ravipatel.cloudBuilding Production-Ready GraphQL APIs with AWS AppSyncREST APIs were great. Until your mobile app needed 14 endpoints to render a single screen. Until frontend developers started complaining about overfetching. Until you realized you're basically rebuilding GraphQL, poorly. AWS AppSync is a fully manage...Dec 13, 2025·8 min read
ravipatel.cloudServerless Observability with AWS Lambda Powertools and CloudWatchYour Lambda function failed at 3 AM. Your production environment is down. You need to go through 347 CloudWatch log streams. The error is "An error occurred." This is the entire error message. Ring any bells? This is where traditional logging stops b...Nov 13, 2025·7 min read
ravipatel.cloudAWS SAM vs CDK: Choosing the Right IaC Tool for Serverless in 2025"Which one should I use: SAM or CDK?" I've been asked this question approximately 847 times (give or take). The answer? It depends. But not in the frustrating consultant way-in the "each tool solves different problems" way. Let's settle this once and...Oct 17, 2025·7 min read
ravipatel.cloudDynamoDB Streams and Lambda: Building Real-Time Data PipelinesYour application just hit 100,000 users. Congratulations! Now product wants real-time analytics, cross-region replication, and event-driven notifications. Oh, and they need it yesterday. Welcome to the world of change data capture (CDC). Traditional ...Sep 19, 2025·6 min read
ravipatel.cloudCost Optimization Strategies for AWS Serverless Applications in 2025Serverless promised “pay only for what you use.” Then your AWS bill arrived, and it turns out you are using a lot more than you thought. Hidden Lambda invocations, noisy logs, and inefficient memory settings can quietly eat your budget. This post wal...Aug 14, 2025·6 min read
