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Have you ever heard the saying “it takes a village to raise a child”? Well, what if the village was 6 part-time volunteers and the child was a thriving technical community with over 900 members? For the Believe in Serverless (BIS) community, that’s the reality. Getting its start in January, the BIS community had humble beginnings. A slow-rolling Discord server and a once-a-week livestream with a few community members and the community champions. But the community took off real fast, growing the Discord server by hundreds of members over a few months and diving into 3+ live sessions every week. Between day jobs, moderation, event-planning, promo material creation, and social media marketing, the community had quickly run into unsustainable growth. There was no way the 6 of us (Ben Pyle, Danielle Heberling, Andres Moreno, James Eastham, Khawaja Shams, and me) could dedicate the time needed to establish processes and run things consistently.

Tutorial Adding a Custom Domain to AWS API Gateway

By Allen Helton 21 January 2021

AWS is all about API development. But one thing that's harder than it should be is putting an API behind a custom domain.

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Application development It’s 2021. This Is Where Your Focus Should Be In Tech.

By Allen Helton 05 January 2021

2020 was an enlightening year for tech. Now is our chance to capitalize on everything we learned.

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Guest post How to Catch Breaking Changes Before They Happen

By Allen Helton 20 November 2020

Discover how to identify breaking changes in your CI pipeline to avoid any accidental issues.

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Application development How to Automatically Monitor API Performance with Dynamic Testing

By Allen Helton 11 November 2020

Performance testing an API is important work, but it can take a lot of time to create and maintain tests. What if there was an easier way?

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Proof of concept How to Integrate Your App With Webhooks Using Amazon SNS

By Allen Helton 21 October 2020

Integrations with external systems are never fun to implement, but they don't have to be difficult! Using a managed service like Amazon SNS makes it dirt simple to get you up and running in minutes.

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Application development Dynamic Test Generation with Open API Spec 3.0

By Allen Helton 14 October 2020

Did you know you could generate tests in Postman on the fly? If you already have your API defined in OAS3.0, it's easy!

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