Intro AWS Serverless Application Model or SAM for short is an Opensource dev tool for building serverless applications on AWS. SAM is a bunch of templates that help defining Infrastructure as Code for serverless applications. Think CloudFormation with shortcuts! I was recently working on a serverless app and had to deploy an API gateway with SSL Certs. The domain was hosted on Route53 and that means all of this can be managed using SAM. Read more

There are a ton of cloud providers around town. Starting from the mom and pop shops, to co-located Data center providers to full blown cloud infra providers. For a beginner, there’s absolutely no shortage of options to start off with. In fact, it will overwhelm a beginner to the point of confusion and frustration. Read more