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This blog is where IT professionals all over the World find hands-on ready to use solutions for AWS cloud.

What is Serverless computing

By the end of this article, you’ll know everything you need to know about Serverless computing. Here covered terminology, concepts, technologies, and so much more! Become an expert in the most demanding technology area nowadays in a few minutes! What Does Serverless Mean Whenever we’re calling the application “serverless”, we usually mean that we have:

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Reading time: 11 mins

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[The Ultimate Guide] - AWS Lambda Real-world use-cases

This article is very useful if you are willing to get a quick overview of possible AWS Lambda use cases. Every use-case contains a link to a resource with more information. Processing of uploaded to Amazon S3 files Every time you upload something to the Amazon S3 bucket, it can notify AWS Lambda about that.

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AWS Step Functions - How to manage long running tasks

Managing and orchestrating multiple automation activities in the cloud may be a challenging task. In the article Cloud CRON - Scheduled Lambda Functions, we covered how to create and manage simple automation activities in the AWS cloud. By the term “simple,” we mean any tasks running no longer than 15 minutes (see AWS Lambda quotas).

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Terraform recipe – Managing Auto Scaling Groups & Load Balancers

Update: 2020 Oct, Terraform code updated to support newer syntax. As soon as you learn how to manage basic network infrastructure in AWS using Terraform (see “Terraform recipe – Managing AWS VPC – Creating Public Subnet” and “Terraform recipe – Managing AWS VPC – Creating Private Subnets“) , you definitely want to start creating auto-scalable infrastructures.

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Terraform recipe - Managing AWS VPC - Creating Public Subnet

One of the essential tasks of your cloud infrastructure management is managing your VPC’s networks. In this article, we’ll learn how to declare the most commonly used configuration: Public subnet In the Terraform recipe - Managing AWS VPC - Creating Private Subnets, we’ll extend this infrastructure by adding a private subnet to our VPC.

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Terraform recipe - Managing AWS VPC - Creating Private Subnets

In the previous article (Terraform recipe – Managing AWS VPC – Creating Public Subnet), we’ve used Terraform to create a VPC, Internet Gateway, and Route Table to form Public Subnet. Also, we’ve tested our configuration by SSH-ing to the instance, which we’ve launched in our Public Subnet.

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Terraform recipe - How to create AWS ElasticSearch cluster

From this recipe, you’ll learn how to create the AWS ElasticSearch cluster in VPC using Terraform. The source code is available in my GitHub repository. Updates (Oct 2020): Updated Terraform code to support newer version syntax. VPC deployment added Three subnet HA ElasticSearch cluster ElasticSearach version upgrade to version 7.

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8 Serverless Anti-Patterns To Avoid

There’re so many articles on the internet, which show how you can use AWS Lambda in multiple different ways, but not too many of them covering what you should not do. So in this article, I’ll point your attention to the most common ani-pattens of using AWS Lambda.

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Building Thumbnails And GIFs Generator Using Lambda And FFmpeg

Not too far ago, somebody asked me to help put FFmpeg inside Lambda function and build a video processing API prototype. This article will show you how to make all those integrations and build a completely serverless API for generating thumbnails and gif images from uploaded video files.

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