CloudTrail is an amazing source of data, rich with API call history, allowing us to monitor who is attempting to do what within our AWS accounts. However, it isn’t all sunshine and rainbows. As every call is logged (including assumption of role, switching of roles and even creation of a log stream), we end up with a lot of logging … Read More
Secure your Serverless project’s endpoints with AWS Certificate Manager
Here at GorillaStack we’ve been using LetsEncrypt to issue SSL certificates for custom domains on AWS’s API Gateway for all our Serverless projects. While we love this service, securing a custom domain for API Gateway required a time consuming, manual process to be repeated every time a certificate expired. That’s why we were so excited by the recent announcement of … Read More
AWS Lambda Adds IteratorAge Metric for Improved Processing Operations Visibility
AWS Lambda just got a bit better thanks to IteratorAge. If you’ve ever read the GorillaStack blog, you’re likely well-versed on many of AWS Lambda’s many use cases. Of particular interest in the context of Amazon’s latest announcement is the way in which the compute service works in tandem with CloudWatch. Lambda can assist in monitoring functions and reporting metrics … Read More
Serverless Framework & Local Development Environments
The Serverless framework is awesome and we love working with it! We even used it to build a Serverless Hipchat Bot. Side note: you can check out our Serverless HipChat Bot boilerplate repository. However, we quickly found that the feedback loop in development was really slow – every time we wanted to test a change, we had to deploy to … Read More
Serverless HipChat Connect Boilerplate by GorillaStack
Have you ever wanted to try out a full serverless architecture? Or write a HipChat plug-in? The new open source boilerplate from GorillaStack helps developers deploy the back ends for their plugins to Amazon Web Services’ serverless products in Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB and S3. Atlassian, together with Amazon Web Services, engaged GorillaStack to develop an open source bolierplate repository … Read More
Serverless Framework & Lambda: A Match Made in Heaven
One thing that I have always been keen to get from AWS Lambda is configurable environment variables that can be set for each indivudual Lambda function. One thing I loved about the Serverless framework is that it supports a notion of environment variables, stored in a hidden ‘_meta’ folder and substituted in when the functions are deployed to Lambda. On … Read More
AWS Lambda – Some Important Changes I’d Like To See
Recently we updated our open source project Auto Tag, a Lambda function that listens to CloudTrail to tag your AWS resources with their creator after they are created. When updating, I noticed that a month ago, AWS released a Node v4.3.2 runtime for AWS Lambda. I was super excited! Previously we were using babel to transpile our es6 source code … Read More
8 Things We Learned at the AWS Sydney Summit
We were excited to have the opportunity to share GorillaStack with everyone at Sydney’s first 2 day AWS Summit. The Summit demonstrated the need for AWS Cost Optimisation. Talks such as “Business: Cost Optimisation at Scale” from Evan Crawford at Amazon Web Services amplified this customer demand. And yes, that is gorillas.bas running in the background (check out our version … Read More
Epilogue: Eliminate Server Overhead With Open Source Lambda Hack
We wrote in our open source aws lambda blog post on the 27th of February about the then recent support for Lambda functions that access resources within a VPC. Our perspective on that announcement is that serverless computation is becoming more appropriate and accessible for enterprise and can be adopted in more use cases. One of the issues we highlighted … Read More
Eliminate Server Overhead With This AWS Lambda Hack
Does your organisation run batch jobs? I think I’d be hard pressed to find one that didn’t. Is the infrastructure running these batch jobs always on and highly available? Chances are you are spending a lot of money for servers that aren’t always active. AWS Lambda is Amazon Web Services’ serverless execution offering, where customers can upload code, specify an … Read More
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