Serverless Showdown: Cloud Run vs Cloud Functions vs App Engine Choosing the Right GCP Compute Platform for Your Workload I’ve deployed applications to all three GCP serverless platforms—Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, and App Engine. Each has strengths, but choosing wrong costs time and money. I’ve seen teams spend weeks migrating from App Engine to Cloud […]
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Orchestrating Chaos: Why AWS Step Functions Became My Secret Weapon for Building Resilient Distributed Systems
Three years ago, I inherited a distributed system that processed insurance claims across twelve microservices. The orchestration logic lived in a tangled web of message queues, retry handlers, and compensating transactions scattered across multiple codebases. When something failed—and in distributed systems, something always fails—debugging meant correlating logs across a dozen services while the business waited […]
Read more →Tips and Tricks – Use CQRS for Complex Domain Logic
Separate read and write operations for better scalability and simpler code.
Read more →Tips and Tricks – Use AWS Lambda Layers for Shared Dependencies
Share common code and dependencies across Lambda functions to reduce deployment size.
Read more →The Serverless Revolution: Why AWS Lambda Changed Everything I Thought I Knew About Building Scalable Systems
🎓 AUTHORITY NOTE Drawing from 20+ years of enterprise architecture experience and having migrated dozens of production systems to serverless, representing millions of Lambda invocations monthly. This is battle-tested, production-proven knowledge. Executive Summary There’s a moment in every architect’s career when a technology fundamentally rewrites your mental model of how systems should work. For me, […]
Read more →The Serverless Revolution: Why AWS Lambda Changed How We Think About Infrastructure
When AWS Lambda launched in 2014, it fundamentally changed how we think about infrastructure. No servers to provision, no capacity to plan, no patches to apply—just code that runs when events occur, billed by the millisecond. AWS Lambda Event-Driven Architecture The Mental Model Shift Traditional infrastructure starts with capacity planning: How many servers? What instance […]
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