Serverless First Impressions with AWS Lambda
Serverless First Impressions with AWS Lambda

Serverless First Impressions with AWS Lambda

Author
Shiv Bade
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serverless
lambda
aws
Published
October 22, 2018
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I tried serverless in earnest this quarter. AWS Lambda was the entry point — triggered by S3 events, SNS topics, or API Gateway.
Pros: - Zero infra management - Great for bursty workloads - Tight integration with other AWS services
Gotchas: - Cold starts on VPC-attached Lambdas - Local development/debugging friction - Observability required CloudWatch gymnastics
Use case: we built a log-parsing pipeline that fanned out processing using SNS + Lambda + DynamoDB.
Still not a silver bullet, but a powerful addition to the toolbox.