Tweet Having previously blogged about the untrodden path to enable caching on API Gateway request parameters in the Serverless framework 0.5.X, it’s a little disappointing that it’s still not officially fixed in the 1.X versions… The Problem The problem is two-fold: there’s currently no way to specify caching should be enabled for path & query

Tweet The Road So Far part 1 : overview part 2 : testing and continuous delivery strategies part 3 : ops   Just before Yubl’s untimely demise we did an interesting piece of work to redesign the system for sending targeted push notifications to our users to improve retention. The old system relied on MixPanel for both selecting users as

Tweet Following on from the last post where we discussed 3 useful tips for working effectively with Lambda and Kinesis, let’s look at how you can use Lambda to help you auto scale Kinesis streams. Auto-scaling for DynamoDB and Kinesis are two of the most frequently requested features for AWS, as I write this post I’m sure the

Tweet At Yubl, we arrived at a non-trivial serverless architecture where Lambda and Kinesis became a prominent feature of this architecture. Whilst our experience using Lambda with Kinesis was great in general, there was a couple of lessons that we had to learn along the way. Here are 3 useful tips to help you avoid

Tweet An interesting requirement came up at work this week where we discussed potentially having to run our own URL Shortener because the Universal Links mechanism (in iOS 9 and above) requires a JSON manifest at https://domain.com/apple-app-site-association Since the OS doesn’t follow redirects this manifest has to be hosted on the URL shortener’s root domain. Owing to a limitation