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Things I Found Interesting #5

After some time, I accumulated enough articles to share. They are about Cloud, Tech, Programming, and Work, and also include two Games, a petition, and a survey.

Decision Tree: choose the right AWS messaging service

Have you ever been stuck deciding between SQS, SNS, Kinesis Streams, and EventBridge? Struggled to pick the right one for your use case? If the answer is “yes”, I’ve got you covered with a simple decision tree to help you make the right decision.

AWS

Personal backup to Amazon S3 – cheap and easy

In need to backup my personal files in the cloud, I wrote a script that archives the data into the Amazon S3 bucket. After some fine-tuning and solving a bunch of edge-cases, it’s limited mainly by the disk read and my internet upload speed. And it costs me only $3.70 per TiB per month.

AWS

6 Common Pitfalls of AWS Lambda with Kinesis Trigger

The simplicity of setting up a Kinesis trigger for a Lambda function may be deceptive. There are pitfalls that can cause problems we will spot only later, in the production environment. I learned about some of them the hard way, so let’s say I speak from the experience.

Things I Found Interesting

Things I Found Interesting #4

Two articles about the Blockchain on today’s list. Both are not in favor, I’m afraid. Apart from this, some Tools, Work thoughts and advice, and again an article so weird I couldn’t categorize it.

AWS

Headless CMS with Gatsby on AWS for $0.00 per month

Can you have a website with a CMS on AWS and not pay just for its existence? I looked at Amazon Lightsail, headless WordPress, and Webiny CMS but found none of those suitable. So I choose Prismic – a SaaS headless CMS, and Gatsby to create the site. Yes, I needed to make a pipeline to build my website after content changes. But when I did it, I got a website with CMS hosted at no cost.

AWS

Choosing between SQS, SNS, Kinesis, and EventBridge

AWS can overwhelm with the number of services. Especially if multiple services seem to do a very similar job. Let’s look at the cloud-native AWS messaging services – the SQS, SNS, Kinesis, and EventBridge. What are the differences and when to use which one?

Things I Found Interesting

Things I Found Interesting #3

Here we are again, with selected content from all over the internet about Tools, Tech, Cloud, Programming, Work, and a single article I couldn’t categorize. Probably because I’m still in shock after reading it.

Uncategorized

Don’t help others (immediately)

I know my coworkers and teammates are reading this, and probably my boss as well. But let’s risk it.

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AWS Lambda performance optimization

There are two reasons to optimize AWS Lambda functions performance. First is money – you pay for the Lambda execution duration. The quicker you do the job, the less you pay. The second is latency – the quicker you do the job, the shorter your client waits for the result. It’s a known fact that the decrease of latency improves sales, user engagement, and client satisfaction – so we could argue it’s also the money, in the end.

Serverless on AWS