Tweet A while back we looked at the performance difference between the language runtimes AWS Lambda supports natively. AWS Lambda – comparing platform performances We intentionally omitted coldstart time from that experiment as we were interested in performance differences when a function is “warm”. However, coldstart is still an important performance consideration, so let’s take

I am very excited to be helping with the inaugural Detroit.Code conference here in July 2017.  In fact all of us that work on the DetroitDevDay conference are very excited about this new conference.  We all support growing the metro Detroit software development community and this is another great step in growing that community. (Full […]

I’ve updated the Chocolatey NuGet (CNG) packages for Elixir, Erlang and Rebar.  If you’re unfamiliar with CNG it’s analogous to apt-get on Ubuntu or yum/dnf on Fedora except it’s for Windows. The Elixir (v1.4.4) and Erlang (v19.3) are already visible and ready for download.  The Rebar (v3.4.1) is still in the approval process but should […]

Tweet TL;DR – The no. of partitions in a DynamoDB table goes up in response to increased load or storage size, but it never come back down, ever. DynamoDB is pretty great, but as I have seen this particular problem at 3 different companies – Gamesys, JUST EAT, and now Space Ape Games – I think

Tweet Having previously blogged about the untrodden path to enable caching on API Gateway request parameters in the Serverless framework 0.5.X, it’s a little disappointing that it’s still not officially fixed in the 1.X versions… The Problem The problem is two-fold: there’s currently no way to specify caching should be enabled for path & query