Majd Soufan

AWS Cloud Solutions Architect

[Majd Soufan @Majd95RF]

Very excited to share this new serverless pattern that I have published with my brother @MohamadSoufan4 to ServerlessLand
This is the only automated CDK pattern on the internet that will provision all necessary resources to deploy DocumentDB CDC stream
https://t.co/A2hqiV3l8i

[Majd Soufan @Majd95RF]

Very excited to share this new serverless & functionless pattern that I have developed with my twin brother @MohamadSoufan4
This pattern focuses on distributing different events to multiple destinations using DDB Stream, EventPipes, ApiGateway & IoT core

https://t.co/9CXWLyj0YH

[Majd Soufan @Majd95RF]

This is definitely a game changer!
After all the custom scheduling solutions that I built, AWS finally decides to offer us a managed solution with EventBridge service

https://t.co/xQYpPNx9vT
#AWS #Serverless #Scheduler

[Majd Soufan @Majd95RF]

@alexbdebrie 10GB if LSI is created with the Table. Otherwise, no. I am a big fan of fat partitions.

[Majd Soufan @Majd95RF]

@mikepb78 @ednergizer @houlihan_rick @JonNicholsMe @jeremy_daly @alexbdebrie For sure. But they are not offering that for single table design without lambda resolver. I have many lambdas that are transporting data instead of transforming because AppSync does not support SingleTableDesign resolvers. I am paying AWS extra for very minimal value

[Majd Soufan @Majd95RF]

@alexbdebrie @edelman215 @houlihan_rick @NubPro @aeduhm @richdevelops I have recently experienced this in one of my project. Honestly, sometimes it is easier to normalize your GraphQL types in your schema. It makes mapping your schema into the single table much smoother

[Majd Soufan @Majd95RF]

@swaranga @houlihan_rick Also, I always find it useful to have one required field on every single item called “entityType”. It is makes the query output more readable

[Majd Soufan @Majd95RF]

@swaranga @houlihan_rick You don’t need to look at the console to query the table. Just create the magic Excel sheet that Rick always uses. It should contain all your access patterns and you no longer need to scan any tables to understand what the tables contain

[Majd Soufan @Majd95RF]

@mikepb78 @ednergizer @houlihan_rick @JonNicholsMe @jeremy_daly Also, it decouples your micro-services perfectly. Multi table or single table, it does not make a big difference. What make a difference is to be able to apply the single table design patterns that @houlihan_rick and @alexbdebrie have defined and persisted in the Dynamo community

[Majd Soufan @Majd95RF]

@mikepb78 @ednergizer @houlihan_rick @JonNicholsMe @jeremy_daly The #SingleTableDesign does not always mean you have to store all your data in one table. More often I use MultiSingleTables which in my opinion is more efficient when it comes to costs. However, AppSync does not support that

[Majd Soufan @Majd95RF]

@JonNicholsMe @houlihan_rick @jeremy_daly Currently, it is not possible to apply #SingleTableDesign without assigning lambda as your data source. Assigning DynamoDB as a data source expects one entity per table

[Majd Soufan @Majd95RF]

@der_rehan Can you create email identities for SES or phone identities for SNS through CDK? (AWS Pinpoint included)

[DynamoDB @dynamodb]

Want to allow item-level access to a DynamoDB table based on an Amazon Cognito ID? Check out this AWS Identity & Access Management policy: https://t.co/YCgZTw1uQx #NoSQL

[Majd Soufan @Majd95RF]

@NoSQLKnowHow This is a MUST feature when it comes to heavy read tables and GSIs #DynamoDB #CloudWatch

[Majd Soufan @Majd95RF]

@jeremy_daly @dynamodb I used to love Serverless, but honestly nothing beats CDK in provisioning infrastructure #AWS #CDK

[Majd Soufan @Majd95RF]

@aeduhm Last weekend, I worked on a new Lambda project using the NodeJsFunction construct and bundled it with esbuild. I also developed all my code using the Hexagonal architecture that Luca Mezzalira talked about at reinvent.
Future is definitely looking serverless😎

[Majd Soufan @Majd95RF]

@aeduhm @thdxr Very powerful bundling supported by NodeJsFunction construct. I rewrote all my CDK lambdas into NodeJsFunctions #AWS_CDK

[Majd Soufan @Majd95RF]

@zaccharles I had the same concerns with using SES SDK through StepFunction and CDK. CDK does not support any SES actions and you have to use the generic AwsService option.

[Majd Soufan @Majd95RF]

@tpschmidt_ Five points:
1. It is open source
2. You can choose you preferred language. No need to learn a new one
3. You can use general programming principals like if-statement and for-loops
4. You can test your code with unit tests
5. Create your custom CDK package

[Majd Soufan @Majd95RF]

@aeduhm I use Azure DevOps pipelines and use variable groups with secret option to encrypt them at rest #Lambda#AzureDevOps