Tweet AWS announced general availability of AWS Lambda support for AWS X-Ray back in May. It’s taken me a while to try it out, and whilst I see plenty of values I think its current limitations significantly restricts its usefulness in a complex system. I found Lambda-specific documentations to be fragmented and I had to

Tweet In the last post I compared the coldstart time for Lambda functions with different language, memory and code size. One of the things I learnt was that idle functions are no longer terminated after 5 minutes of inactivity. AWS Lambda – compare coldstart time with different languages, memory and code sizes It is a fantastic

Over the last year, I have been working on The Gamma project, which aims to make data-driven visualizations more trustworthy and to enable large number of people to build visualizations backed by data. The Gamma makes it possible to create visualizations that are built on trustworthy primary data sources such as the World Bank and you can provide your own data source by writing a REST service. A great piece of feedback that I got when talking about The Gamma is that this is a nice ultimate goal, but it mak[...]

Tweet A while back we looked at the performance difference between the language runtimes AWS Lambda supports natively. AWS Lambda – comparing platform performances We intentionally omitted coldstart time from that experiment as we were interested in performance differences when a function is “warm”. However, coldstart is still an important performance consideration, so let’s take

I am very excited to be helping with the inaugural Detroit.Code conference here in July 2017.  In fact all of us that work on the DetroitDevDay conference are very excited about this new conference.  We all support growing the metro Detroit software development community and this is another great step in growing that community. (Full […]