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Unit Testing AWS Lambda Functions Without a Framework
Posted on:October 8, 2024· 3 min read151 unit tests, no Jest — just Node's built-in runner, tsx, and sinon. The hard part wasn't the test framework, it was understanding module loading order and what the bundler does to your exports.
SQL-Style Triggers in NoSQL: DynamoDB Streams, CosmosDB Change Feed, and When Not to Bother
Posted on:July 20, 2023· 5 min readNoSQL 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.
AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, and When to Reach for Step Functions Instead
Posted on:March 15, 2023· 6 min readLambda 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.