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Some Serverless Gotchas

Dec 11, 2020
Cloud Architecture, Serverless
AWS, GCP, Lambda, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions

As it’s been in the news recently, I thought it would be timely to list a few things to watch out for when working with serverless services, serverless-es? Sssserverless? Serverlaas? Servern’ts? Anyway, I figured we should start with execution patterns and how they can go wrong. Brief Into to Serverless # In the interest of accessibility I want to make sure that everyone has an idea what serverless is, or at least how I explain it to myself. ...

My Blog Stack

Dec 9, 2020
Cloud Architecture
App Engine, Blog, GCP, Hugo, CICD, Static Site

This blog is written in Hugo and deployed to Google App Engine as a static site. “Whoa whoa whoa” you might say, a static site? Sure. App Engine handlers are basically nginx listeners and you can specify static content, default index.html, etc, so why not? You don’t have to define a script endpoint at all even and I’d argue it’s actually easier to get a static site up and running here than it is to use a bucket with an endpoint and a load balancer. ...