Hi, I’m Paul Swail.
I guide small teams building serverless apps on AWS.
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Popular Articles
I write regularly about serverless. Here’s a list of my most popular articles:Strategy & Engineering Approach
- Beware “Best Practice”
- Paradigm shifts
- Optimising for the right thing at the right time
- The serverless value proposition for development agencies
- Infrastructure-as-Code is the linchpin practice for successful serverless teams
- The testing trade-off triangle
- Integration and E2E tests are the primary confidence drivers for serverless apps
Technical/How-tos
- Comparing multi and single table approaches to designing a DynamoDB data model
- How to build a serverless photo upload service with API Gateway
- 7 ways to do async message processing in AWS
- The Simple Guide to Testing within your Serverless CI/CD Pipelines
- Migrating a Monolithic SaaS App to Serverless — A Decision Journal (6-part series)