GitHub contributors statistics are often helpful to get the pulse of a GitHub repository. They make it possible to have a break down of added/removed lines of code and number of commits by contributors. Quite handy! But when you are trying to get a higher level view and get the…

AWS lambda functions are the foundation of serverless computing on AWS. They are useful to react to AWS events (SNS message published, file uploaded on S3, etc) but are also often used to just do some serverless computing. You invoke your lambda with some input, it computes something and returns…

When building a web application using a serverless micro-service architecture on AWS, you end up using lambdas extensively. Lambdas are very useful and simple but they suffer from the cold start problem. As described in details by Serhat Can in this article, a cold start is defined as: A latency…