Seth Orell articles - 18 total
Serverless Is Not A Primary
I love serverless. With it, I help teams deliver value quickly, without the need to spend time...
How to Crater Your Database, Part Five - Summary
Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four Part Five <- We are at the end of this whirlwind tutorial...
How to Crater Your Database, Part Four - Consistency
Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four <- Part Five Intro At first, life was simple....
How to Crater your Database, Part Three - Normalization
Part One Part Two Part Three <- Part Four Part Five So far In the first two articles in...
How to Crater Your Database, Part Two - Aggregations
Part One Part Two <- Part Three Part Four Part Five Plot spoiler As I mentioned in the...
How to Crater Your Database, Part One - An Introduction
Part One <- Part Two Part Three Part Four Part Five I've worked with lots of engineers who never...
Testing AppSync Subscriptions
AppSync has three types of GQL operations: Queries, Mutations, and Subscriptions. These operations...
Simplicity Is An Achievement
Look at those two remote controllers. Are they familiar? I used a multi-button, universal remote for...
Testing EventBridge with Serverless
If you are building serverless, event-driven architectures, you should know about AWS EventBridge. It...
Everything Suffers from Cold Starts
I pitch Lambda all the time. It's an amazing service that scales--in real-time--up to tens of...
Testing AWS AppSync JavaScript Resolvers
"What could be easier than testing a JavaScript file?" That's what I asked myself when I began...
Going Pro
Take your career seriously. I've encountered many engineers who don't. They only think about...
AppSync CloudFormation Scaling Revisited
Some years back, I was building an AppSync API with a few other engineers. None of us had GQL...
Serverless Doesn't Stand Still
Last month, I read an article from Max Rohde titled "Death by Cloud or How to Build Brittle Systems"....
AWS Credentials for Serverless
AWS is a zero-trust platform1. That is, every call to AWS must provide credentials so that the caller...
A Continuous Delivery Press Release
Sometimes even your best ideas will fail to persuade. You can have evidence, examples, and...
Why DynamoDB Is (Still) My First Pick for Serverless
I recently participated in some discussions on where should a team put their data for new, serverless...
Better GitHub AWS Secrets with OIDC
The Setup One topic came up over and over on my recent AWS Solutions Architect exam: IAM...