Load-Testing Azure Functions with Loader.io — When the Azure team unveiled the new Premium plan for its serverless platform, it used Loader to run some benchmarks and you can do it too.

Mikhail Shilkov

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How to Monitor AWS Lambda with CloudWatch Metrics — CloudWatch Metrics provides you with basic metrics and alerting for your Lambda functions. Here’s the basics and what some of the limitations are.

Yan Cui

Building Serverless Web Apps with AWS and Kotlin — Kotlin is a relatively new language that runs on the JVM (Google is even suggesting Android developers use it instead of Java) and it, too, can be used to build serverless web apps on AWS Lambda.

Chris Kent

Using External Data in Lambda@Edge — Lambda@Edge takes Lambda to the edge with CloudFront and while it’s often used in a stateless fashion, it’s possible to use external data within your functions.

Achraf Souk (AWS)

How to Create a Serverless GraphQL API for MySQL, Postgres and Aurora — A tutorial for Serverless Framework.

Gareth McCumskey

Is Serverless Just a New Word for Cloud-Based? — There is some confusion about what it really means and how it really works.

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Customizing Amazon Cognito Verification Emails using AWS Lambda

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