This is a Go Lambda function that’s packaged and deployed using AWS SAM — Lambda Function URL is a relatively new feature (at the time of writing this blog) that provides a dedicated HTTP(S) endpoint for your Lambda function. It is really useful when all you need is a single endpoint for your function (e.g. to serve as a webhook) and don’t want to…

Deploy a Serverless backend for Slack using Infrastructure-as-code (IaaC) — One of my previous blog post covered how to build a Serverless backend for Slack using by using Lambda Function URL as a webhook. Using AWS Lambda Function URL to build a Serverless backend for Slack A Slack app that integrates with the Giphy APIitnext.io Since I wanted to focus on the application itself, the infrastructure setup part was simplified — using AWS CLI, the function was packaged as a zip…

A Slack app that integrates with the Giphy API — A combination of AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway is a widely-used architecture for serverless microservices and API based solutions. They enable developers to focus on their applications, instead of spending time provisioning and managing servers. API Gateway is a feature rich offering that includes with support for different…

End to end solution for ingesting and analysing IoT data in near real-time — It’s possible to build seamless device-to-cloud experience with the integrations between Azure and Confluent Cloud. The example provided in this blog post showcases how the following capabilities of Azure and Confluent Cloud are leveraged: A fully managed platform for data in motion and self-managed connectors from Confluent

Title says it all! 👆 — This blog post provides a quick overview and demo of how you can use the Azure Cosmos DB Linux Emulator on Docker (in preview at the time of writing) along with Visual Studio Code in order to enhance your local development experience. Since the Azure Cosmos DB Linux Emulator is…

Access your Kubernetes Deployment over the Internet — Say you have a web service running as a Kubernetes Deployment. There are a bunch of ways to access it over a public URL, but Kubexpose makes it easy to do so. It’s a Kubernetes Operator backed by a Custom Resource Definition and the corresponding controller implementation. Kubexpose is built…

With practical examples, learn how to leverage integration between these services for processing data with Apache Spark — Azure Data Explorer is a fully managed data analytics service that can handle large volumes of diverse data from any data source, such as websites, applications, IoT devices, and more. Azure Data Explorer makes it simple to ingest this data and enables you to do complex ad hoc queries on…

Use Azure Key Vault for secure access from Spark pools in Azure Synapse — The Apache Spark connector for Azure SQL Database (and SQL Server) enables these databases to be used as input data sources and output data sinks for Apache Spark jobs. You can use the connector in Azure Synapse Analytics for big data analytics on real-time transactional data and to persist results…

A local dev environment for learning Kafka and Cosmos DB — no cost involved! — Having a local development environment is quite handy when trying out a new service or technology. Docker has emerged as the de-facto choice in such cases. It is especially useful in scenarios where you’re trying to integrate multiple services and gives you the ability to start fresh before each run. …