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Designing an API on AWS is hard. Designing a reliable API on AWS is even harder. The AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) is an open source framework that makes deploying serverless resources much easier. SAM extends CloudFormation, so you can…

Environment variables are used by nearly every developer. They are great for setting parameters that change based on the environment of the system. Unfortunately, they don’t scale well. Sure, I agree, there are ways to do it, but it isn’t…

Forrest Brazeal, an AWS Serverless Hero who I follow on Twitter, recently tweeted about a #CloudResumeChallenge to build a resume site using AWS. In return, Forrest would use his network to help everyone who completed the challenge land a job.…

I’m not that old, but when I built my first website I manually copied code to an Apache server with FTP. That server was also running in my closet. This deployment process was not exactly full proof, and I experienced…