Issue 158 - How to stress test a serverless backend (12)

Load Testing a Webapp's Serverless Backend — Serverless can scale, but no app or function is going to be immediately and infinitely scalable out of the box. Load testing with the sort of traffic you expect for your app is a valuable process and here’s a look at an approach to doing it.

Serverless Web Apps in Python — A practical ‘brain dump’ about what’s involved in deploying Python web apps on AWS Lambda using Zappa, essentially the ‘go to’ tool for working with serverless Python apps.

Debug, Troubleshoot, and Secure Microservices on AWS — Build better software with observability and security into your microservices using serverless functions with Thundra. Boost developer productivity by quickly pinpointing issues with distributed tracing and fix with debugging.

The Challenges of Going Serverless: 2020 Edition — Even if you love ‘pay as you go’ and you don’t miss all that boring ops work, serverless still poses some challenges from unique security risks to vendor lock-in.

Building a Serverless GraphQL API in Node.js with Express and Netlify — A very accessible tutorial that will suit anyone who likes to keep things easy to maintain.

A Guide to Lambda Triggers for Design Patterns — The first in a series of posts that looks at the correlation of ways to trigger serverless functions within common serverless architectural patterns. The aggregator and ‘data lake’ patterns are examined in this outing.

How to Protect Your RDS MySQL DB from AWS Lambda Scalability — Cloud databases can’t necessarily scale as much as your serverless functions can. Luckily, AWS RDS Proxy was recently made GA and helps solve this problem for RDS at least.

How to Use Headless Chromium and Selenium in AWS Lambda — A full height page rendering example written in Python and a ready to use CloudFormation template.

How to Debug AWS Lambda Performance Issues — True serverless hero Yan Cui shares some advice on performance debugging. Naturally, Lumigo comes up as he works there :-)

▶  Accelerating DynamoDB Workflows using Dynobase — A 50 minute podcast chat about using DynamoDB, where DynamoDB shines, and how the (paid) Dynobase DynamoDB GUI client can help.

Serverless-Side Rendering with Lambda@Edge — Lambda@Edge is basically AWS Lambda but at edge locations, courtesy of CloudFront and here’s a (very) high level example of how one company uses it.