Category Archives: AWS

Add to Slack – Monetize Your API
7 min API monetization is a growing trend. It is now a consolidated business of digital companies to grant access, for a fee, to the APIs providing company data or to some services using different distribution channels. A possible channel for spreading your APIs and services is integration with existing and well-known platforms, such as Slack. If […]

Chromium and Selenium in AWS Lambda
4 min Let’s see how it is possible to use Chromium and Selenium in an AWS Lambda function; first, some information for those unfamiliar with these two projects. 2020.09 update Please check project repository for a new version of this project. Chromium ver. 86.0.4240.0 and Selenium ver. 3.14. Chromium is the open source browser from which Google Chrome derives. […]

Build AWS Lambda CI pipeline with Goss and TravisCI
4 min I recently written about how to develop AWS Lambda functions offline, using the docker images of LambdaCI . Starting from the Python environment used for the development of a sample Lambda function, let’s see how to create a Continuous Integration pipeline that deals with testing it for each new commit. We use Goss as a […]

AWS Lambda offline development with Docker
3 min I work on projects that are increasingly oriented towards the serverless paradigm and increasingly implemented on AWS Lambda platform. Being able to offline develop an AWS Lambda function, comfortably in your favorite IDE, without having to upload the code to be able to test it, allows significantly speed up of activities and increased efficiency. AWS […]

Free SSL certificates with Certbot in AWS Lambda
5 min Thanks to Certbot and to Electronic Frontier Foundation it is possible to provide a totally free SSL certificate to your website. Certbot is a command line tool to request a valid SSL certificate for your domain, following a process to verify the ownership. The tool can also deal with web server certificate installation and many […]