This blog post is for folks interested in learning how to use Golang and AWS Lambda to build a serverless solution. You will be using the aws-lambda-go library along with the AWS Go SDK v2 for an application that will process records from an Amazon Kinesis data stream and store…

With the managed runtime for Go — In this blog post you will learn how to run a Go application to AWS App Runner using the Go platform runtime. You will start with an existing Go application on GitHub and deploy it to AWS App Runner. …

A previous blog post covered how to deploy a Go Lambda function and trigger it in response to events sent to a topic in a MSK Serverless cluster. This blog will take it a notch further. The solution consists of a MSK Serverless cluster, a producer application on AWS App…

In this blog post you will learn how to deploy a Go Lambda function and trigger it in response to events sent to a topic in a MSK Serverless cluster. The following topics have been covered: How to use the franz-go Go Kafka client to connect to MSK Serverless using…

Learn with practical code examples — The DynamoDB Scan API accesses every items in a table (or secondary index). It is the equivalent of a select * from query. One of the things I will cover in this blog is how to use Scan API with the DynamoDB Go SDK. To scan a table, we need…

Learn with practical code samples — DynamoDB provides a rich set of data types, including Strings, Numbers, Sets, Lists, Maps etc. In the Go SDK for DynamoDB, the types package contains Go representations of these data types and the attributevalue module provides functions to work with Go and DynamoDB types. This blog post…

In an earlier blog post you saw how to use cdk8s with AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (also known as ACK), thanks to the fact that you can import existing Kubernetes Custom Resource Definitions using cdk8s! …

Deploy DynamoDB and a client app using cdk8s along with AWS Controller for Kubernetes — AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (also known as ACK) are built around the Kubernetes extension concepts of Custom Resource and Custom Resource Definitions. You can use ACK to define and use AWS services directly from Kubernetes. …

Redis related best practices, tips and tricks including cluster scalability, client side configuration, integration, metrics — Its hard to operate stateful distributed systems at scale and Redis is no exception. Managed databases make life easier by taking on much of the heavy lifting. But you still need a sound architecture and apply best practices both on the server (Redis) as well as client (application).