Protecting the API Keys, database passwords, and other secrets used by your applications is a critically important task for any developer. Fortunately, there are excellent options for this when developing serverless applications. We’ll look at one of the most common: The AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store.

Back in 2021 I started writing The Serverless Cookbook. I am thrilled to say that I have finished the first edition of the book and it is now available here!

Yes. This is clickbait. But I mean it!

I’ve spent weeks trying to configure ECS clusters, debugging Fargate, spinning up and debugging EKS cluster permissions, and even trying to deploy containers on EC2 instances and hopefully never will again!

Fortunately, AWS has an option that actually implements the full “serverless” ethos and doesn’t make me dig into as many of the dirty details as I’ve had to before: AWS App Runner. In this post I’ll show you how to throw together a simple AWS App Runner API that will help you get around any of the AWS Lambda limitations. I’ll do this with Node.js but you can easily use other languages.

I have some exciting news: I’m writing a book on serverless development!

This is the first episode of Reader Questions! I’ve started getting more and more questions from readers of my blog and social media so I’ve decided to start posting my answers publicly so everyone can benefit. These questions and answers may be edited slightly to apply more generally and preserve anonymity but hopefully they’ll be useful for you too!

Today’s episode contains questions related to serverless, frontend development, IoT, internships, and more!