As serverless is being used more and more to build ‘real’ applications and not only used to execute small tasks, the need for monitoring becomes even more important. However, when using a serverless architecture most of the tools and practices we used when working with servers and containers are not applicable anymore.
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For some time now it is possible to add Layers to a Lambda function which allows you to use additional libraries and dependencies in your functions without the need to include these in your deployment pacakge. This is for instance very convenient when using Cloudformation to manage your Lambda functions. In most cases this means you can simply point to a single file instead of creating a deployment package each time.
Read moreFor some time now I wanted to start blogging again for several reasons. One of them is that I frequently build interesting things on AWS, discover a new open source tool or just experiment with technology and never really keep some kind of documentation for later reference.
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