Al3x' Tech Blog

Articles in Terraform category

Setup a custom domain REST API endpoint on AWS Lambda: a step by step tutorial

Since I discovered the main concepts and benefits of Serverless applications, I’m gradually migrating the few services I run on my personal server(s) towards solutions which require no need for me to keep any (virtual) server running. The reason is simple: there are so many other interesting things to do than keeping an online system in good shape. If that’s not enough, leveraging FaaS …

sslnotify.me - yet another OpenSource Serverless MVP

After ~10 years of experience in managing servers at small and medium scales, and despite the fact that I still love doing sysadmin stuff and I constantly try to learn new and better ways to approach and solve problems, there’s one thing that I think I’ve learned very well: it’s hard to get the operation part right, very hard.

Instead of dealing with not-so-interesting problems …