[Infographic] OpenSearch from a serverless perspective

By Dustin Ward

Dashbird got an update, and you can now monitor the OpenSearch clusters you set up with Amazon OpenSearch Service. But what does this even mean? Many people don’t even know what OpenSearch is! Wasn’t there an Elasticsearch service before? So, let’s have some explanation before we check out Dashbirds OpenSearch support. Elastic and AWS Disagreed on Fair Use…

[Infographic] HTTP API Gateway from a serverless perspective

By Dustin Ward

This article was originally posted to Dashbird blog. Since our latest update, Dashbird also gives you insights into HTTP API Gateway. Let’s look at the differences between REST vs. HTTP; HTTP API Gateway pricing, integrations and monitoring. What is HTTP API Gateway? Back in the days when AWS released the first version of API Gateway, they tried…

[Infographic] AWS SNS from a serverless perspective

By Dustin Ward

The Simple Notification Service, or SNS for short, is one of the central services to build serverless architectures in the AWS cloud. SNS itself is a serverless messaging service that can distribute massive numbers of messages to different recipients. These include mobile end-user devices, like smartphones and tablets, but also other services inside the AWS…

You’ve been thinking of Serverless all wrong!

By Dustin Ward

While working for Dashbird.io I’ve had to pleasure to come in contact with a number of serverless early adopters that included both small companies working on apps or just testing ideas as well as fortune 500 companies with an already established user base. What I’ve found is that a lot of the people I speak to think…

Serverless SWOT analysis

By Dustin Ward

Building a serverless application means you usually trade in old issues for new ones. This is an attempt to create a decision framework and break down arguments for and against using serverless vs. other computing models. If you ever find yourself deciding for or against serverless the following tries to make the decision easier for…

[Infographic] AWS RDS from a Serverless perspective

By Dustin Ward

In this article, we’ll deep dive into all the basics to help you decide if AWS RDS is the right decision for your architecture and help you hit the ground running if you do end up AWS RDS. For many decades now, relational databases (RDS) have been the place to store your data. They are…