One Bite of Real-world Serverless: Controlling an EC2 with Lambda, API Gateway and Sigma
I have been developing and blogging about Sigma, the world’s first serverless IDE for serverless developers – but haven’t really been using it for my non-serverless work. That was why, when a (somewhat) peculiar situation came up recently, I decided to give Sigma a full-scale spin. The Situation: a third party needs to control one of our EC2 instances Our parent company AdroitLogic, […]
Serverless File Uploader with AWS HTTP Gateway and S3
Why do we need a File Uploader? When you are working as an engineer for a software development company, it is apparent that you have to troubleshoot issues reported by the users of your software. In such a case, more often than not, you need to get various types of files from your customer for […]
Adding DynamoDB to Alexa, Testing code changes in 3 seconds and Live debugging
Part 3: Using other AWS services such as DynamoDB This is an article that continues from the Building an Alexa Skill in 5 minutes with NodeJS or Python without installing any software!, and followed by either the Creation of the AWS Lambda function backend for Alexa with NodeJS or Creation of the AWS Lambda function […]
Building an Alexa Skill in 5 minutes with NodeJS or Python without installing any software!
The Sigma IDE has added Alexa skill development support that makes skill development in NodeJS or Python a breeze! This post includes the tutorial walk-through for the YouTube video which you can find below. Getting Started The following lists the prerequisites, and the links to register for them if you do not have them. None […]
Creation of the AWS Lambda function backend for Alexa with Python
Part 2: Creation of the AWS Lambda function backend For this section, we assume that you have created a free account to use the Sigma IDE and configured your AWS credentials into the IDE. Note that you can register for a free AWS account, and use its Free Tier to develop this exercise, and utilize […]
Creation of the AWS Lambda function backend for Alexa with NodeJS
Part 2: Creation of the AWS Lambda function backend For this section, we assume that you have created a free account to use the Sigma IDE and configured your AWS credentials into the IDE. Note that you can register for a free AWS account, and use its Free Tier to develop this exercise, and utilize […]
Alexa Skill with Lambda function in Python and DynamoDB
Overview This post will show how to build a simple Alexa skill in Python, and how the use of the browser based Sigma IDE will help in the development of Lambda functions, especially in deploying code changes to live AWS in about 3 seconds, and allowing drag-and-drop code generation for AWS resource access, such as DynamoDB. […]
No more shopping cart abandonment on your online store!
Doing the right thing at the right time in the right way makes things easier. Choosing the right solution makes even a difficult task simpler. Serverless is one such choice made by most of the companies for a better experience. Serverless can be the answer for most of the sales and marketing problems like booking […]
Why do you need to move on to Serverless?
Serverless has been gaining more and more traction over the last few years, and people are moving on to serverless more frequently. In the beginning of 2017 the serverless architecture market was valued at USD 3.20 billion and, with an expected Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 23.83%, is expected to reach USD 9.16 billion by […]
Deploying a Serverless Express REST API in 10 minutes
If you are a Node.js developer or you’ve built an API with Node.js, there’s a good chance you have used Express.js. Express is one of the most popular Node.js frameworks. It provides lightweight, powerful tools for HTTP servers. It’s a great framework for single-page apps, websites, hybrids, or public HTTP APIs. For example, the simplest […]
Debugging AWS Lambda functions in Node JS using VS Code
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. […]
3 Things to consider when designing a Serverless API
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 […]
Investing in Serverless Technology: Is it a trend or a requirement?
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 […]
Serverless Monitoring: What do we Monitor when the Server Goes Away?
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 […]
Testing Serverless Applications Like a Pro
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 […]
Building a serverless SMS sender in 10 minutes
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 […]
Serverless Security risks and how to mitigate them
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 […]
5 tips to manage serverless security – while coding at full steam
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 […]
Why Sigma is the best Serverless Tool for 2020?
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 […]