Yan Cui

AWS Serverless Hero. Consultant. Speaker. Trainer. Blogger.

Amsterdam, Netherlands Joined on Apr 19, 2019 https://theburningmonk.com

Yan Cui for AWS Heroes

Jun 7

How to handle client errors gracefully with AppSync and Lambda

#appsync #aws #lambda #programming

3 min read

“Even simple serverless applications have complex architecture diagrams”, so what?

Yup, absolutely. It's about looking at your Total Cost of Own...

Nov 15 '20

AWS Serverless: you might not need third party monitoring

CW Logs Insights has lots of functional limitations (ie. what...

Jul 29 '20

Five reasons you should consider AppSync over API Gateway

Ah, I see. For those, you can perform validation in the VTL r...

Jul 28 '20

Five reasons you should consider AppSync over API Gateway

What sorta validation are you thinking about? In most cases, ...

Jul 27 '20

Five reasons you should consider AppSync over API Gateway

Amplify is a set of related tools (there's the amplify-js cli...

Jul 27 '20

Five reasons you should consider AppSync over API Gateway

yes, pretty much, for example, getMyProfile would return your...

Jul 27 '20

5 Things I Learned from The DynamoDB Book

For no. 5, DynamoDB is not the right solution for storing r...

Apr 11 '20

Year in Review, 2019

Thank you, glad I was able to help! I don't have a full tim...

Jan 6 '20

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Yan Cui for AWS Heroes

May 10

Lambda layer: not a package manager, but a deployment optimization

#aws #lambda #programming #serverless

3 min read

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May 6

How to manage Route53 hosted zones in a multi-account environment

#aws #programming #route53 #cloudformation

3 min read

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Apr 6

Building a custom IAM system has made me appreciate AWS IAM even more

#appsync #aws #lambda #programming

7 min read

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Mar 28

How to model one-to-many relationships with AppSync and DynamoDB

#appsync #aws #dynamodb

3 min read

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Mar 27

How to secure multi-tenant applications with AppSync and Cognito

#appsync #aws #cognito #serverless

4 min read

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Mar 20

The case for and against Amazon Cognito

#aws #programming #cognito

7 min read

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Mar 20

How to configure environment specific parameters with Vue.js and Amplify

#amplify #aws #programming #vue

3 min read

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Dec 7 '20

What you need to know about Aurora Serverless v2, so far.

#aws #serverless #rds

2 min read

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Nov 18 '20

How I built a social network in 4 weeks with GraphQL and serverless

#appsync #aws #graphql

7 min read

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Nov 13 '20

“Even simple serverless applications have complex architecture diagrams”, so what?

#aws #serverless #cloud

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Nov 4 '20

Production-Ready Serverless is back!

#aws #lambda #serverless

4 min read

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Nov 2 '20

AppSync Masterclass is open for early access!

#graphql #aws #serverless

2 min read

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Sep 22 '20

How to sample AppSync resolver logs

#appsync #aws #cloudwatch #lambda

4 min read

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Sep 13 '20

How to set up custom domain names for AppSync

#appsync #aws #serverless #graphql

4 min read

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Aug 26 '20

How to model hierarchical access with AppSync

#appsync #aws #graphql #serverless

5 min read

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Aug 18 '20

What alerts should you have for serverless applications?

#aws #awslambda #serverless #cloud

6 min read

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Aug 15 '20

Weekly update 47

#me #weeklyupdate

5 min read

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Aug 7 '20

Choreography vs Orchestration in the land of serverless

#aws #lambda #serverless

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6 min read

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Jul 30 '20

How I scaled an AppSync project to 200+ resolvers

#appsync #aws #serverless

7 min read

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Jul 26 '20

Five reasons you should consider AppSync over API Gateway

#aws #appsync #serverless #graphql

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8 min read

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Jul 19 '20

AppSync: how to inject table names into DynamoDB batch & transact operations

#appsync #aws #serverless

4 min read

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Jul 18 '20

Weekly update 46

#aws #serverless

5 min read

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Jul 12 '20

Are Lambda-to-Lambda calls really so bad?

#aws #lambda #serverless

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5 min read

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Jul 8 '20

Why we didn’t choose QLDB for a healthcare app

#aws #qldb

4 min read

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Jul 6 '20

Production-Ready Serverless is back (with improved curriculum)!

#aws #lambda #serverless

2 min read

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Jul 3 '20

I left full-time employment, here’s what happened since

#career

8 min read

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Jun 20 '20

How to choose the right API Gateway auth method

#apigateway #aws #serverless #security

3 min read

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May 2 '20

AppSync: how to compare strings lexicographically in VTL

#appsync #aws #serverless

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May 1 '20

Weekly update 44

#me #weeklyupdate

5 min read

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Apr 18 '20

AppSync: how to error on DynamoDB conditional check failures

#appsync #aws #dynamodb #graphql

4 min read

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Apr 16 '20

Skill up your serverless game with my new instructor-led online workshop

#aws #lambda #career #serverless

4 min read

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Apr 9 '20

Hit the 6MB Lambda payload limit? Here’s what you can do.

#apigateway #aws #lambda #programming

5 min read

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Apr 4 '20

AppSync: skipping nullable nested resolvers by returning early

#appsync #aws #graphql #serverless

3 min read

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Mar 22 '20

How to: optimize Lambda memory size during CI/CD pipeline

#aws #lambda #performance #serverless

7 min read

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Mar 11 '20

Weekly update 42

#me #realworldserverles #weeklyupdate

4 min read

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Mar 6 '20

Announcing the new Real-World Serverless podcast

#aws #lambda #realworldserverles #serverless

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Feb 23 '20

Diversity tickets for Production-Ready Serverless workshops

#aws #me #serverless

2 min read

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Feb 19 '20

Weekly update 41

#me #weeklyupdate

4 min read

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Feb 12 '20

Well-architect your way to better serverless applications

#aws #serverless

2 min read

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Feb 9 '20

AWS Heroes united!

#aws #lambda #serverless

2 min read

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Feb 3 '20

Weekly update 40

#me #weeklyupdate

5 min read

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Jan 30 '20

20 new lessons of Lambda best practices

#aws #lambda #serverless

2 min read

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Jan 20 '20

Weekly update 39

#weeklyupdate #aws #serverless

6 min read

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Jan 14 '20

New course – Learn you some Lambda best practice for great good!

#aws #lambda #serverless

2 min read

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Jan 8 '20

Weekly update 38

#aws #serverless

8 min read

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Jan 5 '20

Year in Review, 2019

#me #yearinreview

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Jan 6 '20

Complete Guide to Step Functions: new lessons and 50% off sale is now on

#aws #stepfunctions

1 min read

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Nov 6 '19

Breaking the "senior engineer" ceiling

#career

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6 min read

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Nov 4 '19

Check-list for going live with API Gateway and Lambda

#apigateway #aws #lambda #serverless

5 min read

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Nov 7 '19

Weekly update 36

#me #weeklyupdate

1 min read

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Oct 22 '19

Top 10 Serverless Best Practices

#serverless #aws #awslambda

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4 min read

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Oct 21 '19

My advice to junior developers

#career

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Oct 21 '19

How to analyze Lambda cold starts

#aws #lambda #programming #serverless

2 min read

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Oct 19 '19

Common Node.js mistakes in Lambda

#aws #serverless #node #javascript

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3 min read

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Oct 15 '19

Where Serverless plugin stops and platform starts

#aws #lambda #programming #serverless

5 min read

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Oct 10 '19

My top tips on technical writing after 9 years and 800+ posts

#technicalwriting

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4 min read

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Oct 8 '19

The API Gateway security risk you need to pay attention to

#apigateway #aws #security #serverless

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4 min read

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Oct 3 '19

All you need to know about caching for serverless applications

#apigateway #aws #awslambda #serverless

7 min read

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Sep 30 '19

Should you pack the AWS SDK in your deployment artefact?

#aws #lambda #programming #serverless

3 min read

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