lambda

Hopper: A container for a loose bulk material such as grain, rock, or rubbish, typically one that tapers downward and is able to discharge its contents at the bottom. A person or thing that hops. A simple pattern I’ve been using lately when working with serverless architecture is what I’ve been calling a hopper, i.e. a Lambda function that takes as argument a path to some semi-structured data that can be iterated over then passed onto another Lambda function with the purpose of performing some well defined and isolated task. [Read More]

An infrastructure piece I’ve been working on over the last fortnight is enforcing tags on resources in the AWS account environment. If you’ve worked in an Amazon account that hosts multiple environments with different resource types and jobs you will know it can quickly become difficult to tell if some resource is necessary or not, it may have been created by another team member and no one remembers if it’s used anymore. [Read More]