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How to Remain Agile with DynamoDB

Rob Cronin2 min read

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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…

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Integrating Lambda Layers into your Node.js Lambdas using pre-configured templates

Rob Cronin4 min read

AWS recently released the ability to add layers to your lambda functions. These layers can be standalone code to be reused across multiple lambdas, library dependencies or custom runtimes. This article will go through a setup for the first use case for…

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Prevent Lazy GitHub Practices in 10 minutes using AWS Lambdas

Rob Cronin4 min read

"Can't you name all your pull requests in the right format?""...Oops I just merged into production"Using AWS lambdas can be a cool and useful way to improve your workflow with GitHub. Blocking merges when tests fail on your branch is common,

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