Paul Swail

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

Belfast, N.Ireland Joined on Aug 9, 2018 https://serverlessfirst.com

Paul Swail

Mar 29 '21

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

#serverless #aws #testing #devops

10 min read

Re:Invent Yourself and Your Company With Serverless

This is a really useful compilation, Matt. Thank you!

Mar 27 '20

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

Hi Marcin. I think that is valid. I also think the newly a...

Dec 1 '19

Building CICD pipelines for serverless microservices using the AWS CDK

Hey Dmytro, I covered my gripes with the CloudFormation dev...

Apr 10 '19

Building CICD pipelines for serverless microservices using the AWS CDK

I found the CDK to be quite powerful. I mentioned my issues...

Apr 9 '19

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

Hey Kyle. Glad you're enjoying it. Very good point about l...

Mar 22 '19

Migrating a Monolithic SaaS App to Serverless — A Decision Journal

Thanks Eoin. When I first heard about AWS launching Docum...

Mar 9 '19

How a Monolith Architecture Can Be Transformed into Serverless

Great article, Kyle! I'm about to start down the road of mi...

Mar 1 '19

Serverless Glossary

That's a fair point, Ernestas. As I mentioned, my experienc...

Feb 21 '19

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Paul Swail

Oct 27 '20

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

#serverless #aws #testing

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5 min read

Paul Swail

Oct 14 '20

The testing trade-off triangle

#serverless #aws #testing

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5 min read

Paul Swail

Mar 20 '20

Add type definitions to your Lambda functions

#serverless #aws #lambda #typescript

2 min read

Paul Swail

Mar 13 '20

Optimise your Lambda functions using Webpack

#serverless #aws #lambda #node

3 min read

Paul Swail

Mar 6 '20

Async Initialisation of a Lambda Handler

#serverless #aws #lambda #node

3 min read

Paul Swail

Feb 7 '20

Give developers their own AWS account

#serverless #aws #devops

5 min read

Paul Swail

Nov 29 '19

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

#serverless #aws #lambda #vpc

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3 min read

Paul Swail

Nov 22 '19

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

#serverless #aws #dynamodb

12 min read

Paul Swail

Oct 25 '19

How to build a serverless photo upload service with API Gateway

#serverless #lambda #apigateway #node

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10 min read

Paul Swail

Apr 17 '19

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

#serverless #node #lambda #apigateway

7 min read

Paul Swail

Apr 9 '19

Building CICD pipelines for serverless microservices using the AWS CDK

#serverless #aws #codepipeline #devops

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13 min read

Paul Swail

Apr 2 '19

Identifying service boundaries in a monolithic API

#serverless #aws #apigateway #lambda

5 min read

Paul Swail

Mar 20 '19

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

#showdev #serverless #aws #apigateway

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10 min read

Paul Swail

Mar 14 '19

Routing requests away from a legacy API

#showdev #serverless #aws #node

5 min read

Paul Swail

Mar 7 '19

Migrating a Monolithic SaaS App to Serverless — A Decision Journal

#showdev #serverless #aws #node

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8 min read

Paul Swail

Mar 7 '19

How to set up AWS accounts for multiple product environments

#serverless #aws #devops

5 min read

Paul Swail

Feb 21 '19

Serverless Glossary

#serverless #aws

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9 min read

Paul Swail

Dec 3 '18

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

#lambda #serverless #aws #reinvent

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7 min read

Paul Swail

Nov 22 '18

Schedule emails without polling a database using Step Functions

#stepfunctions #lambda #serverless #aws

1 min read

Paul Swail

Nov 1 '18

Why serverless newbies should use a deployment framework

#lambda #apigateway #serverless #aws

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1 min read

Paul Swail

Oct 25 '18

Back-end Primer for Front-end Web Developers

#webdev #architecture #fullstack

1 min read

Paul Swail

Sep 19 '18

Concerns that go away in a serverless world

#serverless #aws #devops

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4 min read

Paul Swail

Sep 13 '18

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

#aws

2 min read

Paul Swail

Sep 6 '18

The differing definitions of “serverless”

#serverless

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4 min read

Paul Swail

Aug 29 '18

Scaling Lambdas inside a VPC

#serverless #aws

8 min read

Paul Swail

Aug 23 '18

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

#serverless #aws

5 min read

Paul Swail

Aug 23 '18

5 common mistakes deploying Lambda functions

#serverless #aws

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4 min read

Paul Swail

Aug 23 '18

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

#aws #serverless

6 min read

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Re:Invent Yourself and Your Company With Serverless

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

Building CICD pipelines for serverless microservices using the AWS CDK

Building CICD pipelines for serverless microservices using the AWS CDK

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

Migrating a Monolithic SaaS App to Serverless — A Decision Journal

How a Monolith Architecture Can Be Transformed into Serverless

Serverless Glossary