In Part 1 we saw how we can build an API without having to maintain the whole infrastructure that comes with it, without provisioning or managing servers using two AWS services: API Gateway and AWS Lambdas. We have created two endpoints for our Simple Books API, one for retrieving books…

Some of you might have read one of my previous articles about creating a Rest API using two AWS Services: API Gateway and AWS Lambdas using CloudFormation. At that time we had a setup as the one below (full article here): Notice that we have used an API Gateway with…

Let’s say you would like to build an API without having to maintain the whole infrastructure that comes with it, without provisioning or managing servers, you would like to focus only on how the API looks like and what it should do. …

We use load balancers to distribute traffic across multiple targets such as EC2 instances and as you might already know, AWS offers several types of load balancers: - Application Load Balancers - Network Load Balancers - Classic Load Balancers - Gateway Load Balancers Gateway Load Balancer is the newest type…

Postman has been around for years, but many of my colleagues, including myself, have used it mainly for managing API collections and manual API testing. Postman means so much more. What is a Mock Server? A mock server is used to simulate an API. We can call it a simulated…