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Paul Swail

I help companies design & build apps on AWS, particularly those of the serverless variety: https://serverlessfirst.com.

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The Simple Guide to Testing within your Serverless CI/CD Pipelines

The Simple Guide to Testing within your Serverless CI/CD Pipelines

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Integration and E2E tests are the primary confidence drivers for serverless apps

Integration and E2E tests are the primary confidence drivers for serverless apps

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The testing trade-off triangle

The testing trade-off triangle

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Add type definitions to your Lambda functions

Add type definitions to your Lambda functions

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Optimise your Lambda functions using Webpack

Optimise your Lambda functions using Webpack

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Async Initialisation of a Lambda Handler

Async Initialisation of a Lambda Handler

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Give developers their own AWS account

Give developers their own AWS account

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How to access VPC and internet resources from Lambda without paying for a NAT Gateway

How to access VPC and internet resources from Lambda without paying for a NAT Gateway

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Comparing multi and single table approaches to designing a DynamoDB data model

Comparing multi and single table approaches to designing a DynamoDB data model

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How to build a serverless photo upload service with API Gateway

How to build a serverless photo upload service with API Gateway

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Migrating authentication from Express.js to API Gateway using a Lambda Authorizer

Migrating authentication from Express.js to API Gateway using a Lambda Authorizer

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Building CICD pipelines for serverless microservices using the AWS CDK

Building CICD pipelines for serverless microservices using the AWS CDK

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Identifying service boundaries in a monolithic API

Identifying service boundaries in a monolithic API

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Deploying API Gateway as a proxy in front of a legacy API

Deploying API Gateway as a proxy in front of a legacy API

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Routing requests away from a legacy API

Routing requests away from a legacy API

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Migrating a Monolithic SaaS App to Serverless — A Decision Journal

Migrating a Monolithic SaaS App to Serverless — A Decision Journal

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How to set up AWS accounts for multiple product environments

How to set up AWS accounts for multiple product environments

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Serverless Glossary

Serverless Glossary

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What new use cases do the re:Invent 2018 serverless announcements open up?

What new use cases do the re:Invent 2018 serverless announcements open up?

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Schedule emails without polling a database using Step Functions

Schedule emails without polling a database using Step Functions

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Why serverless newbies should use a deployment framework

Why serverless newbies should use a deployment framework

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Back-end Primer for Front-end Web Developers

Back-end Primer for Front-end Web Developers

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Concerns that go away in a serverless world

Concerns that go away in a serverless world

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How to connect to the AWS Console as multiple IAM users at the same time

How to connect to the AWS Console as multiple IAM users at the same time

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The differing definitions of “serverless”

The differing definitions of “serverless”

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Scaling Lambdas inside a VPC

Scaling Lambdas inside a VPC

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Should you be concerned about vendor lock-in when writing FaaS functions?

Should you be concerned about vendor lock-in when writing FaaS functions?

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5 common mistakes deploying Lambda functions

5 common mistakes deploying Lambda functions

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How to calculate the billing savings of moving an EC2 app to Lambda

How to calculate the billing savings of moving an EC2 app to Lambda

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