Of late, I have started to pen down summaries of my talks for those not interested in sitting through a 45-min video or staring at slides without getting much context 😅 — Here is one for AWS DevDay Hyderabad 2023 where I spoke about “Simplifying your Kubernetes infrastructure with cdk8s”. CDK for Kubernetes, or cdk8s is an open-source CNCF project that helps represent Kubernetes resources and application as code (not YAML!)

Learn how to take a URL shortener application written using Gin and run it as a serverless AWS Lambda function. — The first part of this series introduced you to the AWS Lambda Go API Proxy, and how its framework/package specific adapter implementations (for gorilla/mux, echo and net/http) allows you to run existing Go applications as AWS Lambda functions fronted by Amazon API Gateway. …

Learn how to run Go REST APIs as Lambda functions using the AWS Lambda Go API Proxy. — The Go programming language has always had rich support for building REST APIs. This includes an excellent standard library (net/http) along with many popular packages such as gorilla mux, Gin, negroni, echo, fiber etc. Thanks to the AWS Lambda Go runtime, you can use Go to build AWS Lambda functions…

There are times you might need to write a custom integration layer to fulfill specific requirements in your data pipeline. Learn how to do this with Kafka and OpenSearch using Go — Scalable data ingestion is a key aspect for a large-scale distributed search and analytics engine like OpenSearch. One of the ways to build a real-time data ingestion pipeline is to use Apache Kafka. It’s an open-source event streaming platform used to handle high data volume (and velocity) and integrates with…

I was recently (July 7, 2023) involved in a discussion around this topic along with other panelists. This was part of a larger event around Empowering Developers to Build Faster and Innovate More. If you are interested in watching, please check out the recording. If not, that’s ok! 😀 I…

Learn how to use Amazon Transcribe and AWS Lambda to build an audio to text conversion application written in Go — In this blog post, you will learn how to build a Serverless speech to text conversion solution using Amazon Transcribe, AWS Lambda and the Go programming language. Audio files uploaded to Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) will trigger a Lambda function which will submit an asynchronous job to Amazon Transcribe…

In this blog post, you will learn how to build a Serverless solution to process images using Amazon Rekognition, AWS Lambda and the Go programming language. …

In this blog post, you will learn how to build a Serverless solution for invoice processing using Amazon Textract, AWS Lambda and the Go programming language. Invoices and expense receipt images uploaded to Amazon S3 will trigger a Lambda function which will extract invoice metadata (ID, date, amount etc.) using…

Want to learn how to auto-scale your Kinesis Data Streams consumer applications on Kubernetes, so you can save on costs and improve resource efficiency? This blog offers a step-by-step guide on how to do just that. By leveraging Kubernetes for auto-scaling Kinesis consumer applications, you can benefit from its built-in…