Your Lambda Is Running, But Are You Actually Seeing the Problems?There's a particular kind of silence that should terrify every engineer running serverless workloads. It's the silence of a dashboard full of green. Invocations: normal. Duration: normal. Errors: zeroMay 25 · 5 min readpracticalserverless.blog
How I Test Serverless Applications Without Going InsaneTesting serverless isn't hard. Testing serverless well is a different story. After years of building Lambda-based systems, I've seen the full spectrum: no tests at all, tests that mock everything and 1May 6 · 9 min readpracticalserverless.blog
Your Lambda Was Correct. It Was Also a Disaster.If you don't know yet, I have a book published about serverless, and this weekend, I got a message from a reader. He'd been looking at From Zero to Production with AWS Lambda and had a sharp observatiApr 22 · 6 min readpracticalserverless.blog
Lambda isn't always the answerYes, this is a serverless blog and obviously the main objective here is to spread the serverless word, and make people feel more comfortable to use it. But still, we are talking about technology, and Apr 15 · 5 min readpracticalserverless.blog
How I Built a Serverless Testing Library That Cuts Test Setup by 90%Every Lambda test starts the same way: you need an event object — and crafting one is annoying. API Gateway v2 events have 30+ fields, SQS needs message IDs, receipt handles, and ARNs, and DynamoDB St123AApr 8 · 8 min readpracticalserverless.blog
