Year in review, 20242024 was the year I got back and amongst the community, and it felt great to be back!Dec 24, 2024Dec 24, 2024
Published intheburningmonk.comEventBridge best practice: why you should wrap events in event envelopesWhen it comes to building event-driven architectures on AWS, EventBridge has become the de facto service for ingesting, filtering…Nov 6, 2024Nov 6, 2024
Published intheburningmonk.comFine-grained access control in API Gateway with Cognito access token and scopesIn security and access control, authentication and authorization are two distinct yet interconnected concepts.Sep 14, 2024Sep 14, 2024
Published intheburningmonk.comIs it safe to use ID tokens with Cognito authorizers?A common narrative is that one should always use access tokens to call your APIs, while ID tokens are strictly for identifying users.Sep 3, 2024Sep 3, 2024
Published intheburningmonk.comFine-grained access control in API Gateway with Cognito groups & Lambda authorizerIn security and access control, authentication and authorization mean two distinct but related things.Aug 29, 2024Aug 29, 2024
Published intheburningmonk.comWhat’s the best way to do fan-out/fan-in serverlessly in 2024?Back in 2018, I shared [1] several ways to implement fan-out/fan-in with Lambda. A lot has changed since, so let’s explore the solution…Aug 4, 2024Aug 4, 2024
Published intheburningmonk.comI’m sorry, but the way you adopt serverless is wrongThere is often the sense that going serverless means going microservices and event-driven architectures, too.Jul 3, 2024Jul 3, 2024
Published intheburningmonk.comHow to handle execution timeouts in AWS Step FunctionsStep Functions lets you set a timeout on Task states and the whole execution.Apr 21, 20241Apr 21, 20241
Published intheburningmonk.comHow to apply the TDD mindset to serverlessTesting is an integral part of software development. Your tests are a living documentation of your system. They inform others how to use…Apr 9, 2024Apr 9, 2024
Published intheburningmonk.comHere are four ways you can implement WebSockets using serverlessThe myth that “you can’t do WebSockets with serverless” still persists today, even though we have some very good ways to implement…Apr 3, 20241Apr 3, 20241
