cloud

Using native ahead-of-time compilation (AOT) for AWS Lambda

How native ahead-of-time compilation (AOT) can be used to improve the cold start performance of AWS Lambda functions

Feb 27, 2025

Fearless deployments with CodeDeploy

How using CodeDeploy for deployments reduced deployment time by 12x, downtime during deployments by 36x and enabled automatic rollbacks on a failed deployment.

Jul 24, 2024

A beginner's guide to AWS best practices

Starting your cloud development career can be daunting, here's a beginner's guide to some AWS best practices

Dec 12, 2023

How to test serverless applications on AWS

Testing Serverless applications can be difficult, in this post we share some real world advice on where to start!

Nov 02, 2023

6 steps to becoming an AWS Solutions Architect

Looking to become an AWS Solutions Architect Associate? Follow these 6 simple steps and you will be well on your way to passing the exam.

Oct 26, 2023

The pros and cons of working with AWS Amplify

Speed vs Flexibility: What is more important to you and what are you willing to trade so that you can have one over the other?

Oct 18, 2023

How to test step functions locally

A guide on how to test AWS Step Functions as a part of the deployment pipeline.

Apr 26, 2023

Zero to Serverless car insurance - part 3

Part 3 on our series of building a car insurance platform from scratch using serverless technology on AWS.

Apr 18, 2023

Zero to Serverless car insurance - part 2

Part 2 on our series of building a car insurance platform from scratch using serverless technology on AWS.

Apr 11, 2023

Zero to Serverless car insurance - part 1

At the start of 2021 we began an ambitious project, building a car insurance platform from scratch using serverless technology on AWS.

Apr 03, 2023

How to avoid unnecessary NAT usage and reduce your AWS costs

How to reduce your AWS costs by avoiding unnecessary NAT Gateway usage.

Sept 15, 2022

How to pause a Step Function while waiting on a response from a third party API

In this post we explore how you can pause a Step Function, using Task Tokens, while waiting on an external process to be completed

Aug 03, 2022