I'm Andres Moreno, Principal Software Architect at Caylent. I focus on serverless techonology in AWS
Learn what's needed to trigger the HTTP endpoint task state from a Step Function to be able to eliminate the Lambda Functions you have to call APIs
Benoit Boure wrote an article last week on Calling External Endpoints With Step Functions and the CDK, but if you know me I love SAM and wanted to show the same setup but instead of using CDK we will be using SAM.
Follow these 3 steps to update your Common JS Lambda Functions to ECMAScript Modules (ESM)
Version 5.0.0 of the @middy/core package no longer supports Common JS in favor of ECMAScript Modules (ESM). ESM improves performance by 2X as mentioned in this post. Seeing this change prompted me to investigate what needs to be updated to get Lambda functions to be ESM to not fall behind on my dependency versions. In this post, we’ll go through the 3 steps needed to go from Common JS to ESM.
Learn how you can use custom templates with SAM to speed up initial application setup.
As you start setting patterns and best practices within your projects at some point you will want to share these to simplify the lives of other developers.
SAM allows you to initialize projects by using the init command and selecting a template for your project. SAM has built-in templates to generate simple Hello-World starter projects (you can find the list of templates here). These will help you get started and get familiar with how to structure your serverless applications but as your…
Learn how to setup locally to run the AWS SDK using SSO and named profiles
When using Access Keys I got used to setting the default profile in my credentials file and it worked just fine. When I began having to manage more accounts and switched to SSO, updating the default profile becomes more of a pain. I will show you a couple of ways to authenticate the SDK using named profiles.
Testing secure APIs through automation can be a pain. Thankfully Portman provides an easy way to include authentication in your test automation.
When creating an API you want to have security to avoid bad usage and incurring cost by unintended use. Whenever we add a security layer to our APIs any automation that we have around it automatically becomes more complex. Portman provides ways to configure authentication to be used when it runs. In this post we will configuring Portman to successfully run against our secure API.
