Posts by Efi Merdler-Kravitz

Instrumenting distributed systems for operational visibility

Efi Merdler-Kravitz | Mar 03 2020

ABL in focus #8: Instrumenting distributed systems for operational visibility

Next in our series on the Amazon Builders’ Library, Lumigo Director of Engineering...

A performance-tuned engine representing the under-the-hood optimizations to get the most out of AWS Lambda function performance.

Efi Merdler-Kravitz | Jan 07 2020

How to optimize AWS Lambda performance

AWS Lambda has become the most widely used deployment pattern for serverless applications....

Efi Merdler-Kravitz | Oct 31 2019

An Introduction to AWS CDK

In this article we’ll introduce the AWS Cloud Development Kit and explore how...

An image of a squirrel, representing the mascot of AWS SAM.

Efi Merdler-Kravitz | Oct 02 2019

5 Tips for using AWS Serverless Application Model

AWS introduced the Serverless Application Model (SAM) to ease the building of serverless...

The main image for speeding up serverless development, showing an abstract image of travelling at speed.

Efi Merdler-Kravitz | Sep 24 2019

8 ways to speed up serverless development

There is a paradox at the heart of serverless. While it’s promoted as...

An image representing the circular flow of serverless development

Efi Merdler-Kravitz | Jul 11 2019

Development workflow for serverless applications

Serverless applications require a whole new approach to development workflow. In this article,...

Efi Merdler-Kravitz | May 09 2019

AWS Cognito Tutorial: serverless integration testing

In this bite-sized blog post we look at how to add Cognito to...

How to make sure you don't accidentally delete your serverless stack

Efi Merdler-Kravitz | Apr 25 2019

Serverless from the trenches 1: Protect your stack from deletion

It’s time to talk about the everyday challenges of serverless. Whenever I scroll...

Efi Merdler-Kravitz | Mar 12 2019

Web frameworks implication for serverless cold starts

TL;DR Web application frameworks with all of their benefits add their own set...

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