I’ve created a new demo site for displaying my past and current development projects. If you’d like to see some of the APIs, npm packages and other serverless-related fun you should check it out.

This post was originally appeared on the Pluralsight Blog on February 28, 2017. Be sure to check out my Pluralsight course that can introduce you to AWS Lambda!

Maintaining data warehouses can be a difficult undertaking for any organization. Not only do you have to establish processes and procedures for regularly loading flowing data, you also have to ensure you’re doing it in a way that’s resistant to failure and future errors. In this post, we’ll take a quick look at some of the biggest challenges of maintaining large scale data warehouses, and how AWS Lambda can help.

Recently I was trying to use the psycopg2 libraries for Python in combination with AWS Lambda. My first hint that this was probably overkill was that the function package, when zipped, started exceeding 50MB. AWS console errors quickly reminded me that 50MB is the size limit for Lambda packages.

My Pluralsight Course is here! After a lengthy Winter vacation of recording and a few weekends of editing I present to you my Pluralsight AWS Developer Course - An Introudction to Lambda