Load Testing Serverless Applications With Serverless Artillery

Load testing is an important part when you are designing any type of application, whether it is traditional EC2 based or container-based or a complete serverless application. Why is Load Testing important? Load testing will help us to find the following - How fast is the system - How much load can the system handle - Under what conditions will the system fail - Determine our application’s capabilities by measuring its response time, throughput, CPU utilization, latency, etc....

April 13, 2020 · 5 min · Vishnu Prasad

URL redirects with AWS S3 and Cloudfront

Hosting a static website with S3 is awesome! It is Faster, Cheaper, Zero maintenance. In this article, we will see how to do URL redirects on a website hosted with AWS S3 and Cloudfront. There was a scenario which I was faced once in my company, One of our websites had deleted some old content and replaced it with new content and URL. And when people who google search for that particular content they get the old URL which doest exists....

January 28, 2020 · 2 min · Vishnu Prasad

Automating Deployment Of Lambda Functions Using Serverless Framework, AWS CodePipeline

In this guide we will set up a very simple REST API endpoint with the serverless framework, AWS Lambda, and API Gateway and deploy it to AWS Lambda with Github, AWS Codepipeline, Codebuild 1. Install the Serverless Framework npm install serverless -g 2. Create a project serverless create --template aws-nodejs --path serverless-nodejs-api This will create two files handler.js and serveless.yml 'use strict'; module.exports.api = async event => { return { statusCode: 200, body: JSON....

January 1, 2020 · 4 min · Vishnu Prasad