Claude Function Calling with API Gateway: Build a Secure Serverless LLM Endpoint
When Claude wants to run code, you need a webhook it can call. Most teams slam together a Lambda URL, but that skips critical security and versionin…
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When Claude wants to run code, you need a webhook it can call. Most teams slam together a Lambda URL, but that skips critical security and versionin…
Imagine an AI agent that can plan, act, and observe without a single Lambda function acting as glue. EventBridge Pipes let you stitch together LLM c…
Serverless on AWS isn't "just use Lambda." It's a design philosophy: let AWS manage the infrastructure, pay only for what you use, and build with ma…
CloudWise's /dashboard took up to 2.3 seconds to load cold. That's the API Lambda's own cliff — not network, not the frontend. AWS Lambda SnapStart…
A crooked phone photo goes in, a clean straight card image comes out - no GPU, and nothing running when nobody uploads. It runs on the biggest lambd…
No training, no training data and no GPU. This classifier's whole brain is a list of English sentences I typed by hand - and I can teach it a new ca…
Imagine having a personal coding assistant that not only writes code for you but also debugs and optimizes it. This is now a reality with AI agents.…
Every deprecated-runtime migration produces the same shape of pain: you bump one version number, redeploy, and get hit with errors that look unrelat…
In first post of this series, I introduced my Cloud Native Buildpack for AWS Lambda PHP (Bref). Here I want to provide some technical details on how…
There's a particular kind of 2 a.m. that only happens in fleet IoT. A slice of your devices — a few thousand of them — drop off the network at once.…
My Terraform drift detector had a problem. It could run terraform plan , detect drift, and send me an email through SNS. But the message only told m…
If you searched "nodejs20.x Lambda deadline" recently, you probably read that AWS blocks new function creation on Aug 31, 2026 and updates on Sep 30…
At re:Invent 2025, AWS announced Lambda Durable Functions . The feature introduces a checkpoint/replay mechanism that allows Lambda executions to ru…
If you upgraded a Lambda function from nodejs16.x to nodejs18.x (or nodejs20.x / nodejs22.x ) and your logs now show: Runtime.ImportModuleError: Err…
Most agent demos stop at "the model called a tool and gave an answer." That answer is often wrong, and nothing in the loop notices. I wanted an agen…
A while back I needed to process thousands of images for an e-commerce platform: multiple versions per product, carousel, thumbnail, invoice miniatu…
TL;DR I built a personal VPN using AWS Lambda MicroVMs. Your traffic exits from AWS. When you disconnect, the MicroVM terminates — zero cost, nothin…
Node.js 22's built-in diagnostics channel is being criminally underused. This week, our team stumbled upon an obscure option that replaced 300 lines…
AWS deprecates Lambda runtimes on a 3-phase schedule: Phase 1 ends security patches, Phase 2 blocks creating new functions, Phase 3 blocks updating…
A month ago, we thought we'd solved our access control issues with IAM Access Analyzer. But a closer look revealed a staggering overprovisioning pro…
Our real-time data pipeline was failing due to mysterious throughput limits. The culprit? A little-known Kinesis Data Firehose limitation that has n…
There is common point of confusion. what's the different between REST API vs. HTTP API in AWS and what's the different between them and a traditiona…
Modern enterprise order processing architectures must decouple synchronous client demands from asynchronous backend dependencies. Here I'll detail a…
Lambda durable functions, introduced in re:Invent 2025, are a great fit for long-running workflows that need to wait for external events, callbacks,…
Implement scheduled scaling Recently, Amazon EventBridge Scheduler added 619 new SDK API actions . One of these actions adjusts the Lambda function'…
After months of using Jest for unit testing, we decided to take the plunge and migrate to the built-in node:test runner. The results were surprising…
Most serverless tutorials stop at a hello-world Lambda behind API Gateway. I wanted the opposite: build one real product end to end, run every comma…
Every Lambda function I have written that touches S3 has the same three lines of plumbing: s3 . download_file ( bucket , key , " /tmp/input.csv " )…
Who This Is For If you are using AWS Lambda to build serverless applications and you have never stopped to look closely at the IAM roles attached to…
Project demo link : https://image-ignite.vercel.app/ This started as a hobby project. I was thinking about a simple image conversion service for res…