Running a Telegram bot on AWS Lambda
Telegram is a common messaging application, with over 500 million users. I've been using it daily since 2015, and I prefer it over WhatsApp due to many reasons: native PC/Mac applications (and
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How South Africa’s need for energy efficiency can lead us to cloud computing
Cloud computing is not a new concept. Amazon Web Services (AWS) was the first to offer cloud services when it launched its Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) storage service in 2006. Gartner estimates
IaC or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love AWS (sic)
Lets say you building something in AWS. A typical architecture - perhaps a 3-tier web-app: Load-balancer, app, and database. Maybe you want to use a container platform to run the app, so you
The Most Under-Appreciated AWS Service
I knew this was gonna be a tough ask: to identify the most under-appreciated AWS, and to expound why that is. Tough for a few reasons I think, mostly because we can’t
Architecture, Cloud and Serverless
I had some follow-on thoughts after my post on Microservices: Distributed Data Patterns that I wanted to share. I came across Jeremy Daly’s detailed article on Higher Performing Microservices, that built on
Learning Python on AWS
I’ve been working in tech for just over 15 years now. I’ve relied on Java as my go-to tool for quick PoCs, and its carried well my thus far. But I