The SLAppForge Debugger NodeJS is a toolkit that can be utilized to perform step-through debugging for the Lambda functions executing on live AWS environment, using your own local IDE. This toolkit contains 3 components as below. Lambda Proxy Local Client Broker Server   Getting Started Getting Started The SLAppForge Debugger for NodeJS consists of two end-user visible components. […]

It’s already 3 months into year 2020 and the whole tech world is now embracing serverless computing. According to Nasdaq’s 2020 Tech Trends report, “[serverless computing] is reducing capital costs and shifting the focus to customers’ needs instead of setting up, configuring, patching and maintaining servers in the data center”. Serverless computing can be and […]

Did you know that according to CB Insights, the serverless market is expected to reach from approximately $1.88B in 2016 to $7.72B by 2021, at a compound annual growth rate of 33%? Serverless computing can no longer be called the future of cloud-native, as we are already living in the future. Serverless Adoption is racing […]

Monitoring your serverless application is crucial - especially while it is handling your production load. This brings us to today's topic, how to effectively monitor a serverless application. Serverless = Ephemeral Serverless environments are inherently ephemeral; once the execution completes, you don't have much left behind to investigate. There's so much exciting talk about container […]

Like any other application, continuous testing of serverless applications is essential to ensure the quality of the product. Testing a serverless application is not drastically different from testing a regular application. In traditional application testing, we configure an environment similar to the production environment in the development area and test it. But when dealing with […]

A web based SMS sender can be a very handy tool any developer out there, which can be used for a wide range of use cases such as sending notifications to your application’s users as well as to perform an innocent prank on a friend 😉. With the use of rapidly evolving serverless technologies and […]

Whether we are building a simple to-do list or a complex online banking platform, the security aspect of the application should always be one of our priorities. We should never deploy our application to the production, hoping it will not get hacked. The moment we start drafting our initial plans for the software, we should […]

Serverless security is becoming one really hot topic these days - especially with the ever-growing adoption of serverless computing. Yet, should it really become a developer's nightmare? Can we not simply bake serverless security into our dev-ops lifecycle, sit back, and relax while automated security tooling does the job for us? Can we automate serverless […]

Serverless computing gives scalability, no server management, and cost reduction, with a pay-as-you-go billing model. But adopting serverless technologies may be challenging for you.The big cloud providers’ serverless platforms (Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and IBM Cloud Functions) offer low-level building blocks you can use to design and build serverless architecture development […]

The SLAppForge Debugger for NodeJS consists of two end-user visible components. The first is an AWS Lambda Layer which contains the slappforge-lambda-debug-proxy Node module. The second is a user agent, which executes on the local machine where the favorite IDE runs. The Lambda function connects with the IDE through the SLAppForge Debug Server, and both communication ends […]

Business evolution is happening faster than ever. Enterprises are continuously experimenting with new strategies to outperform their competitors. Choosing AWS over data centres is one such strategic change which most of the organizations are working on to gain significant business value. Building your own data centre and maintaining it is undoubtedly a huge cost and […]

The SLAppForge Debugger for Java consists of two end-user visible components. The first is an AWS Lambda Layer, and the second is a user agent, which executes on the local machine where the favorite IDE runs. The Lambda function connects with the IDE through the SLAppForge Debug Server, and both communication ends are secured with […]

Why is everyone interested in moving to serverless computing? Nowadays the business world is incorporating serverless computing to gain success in many aspects. It offers a path to an environmentally friendly, innovative approach to computing, and various capabilities compared to the existing infrastructures. SLAppForge Sigma is one of the simplest Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) to […]

The “serverless” computing paradigm emerged back in 2014 in Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a new cloud service called Lambda — a serverless computing platform. During the short lifespan of 5 years, AWS Lambda became the most mature FaaS platform to date. Few other vendors like Google Cloud Platform and Azure joined the serverless marathon […]

Technological advancements shouldn’t always be viewed in light of profit and cost. At the rate the world is shifting from deep-fried chicken nuggets to the very boring green salad, the conversations are all shifting towards a greener world which also has a great deal of promotional value. During a time where even the United Nations […]

Serverless application development is one of the trending technologies these days. Thanks to the rapid contribution of the leading cloud service providers, the serverless concept has evolved with a strong base. Most of the enterprises take hand in hand with Serverless for better technological and business advancements. Even though serverless computing has become a turning […]

It’s a matter of identifying the SERVERLESS NEED! As discussed in our previous blog article regarding how to convince your boss to go serverless highlighting the serverless benefits, one might also argue regarding the difficulty in observability, latency, vendor lock-in, and also difficulty in hiring developers who are familiar specifically with serverless technologies. Nevertheless, there […]

The decision to go serverless depends on whether you Think Serverless! If a 50 year old CEO was approached to “Go Serverless” in 2019, most probably the conversion would be a smile. For him it will be nothing but another approval requested by the IT manager who can explain a system minus ROI. Technological advances […]

Have you ever used Serverless Caching? Most probably you would say NO! Certainly, you might not have used it as it is. But, what if I say you have been using it all the time? Yes, it's true. In this article, let's discuss how that can be true. Firstly, let’s look at what is Serverless […]