Yan Cui

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

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

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AWS Heroes

Serverless

AWS, Serverless, DevOps, F#, C#, Node.js, Scala

Consulting and workshops on AWS/serverless

92 posts published

24 comments written

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Yan Cui for AWS Heroes

Aug 18 '22

How to setup geofencing and IP allow-list for Cognito user pool

#aws #cognito #security #waf

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Yan Cui

Aug 11 '22

How to add a zoom in effect with CSS

#appsyncmasterclass #css3

1 min read

Yan Cui for AWS Heroes

Jul 18 '22

The best ways to save money on Lambda

#aws #lambda

7 min read

Yan Cui for AWS Heroes

Jul 18 '22

My testing strategy for serverless applications

#aws #lambda #programming #serverless

7 min read

Yan Cui for AWS Heroes

Aug 11 '22

Group-based auth with AppSync Lambda authoriser

#appsync #aws #programming #security

4 min read

Yan Cui for AWS Heroes

Jun 7 '21

How to handle client errors gracefully with AppSync and Lambda

#appsync #aws #lambda #programming

3 min read

Yan Cui for AWS Heroes

May 10 '21

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

#aws #lambda #programming #serverless

3 min read

Yan Cui for AWS Heroes

May 6 '21

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

#aws #programming #route53 #cloudformation

3 min read

Yan Cui for AWS Heroes

Apr 6 '21

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

#appsync #aws #lambda #programming

7 min read

Yan Cui for AWS Heroes

Mar 28 '21

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

#appsync #aws #dynamodb

3 min read

Yan Cui for AWS Heroes

Mar 27 '21

How to secure multi-tenant applications with AppSync and Cognito

#appsync #aws #cognito #serverless

4 min read

Yan Cui for AWS Heroes

Mar 20 '21

The case for and against Amazon Cognito

#aws #programming #cognito

7 min read

Yan Cui for AWS Heroes

Mar 20 '21

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

#amplify #aws #programming #vue

3 min read

Yan Cui for AWS Heroes

Dec 7 '20

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

#aws #serverless #rds

2 min read

Yan Cui for AWS Heroes

Nov 18 '20

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

#appsync #aws #graphql

7 min read

Yan Cui for AWS Heroes

Nov 13 '20

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

#aws #serverless #cloud

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Yan Cui

Nov 4 '20

Production-Ready Serverless is back!

#aws #lambda #serverless

4 min read

Yan Cui

Nov 2 '20

AppSync Masterclass is open for early access!

#graphql #aws #serverless

2 min read

Yan Cui for AWS Heroes

Sep 22 '20

How to sample AppSync resolver logs

#appsync #aws #cloudwatch #lambda

4 min read

Yan Cui for AWS Heroes

Sep 13 '20

How to set up custom domain names for AppSync

#appsync #aws #serverless #graphql

4 min read

Yan Cui for AWS Heroes

Aug 26 '20

How to model hierarchical access with AppSync

#appsync #aws #graphql #serverless

5 min read

Yan Cui for AWS Heroes

Aug 18 '20

What alerts should you have for serverless applications?

#aws #awslambda #serverless #cloud

6 min read

Yan Cui for AWS Heroes

Aug 15 '20

Weekly update 47

#me #weeklyupdate

5 min read

Yan Cui for AWS Heroes

Aug 7 '20

Choreography vs Orchestration in the land of serverless

#aws #lambda #serverless

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Yan Cui for AWS Heroes

Jul 30 '20

How I scaled an AppSync project to 200+ resolvers

#appsync #aws #serverless

7 min read

Yan Cui for AWS Heroes

Jul 26 '20

Five reasons you should consider AppSync over API Gateway

#aws #appsync #serverless #graphql

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Yan Cui for AWS Heroes

Jul 19 '20

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

#appsync #aws #serverless

4 min read

Yan Cui for AWS Heroes

Jul 18 '20

Weekly update 46

#aws #serverless

5 min read

Yan Cui for AWS Heroes

Jul 12 '20

Are Lambda-to-Lambda calls really so bad?

#aws #lambda #serverless

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5 min read

Yan Cui for AWS Heroes

Jul 8 '20

Why we didn’t choose QLDB for a healthcare app

#aws #qldb

4 min read

Yan Cui

Jul 6 '20

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

#aws #lambda #serverless

2 min read

Yan Cui

Jul 3 '20

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

#career

8 min read

Yan Cui for AWS Heroes

Jun 20 '20

How to choose the right API Gateway auth method

#apigateway #aws #serverless #security

3 min read

Yan Cui

May 2 '20

AppSync: how to compare strings lexicographically in VTL

#appsync #aws #serverless

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Yan Cui

May 1 '20

Weekly update 44

#me #weeklyupdate

5 min read

Yan Cui

Apr 18 '20

AppSync: how to error on DynamoDB conditional check failures

#appsync #aws #dynamodb #graphql

4 min read

Yan Cui

Apr 16 '20

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

#aws #lambda #career #serverless

4 min read

Yan Cui

Apr 9 '20

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

#apigateway #aws #lambda #programming

5 min read

Yan Cui

Apr 4 '20

AppSync: skipping nullable nested resolvers by returning early

#appsync #aws #graphql #serverless

3 min read

Yan Cui for AWS Heroes

Mar 22 '20

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

#aws #lambda #performance #serverless

7 min read

Yan Cui

Mar 11 '20

Weekly update 42

#me #realworldserverles #weeklyupdate

4 min read

Yan Cui

Mar 6 '20

Announcing the new Real-World Serverless podcast

#aws #lambda #realworldserverles #serverless

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Yan Cui

Feb 23 '20

Diversity tickets for Production-Ready Serverless workshops

#aws #me #serverless

2 min read

Yan Cui

Feb 19 '20

Weekly update 41

#me #weeklyupdate

4 min read

Yan Cui

Feb 12 '20

Well-architect your way to better serverless applications

#aws #serverless

2 min read

Yan Cui

Feb 9 '20

AWS Heroes united!

#aws #lambda #serverless

2 min read

Yan Cui

Feb 3 '20

Weekly update 40

#me #weeklyupdate

5 min read

Yan Cui

Jan 30 '20

20 new lessons of Lambda best practices

#aws #lambda #serverless

2 min read

Yan Cui

Jan 20 '20

Weekly update 39

#weeklyupdate #aws #serverless

6 min read

Yan Cui

Jan 14 '20

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

#aws #lambda #serverless

2 min read

Yan Cui

Jan 8 '20

Weekly update 38

#aws #serverless

8 min read

Yan Cui

Jan 5 '20

Year in Review, 2019

#me #yearinreview

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Yan Cui

Jan 6 '20

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

#aws #stepfunctions

1 min read

Yan Cui

Nov 6 '19

Breaking the "senior engineer" ceiling

#career

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Yan Cui

Nov 4 '19

Check-list for going live with API Gateway and Lambda

#apigateway #aws #lambda #serverless

5 min read

Yan Cui

Nov 7 '19

Weekly update 36

#me #weeklyupdate

1 min read

Yan Cui

Oct 22 '19

Top 10 Serverless Best Practices

#serverless #aws #awslambda

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Yan Cui

Oct 21 '19

My advice to junior developers

#career

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Yan Cui

Oct 21 '19

How to analyze Lambda cold starts

#aws #lambda #programming #serverless

2 min read

Yan Cui

Oct 19 '19

Common Node.js mistakes in Lambda

#aws #serverless #node #javascript

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