Articles for Serverless

We’ve recently built a secure data pipeline for a customer called Founders First Capital Partners. They needed to automatically load large amounts of financial data into Salesforce, their CRM, in order to make investment decisions. We used Amazon’s managed data…

I discovered DynamoDB a few months ago, in the context of a very high traffic web application built using the Serverless Framework. DynamoDB - as well as Single-Table design - was fairly new to me, and I quickly noticed that…

I recently worked on a project where we needed to orchestrate a process, applying for loan to be precise, which could take weeks. To do this, we decided on using a serverless architecture and specifically AWS Step functions. The use of…

AWS Step Functions is the perfect tool to handle long-running, complex or business-critical workflows such as payment or subscription flows. However, a naive implementation could put sensitive data at risk. What is AWS Step Functions? AWS Step Functions is an Amazon cloud…

A recent article by the WSJ highlighting the benefits of serverless for organizations points at a building awareness by thought leaders about the impact this new trend can have for companies. It resonates with our own experience, celebrating successful serverless…

Amazon DynamoDB is built to deliver single-digit millisecond performance at any scale. It is built to store Terabytes of data. It is built to support Amazon's Cyber Monday traffic. However, this scalability comes with an overhead. No matter what resource you…

We are proud to have been selected as a Serverless Framework official partner. It rewards our investment in the technology and reflects our strong belief that this framework is currently the best in the market. Using a Framework When Going Serverless…

Since its creation in 2014, AWS' Serverless has delivered by reducing the cost of infrastructure management while increasing speed, agility, and scalability. What is Serverless?“Serverless allows you to build and run applications and services without thinking about servers” — AWSServerless…

At first glance, serverless and web real-time doesn't seem to easily match together. The aim of serverless is to have a very short-lived backend whereas web real-time require to keep an open connection with this backend. We were curious at…

Before building a serverless app, it is important to truly understand how serverless works in AWS and what modules are available and useful for such an architecture. This article is a follow-up to the previous article Understand AWS serverless architecture…