Building Evolua, an AI-powered code reviewer, taught us a lot about balancing cost, performance, and developer experience. While selecting the right LLM and crafting prompts is important, the real challenge lies in handling large PRs, mitigating model lim[...]

The ability to invalidate a user's session with immediate effect is a common enterprise requirement. However, this goes against how token-based authentication is designed to work. JWT tokens are stateless and are typically short-lived (for security reason[...]

Here is the biggest mistake many teams make when they try to adopt serverless and why they ultimately fail. Don't make the same mistake. The post I’m sorry, but the way you adopt serverless is wrong appeared first on theburningmonk.com.

AppSync now supports invoking Lambda resolvers asynchronously. This simplifies a common challenge in GenAI applications where we had to hand off the call to the LLM to a background function so we can stream the LLM response back to the caller. The post Ap[...]

Step Functions lets you set a timeout on both Task states and the whole execution. By default, an execution can run for a year if TimeoutSeconds is not configured. To a user, the execution would appear as “stuck”. Which is why AWS best practices recommend[...]

A month ago, I shared how I built an affiliate tracking system in a weekend [1]. Since then, I’ve enhanced the system by integrating analytics reporting, enabling affiliates to gauge the performance of their URLs. In this post, I will describe how the sys[...]

The Serverless Framework remains a top choice for serverless development, as evidenced by the recent State of Serverless report [1]. Yet, its appeal has waned over time due to the lack of innovation in recent years, prompting users to explore other option[...]

Sharing code efficiently across different parts of an application can be challenging with AWS Lambda, especially when using Amplify. Today, I’ll walk you through a solution to this common problem, without relying on Lambda Layers or private NPM repositori[...]

Having taught thousands of students to build serverless applications via my online courses and workshops, I felt it was time to kick-start an affiliate program to boost sales. Affiliates would receive 50% of the revenue and get a 15% discount code for the[...]

It’s a good practice to use CloudFormation’s DeletionPolicy to protect stateful resources such as DynamoDB tables or RDS databases from accidental deletions. Such as when someone accidentally deletes a CloudFormation stack! As I discussed previously [1], [...]