A quick introduction – Packages, Libraries, and Repos Before we begin, if you’re familiar with these terms, you can skip to the next section. As software developers, we often bring other code into our own projects via “packages,” which are pre-built or pre-packaged libraries that others in the software development community create. At first this might seem strange. But one great thing about it is, the creators of these packages know very well the specific “thing” they’ve been working on…. [continue]
Converting Azure Functions to AWS Lambdas
TL;DR – The source code is here and converting Azure Functions to AWS Lambdas is really fun and easy! Some background For the unfamiliar, serverless computing is a way to host code that runs on a cloud provider and can scale resources automatically to handle load. Yes, technically there is a server, but to the developer writing the code he or she need not be concerned about that. This idea of being able to offload the worry and maintenance of… [continue]