Articles by Tag #serverless
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How I Made an MCP Server That Saves Me an Hour per Week
Recently, I’ve been travelling around the country to help engineers learn how to build MCP Servers...
The Trials and Tribulations of Counting Visitors in the Cloud Resume Challenge
This summer, I wanted to challenge myself to go hands-on with AWS. I had been working with cloud...
Why Edge Computing Forced Me to Write Better Code (And Why That's the Future)
Two articles hit my feed this week that got me thinking: Simon Willison's piece on delivering proven...
Is this code deterministic?
I recently posted a small code snippet in a LinkedIn poll and asked what sounded like a simple...
Building an MCP Server on AWS Lambda: Complete Serverless Architecture Guide
Introduction Over the past few months, I've been working on something that fundamentally...
Fully-Typed HTTP Router for AWS Lambda with Middy and Zod
When I needed to add a couple of REST endpoints to a serverless project, I faced the age-old debate:...
AWS Serverless: Still the Boring Correct Choice
In the last 6 months, I've helped 3 AI startups migrate from Vercel or Cloudflare to AWS Lambda. The...
The Myth of ‘Just Connect Lambda to RDS’
You and I often see blogs about “connecting your Lambda to RDS is as simple as”... Often will see...
I Replaced a Docker-based Microservice with WebAssembly and It's 100x+ Faster
TL;DR We've all heard the quote from Docker's founder, Solomon Hykes, back in 2019: "If WASM+WASI...
Building a Serverless Data Analytics Pipeline with AWS: Premier League Dashboard
Inspired by AWS Cookbook by John Culkin & Mike Zazon - Chapter 7: Big Data My...
I Spent $12 on 4 AI Questions. Then Linux Foundation Made MCP Official.
I asked OpenAI's Assistants API four simple questions about a PDF document. The bill? $12.47. Not per...
Open Source Serverless Product Analytics on AWS
Product analytics shouldn't require managing servers, containers, or complex infrastructure. Yet most...
I Created CFMan, Cloudflare Wrangler Multi Account Manager
Hey folks 👋 So… I built a little thing called CFMan — short for Cloudflare Manager. If you’ve ever...
Serverless vs Kubernetes: The Final Showdown - Why we decided to hold this talk and where to go from here
reflections on the debate Serverless vs Kubernetes and the talk that we brought at several conferences this year.
Hosting a Minecraft Server on Cloudflare Containers
Introduction This project runs a Minecraft server on stateless Cloudflare Containers. ...
AWS re:Invent 2025: 3 Announcements That Matter for Your Architecture
AWS re:Invent 2025 dropped a lot of announcements. Most won't change how you build. Three...
Stop Writing Step Functions by Hand
If you've worked with Step Functions at any real scale, you know the concept is great — orchestrate...
Building an Intelligent Document Processing Pipeline with AWS: A Journey from Idea to Production
TL;DR - Want to Skip the Story? Fork the repo, deploy in 10 minutes, start processing...
I Built an AI Teacher's Assistant with AWS Serverless & Terraform — Here's the Journey.
Hey Dev Community! Every developer loves a good side project, but the most rewarding ones are those...
Edge Rendering — Because Apparently the Server Wasn’t Close Enough
Remember the days when “faster websites” just meant compressing images and yelling at the intern who...
I Built an On‑Demand Minecraft Host on AWS Fargate to Stop Paying Monthly Fees
An on-demand Minecraft hosting platform on AWS Fargate that scales compute to zero, persists worlds on EFS, and maps per-task public IPs to Route 53 DNS for a stable join address.
Introducing Cloud Rover. Turn Cloudflare Workers into Fully Functional Backends.
Last year I was looking for serverless solutions for building apps without having to manage servers...
Building 10q10k.net: A Financial Visualization Platform Running Entirely on Cloudflare's Edge
TL;DR 10q10k.net is a financial data platform covering all S&P 500 companies. It...
Firecracker Virtualization Overview
Firecracker is an open source virtualization technology created by Amazon Web Services (AWS) which...
How to Actually Lock Down Your Cloud Run Services (Not Just Pretend To)
(Namaste)! 🙏 The Problem We're Solving You've built something awesome on Google Cloud...
How when AWS was down, we were not
🚨 AWS us-east-1 is down! One of the most massive AWS incidents transpired on October...
Arquitectura Serverless en GCP con Terraform: Cómo ahorré costos y sobreviví al "State Drift"
La historia de cómo conecté Cloud Run con Cloud SQL usando IP privada sin pagar el conector...
The serverless lie: Why i refuse to default to next js
Now if you are a developer you have surely come across a little corner of the internet named "tech...
📡 WebSocket API in AWS API Gateway – Real-time Magic Explained
Namaste Developers! 🙏 Are you fed up with polling APIs every few seconds? Desire real-time updates...
Modernizing a file processing service using Google Cloud Workflows and Cloud Run
TL;DR: Moving a monolithic service took me from several hours of runtime on big batches of heavy...