Kin Lane
This is the seventh and final post in my July series on API sprawl. I have covered what it is, its organizational and technical roots, the shadow, rogue, and zombie APIs that hide in the gaps, why it costs you, and how governance prevents it from forming. Governance sets the rules and the gates....
Lilanga Gamage
Introduction In the world of IoT, managing and accessing data from various sensors efficiently is crucial. AWS provides a powerful suite of tools that allow developers to seamlessly integrate IoT devices, store data, and expose this data via RESTful APIs. In this post, we will walk through how to...
Alex DeBrie
I've spent a fair bit of time with API Gateway over the past few years. It's an awesome (if occasionally frustrating) service for building serverless web APIs using Lambda functions.In previous blog posts, I took a close look at the internals of API Gateway and ran a performance test for different...
Alex DeBrie
AWS API Gateway is an awesome service to use as an HTTP frontend. You can use it for building serverless applications, for integrating with legacy applications, or for proxying HTTP requests directly to other AWS services.But understanding the elements of API Gateway can be difficult. If you're...
Alex DeBrie
In my last post, I showed how to connect AWS API Gateway directly to SNS using a service integration.A few people asked me about the performance implications of this architecture.Is it significantly faster than using a Lambda-based approach?How does it compare to EC2 or ECS?My answer: I don't...
Alex DeBrie
AWS API Gateway is a powerful service for managing your REST APIs. It was released in 2015 as a way to make the newly-released AWS Lambda compute service accessible over HTTPS.In this post, we'll discuss one of the more advanced API Gateway use cases -- using an AWS service integration to connect...