AWS SQS plays a significant role in modern application architecture, especially in a serverless environment. When working with SQS, it is often to see messages failed to be consumed, it could be a bug in your code, a temporary resource restriction, eg API rate exceeded, or dependencies in the messages…

In Jun 2020, AWS announced that RDS Proxy is generally available for both MySQL and PostgreSQL engine compatibility. It is a significant milestone for AWS serverless ecosystem because for many serverless architectures, making DB serverless is not an easy task, now with RDS Proxy, the task is no longer as…

It is a common use case to secure your S3 assets behind CloudFront, so that the assets can only be accessed via CloudFront. Normally it can be done by adding OAI to the CloudFront distribution, and use CloudFront signed URL to access the assets. Lambda@Edge provides new thinking to achieve…

There are numerous hosting providers that allow you to host your website on their server and enable you to manage your website files using SFTP. If you happen to have an AWS account and enjoy DIY, you can easily setup S3 website + SFTP within a few minutes. S3 Website Create an…

I’ve written quite a few How-To-Create-PDF-using-X-on-Serverless-AWS-Lambda posts, covered wkhtmltopdf, Chromium Puppeteer and Pdf-Kit, and I’ve been getting some requests asking to write articles on other libraries. Pdf-lib is one of them. To be honest, I wasn’t aware of PDF-LIB before, it’s a fairly new solution comparing with the others, but…

Pdfkit is a popular tool for manipulating PDF, and running it on AWS Lambda makes it even more powerful because of the benefits from being serverless, but it can be a bit tricky to set up from the ground. As always I use Serverless framework to manage the AWS resources…

It’s been a while since the last time I published the solution, tech evolves fast, now it’s time for an overhaul.

AWS announced the improvement on VPC networking for Lambda in September, since then I’ve been checking the updates every day, it finally arrives Sydney region! Cold start issue has been the №1 blocker for many companies that are going Serverless, at Inquisitive we paused the steps going full Serverless, we…

AWS is pretty generous on giving credits to startups, to help them cover the AWS bills in their early days (well you know so that they can grow deeply within AWS platform, and eventually AWS will get you to pay the bill with real money). This program is called AWS…