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Do Lambdas(AWS) stop making sense after a certain number of functions?

I am working on a project and created multiple lambda functions and now I am thinking about whether I made the correct decision to go this route. Reasons I chose lambda: The App will have spiky ...
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How to manage background jobs in a K8s/Serverless environment

I have a question about .NET, timed backgroundjobs, k8s and serverless functions and the integration with k8s! Currently we have a timed backgroundjobs project which uses quartz.net to schedule jobs. ...
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How to handle backpressure in message queue

I am designing a AWS web service which is going to get 1000 TPS from devices(Android) and it has dependency on multiple downstream services. The usecase is to hit this service periodically from device,...
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Git structure for Azure Function Apps that accounts for shuffling functions

I have a suite of python Azure Function Apps that all together make up an integration, each containing multiple functions: FunApp1 func1 func2 SharedCode FunApp2 func3 func4 SharedCode FunApp3 ...
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AWS Serverless Service to trigger an event when something doesn't happen

I'd like to use some sort of AWS serverless technology to trigger an event when a clickstream stops receiving clicks. Imagine a website visitor clicking around a site. Within our current solution ...
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Kubernetes auto scaling

We are currently in the process of doing an infrastructure overhaul. A bit of background of what our business model currently is: We are an aggregator of bills and payment services for businesses. ...
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Designing an architecture for running multiple scripts

Our company is an aggregator of multiple payment services fragmented on the web. So instead of businesses integrating multiple services one by one, they will only need to integrate to our API, and we ...
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How to build an event sourced system with AWS (Specifically, how to deal with side effects)

So the current setup is a typical event sourced system built on AWS: Lambdas exposed with API Gateway to get the orders (commands), the domain (aggregates) apply some validations after loading the ...
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RESTful URLs for multiple resource in the same Microservice

We are developing a serverless application (AWS API Gateway, Lambda, and Dynamo) keeping users and groups in the same microservice as they are being stored in the same DynamoDB table. REST endpoints ...
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Determining when to use Serverless vs Containerized application (AWS Lambda vs ECS) - Is Java Spring dead?

I work for an organization that heavily leverages AWS. There is a strong push that every team move from containers deployed on ECS to leverage AWS Lambda and step functions for (almost) every project....
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AWS Serverless Microservice design

I am building an open source task management and note taking service that runs on AWS. I'm building it mostly as a hobby in my spare time and will eventually ship a mobile app that consume it into an ...
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Serverless game server architecture

First post on the software engineering stack exchange, I hope the question fits the purpose of this sub. I'm building a serverless game server with the following architecture and was wondering if ...
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pub/sub events to/from microservices in different languages

I'm starting a brand new project implementing microservices with domain driven design. We will have microservices written in different languages like C#, Python, and Node. I'm thinking about hosting ...
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Scheduled AWS Lambda to Update Database via API Call

I'm planning on the following for a use case scenario for AWS Lambda and want to make sure I'm headed in the right direction and that there's not some better/easier solution out there. The database ...
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Confused about AWS dev: How to use React with Python in my lambda functions?

I'm very new to the serverless and backend world. I've been looking at tutorials on youtube and on serverless-stack.com (which is really good btw) and they mostly seem to cover React frontend ...
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Are AWS Lambda functions a good fit for the use case of fetching huge amount of records from database on User request?

We have a use case where an AWS Lambda function is called from AWS API Gateway on user request from the browser, it fetches data from the database and returns back to the client. The amount of time ...
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Deployment pipeline as a component of an application

I am writing a serverless application using AWS SAM. I am wondering, would it be a good idea to include in my template a definition of a CodePipeline (and CodeBuild for that matter) for deploying that ...
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How should AWS Lambda functions subscribe to domain events?

I'm doing my first Domain Driven Design (DDD) implementation. My architecture is comprised of .Net Core for defining my domain model, services, and building AWS Lambda functions. I am using Lambda ...
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JAMstack vs Serverless architecture: what's the difference?

So I've been reading a lot about this new front-end architecture called the JAMstack, which is basically the modern way of building static web applications. Any dynamic pages are pre-built at build ...
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The right way of doing images manipulation in a serverless app

This question is not specific to images, but this is the current issue im having so im using this as an example. So basically, I have some kind of a pipeline that some data(in this case, an image), ...
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What is "serverless mesh"?

I'm familiar with the serverless programming model e.g. GAE and AWS lambda etc. But what is "serverless mesh"? I googled it and found no definition.