Tag: aws

Serverless Development with Kotlin, AWS Lambda, and MongoDB Atlas

August 8, 2023 Nic Raboy

As seen in a previous tutorial, creating a serverless function for AWS Lambda with Java and MongoDB isn't too complicated of a task. In fact, you can get it done with around 35 lines of code!

However, maybe your stack doesn't consist of Java, but instead Kotlin. What needs to be done to use Kotlin for AWS Lambda and MongoDB development? The good news is not much will be different!

In this tutorial, we'll see how to create a simple AWS Lambda function. It will use Kotlin as the programming language and it will use the MongoDB Kotlin driver for interacting with MongoDB.

Serverless Development with AWS Lambda and MongoDB Atlas Using Java

July 23, 2023 Nic Raboy

So you need to build an application that will scale with demand and a database to scale with it? It might make sense to explore serverless functions, like those offered by AWS Lambda, and a cloud database like MongoDB Atlas.

Serverless functions are great because you can implement very specific logic in the form of a function and the infrastructure will scale automatically to meet the demand of your users. This will spare you from having to spend potentially large amounts of money on always on, but not always needed, infrastructure. Pair this with an elastically scalable database like MongoDB Atlas, and you've got an amazing thing in the works.

In this tutorial, we're going to explore how to create a serverless function with AWS Lambda and MongoDB, but we're going to focus on using Java, one of the available AWS Lambda runtimes.

Delivering a Near Real-Time Single View into Operations with a Federated Database

April 17, 2023 Nic Raboy

So the data within your organization spans across multiple databases, database platforms, and even storage types, but you need to bring it together and make sense of the data that's dispersed. This is referred to as a Single View application and it is a common need for many organizations, so you're not alone!

With MongoDB Data Federation, you can seamlessly query, transform, and aggregate your data from one or more locations, such as within a MongoDB database, AWS S3 buckets, and even HTTP API endpoints. In other words, with Data Federation, you can use the MongoDB Query API to work with your data even if it doesn't exist within MongoDB.

What's a scenario where this might make sense?

Let's say you're in the automotive or supply chain industries. You have customer data that might exist within MongoDB, but your parts vendors run their own businesses external to yours. However, there's a need to pair the parts data with transactions for any particular customer. In this scenario, you might want to be able to create queries or views that bring each of these pieces together.

In this tutorial, we're going to see how quick and easy it is to work with MongoDB Data Federation to create custom views that might aid your sales and marketing teams.

Interact with MongoDB in an AWS Lambda Function Using Go

January 25, 2023 Nic Raboy

If you're a Go developer and you're looking to go serverless, AWS Lambda is a solid choice that will get you up and running in no time. But what happens when you need to connect to your database? With serverless functions, also known as functions as a service (FaaS), you can never be sure about the uptime of your function or how it has chosen to scale automatically with demand. For this reason, concurrent connections to your database, which aren't infinite, happen a little differently. In other words, we want to be efficient in how connections and interactions to the database are made.

In this tutorial we'll see how to create a serverless function using the Go programming language and that function will connect to and query MongoDB Atlas in an efficient manner.

Use Sendy To Build And Maintain An Email List For Cheap

February 12, 2018 Nic Raboy

When you're building a business, the experts all say that you should make your list building strategy a priority. Using social networks like Twitter and Facebook for your marketing is great, but those might not be around forever. Email has been around for a long time and it will likely exist a long time into the future as well.

I've briefly mentioned this before, but I'm currently using Sendy to manage my email subscribers and send out my monthly newsletter. However, I wasn't always using Sendy to accomplish this task. For around a year, I was using Mailchimp, a similar product.

We're going to see what Sendy is, how to use it, and why I'm using it over the various alternatives that exist.

TPDP Episode #14: Object Storage for Application Developers

June 14, 2017 Nic Raboy

I am pleased to announce that the latest episode of The Polyglot Developer Podcast is now available to download from all the popular podcasting networks. In this episode titled, Object Storage for Application Developers, I’m joined by Krishna Srinivas from Minio to talk about what object storage is and the various solutions that are available.

Episode #14 can be downloaded for free from iTunes, Pocket Casts, and every other popular network, but it can also be heard below.

Host A Podcast For Cheap On Amazon’s S3 Service

April 18, 2016 Nic Raboy

This year was the year that I started two different podcasts, one titled The Polyglot Developer Podcast and the other being The NoSQL Database Podcast. I’ve been getting a few questions regarding this, but people are asking where I’m hosting the episodes.

This is a great question!

I’m actually hosting these podcasts using Amazon’s S3 service because it is cheap and incredibly easy to get set up with. I’m going to walk through the steps I took to make this possible, and share the fees that I’m experiencing as of right now.