#architecture

2 items tagged "architecture".

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• AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, and When to Reach for Step Functions Instead

  Posted on:May 13, 2026

  · 6 min read

  Lambda and Azure Functions are the easy part. Coordinating them — handling retries, state, error paths, timeouts — is where serverless gets hard. Step Functions solves that, but it's not always the right call.

  awsazureserverlessarchitecture

• SQL-Style Triggers in NoSQL: DynamoDB Streams, CosmosDB Change Feed, and When Not to Bother

  Posted on:May 13, 2026

  · 5 min read

  NoSQL databases don't have triggers. But their event-driven primitives — streams, change feeds, CDC — let you build the same things with better decoupling. Here's how, and where it hurts.

  awsazurenosqlarchitecture