Serverless

A stream handler isn't an outbox. The transactional outbox pattern is the natural way to solve the dual write problem, but it can be trickier than you think to implement correctly.

Turn deferred event delivery into an EventBridge primitive so any app can schedule work without managing EventBridge Scheduler itself.

Serving images from S3 worked for years, until it didn't. Here's how I moved image optimization out of my workflow and made performance the default.

I built a deliberately overengineered serverless hackathon project with agents, event-driven choreography, and what not to do... on purpose.

A real-world look at AppSync Events through the lens of hard-earned WebSockets mistakes. What managed real-time actually means, what's still missing, and what most teams really want.

Learn about how I helped scale the Believe in Serverless community and grow the brand presence with a little bit of automation.

A practical comparison of AWS Step Functions and Temporal, looking at workflow modeling, operational complexity, and how each fits different system designs.

First impressions of serverless Postgres with Neon, focusing on developer experience, performance tradeoffs, and where it fits (or doesn't) in real-world systems.

Cron jobs let you set recurring events down to 1-minute intervals. But what if you need more?

Learn how I automated the creation of redirect links and click-tracking to highlight content creators without any extra work