Migrating a MERN app to AWS serverless (and what broke)

<p>Terraform is not hard because of syntax. It is hard because real infrastructure work requires state discipline, provider knowledge, module design, cloud architecture, and

<h2> Introduction </h2> <p>Serverless computing has become a buzzword in cloud architecture. But like any tool, it has sweet spots and sharp edges. After building and maintaining

<p>Have you ever clicked a button on a website, only to wait several agonizing seconds for the page to respond, even though it usually loads instantly? This annoying delay is

<p>The codebase was old. React 16 with class components everywhere. React Router v3 with routes-as-children. A webpack 4 config that had been edited by a dozen people over five

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<p>We started the compute layer on Day 13 with EC2, ELB, and Auto Scaling — where you launch and manage everything yourself. Today we move one level up the abstraction ladder:

<p>If you ever want to test how well you really understand something, try explaining it to your mom. That's exactly what I got to do with serverless.</p> <p>My mom has been my

<p>Modern enterprise order processing architectures must decouple synchronous client demands from asynchronous backend dependencies. Here I'll detail a highly scalable,