Lambda

Lambda@Edge allows you to run your own business logic as part of the CloudFront request flow. You can intercept all requests that arrive at CloudFront, all connections to the origin and the responses from the origin and to the client. Lambda@Edge functions come with a series of constraints that make them different from regular Lambda functions, but also a lot of commonalities. One of these is the concurrency quota, which you should check before a production deployment. ...

Interacting with Cloud services is rarely a tactile experience. You write some code, run some command or click a button on a screen and things happen. Today we’re going to change that. We’ll write a plugin for the Elgato Stream Deck to trigger an AWS Lambda function on demand with a customizable event. In case you haven’t heard of it, the Stream Deck is basically a set of buttons with tiny screens behind them that you can customize to do your bidding through plugins. Today, we’ll write a small plugin that invokes a Lambda function of our choosing, thereby allowing us to do pretty much anything in AWS. ...

Lambda@Edge functions are executed in multiple regions around the world, but which ones exactly? In this post we’ll find out together, which will enable us to pre-create log groups and other resources for them.

Like many organizations, tecRacer uses HubSpot as a CRM. Integrating Hubspot with other (internal) systems enables smooth workflows for everyone involved. Since I recently built a custom integration, I thought it may be helpful to explain how to set up a secure interface with AWS.