How Vercel Shipped Cron Jobs in 2 Months Using Amazon EventBridge Scheduler

Vercel implemented Cron Jobs using Amazon EventBridge Scheduler, enabling their customers to create, manage, and run scheduled tasks at scale. The adoption of this feature was rapid, reaching over 7 million weekly cron invocations within a few months of release. This article shows how they did it and how they handle the massive scale they’re experiencing. Vercel builds a front-end cloud that makes it easier for engineers to deploy and run their front-end applications. With more than 100 million deployments in Vercel in the last two years, Vercel helps users take advantage of best-in-class AWS infrastructure with zero configuration by relying heavily on serverless technology. Vercel provides a lot of features that help developers host their front-end applications. However, until…

AWS Weekly Roundup – AWS AppSync, AWS CodePipeline, Events and More – August 21, 2023

In a few days, I will board a plane towards the south. My tour around Latin America starts. But I won’t be alone in this adventure, you can find some other News Blog authors, like Jeff or Seb, speaking at AWS Community Days and local events in Peru, Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay. If you see us, come and say hi. We would love to meet you. Last Week’s Launches Here are some launches that got my attention during the previous week. AWS AppSync now supports JavaScript for all resolvers in GraphQL APIs – Last year, we announced that AppSync now supports JavaScript pipeline resolvers. And starting last week, developers can use JavaScript to write unit resolvers, pipeline resolvers, and AppSync…

How GoDaddy Implemented a Multi-Region Event-Driven Platform at Scale

GoDaddy, a leading global provider of domain registration and web hosting services, has served over 84 million domains and 22 million customers since its establishment in 1997. Among its various internal systems, the Customer Signal Platform provides tooling to capture, analyze, and act on customer and product data to drive better business outcomes. With this platform, GoDaddy can track user visits and interactions on its website and use meaningful event data to improve its customer experience and overall business performance. Nowadays, the Customer Signal Platform processes 400 million events every day. As GoDaddy expands its integrations, it aims to increase this number to 2 billion events per day in the near future. When building the Customer Signal Platform, GoDaddy had…

AWS Week in Review – Automate DLQ Redrive for SQS, Lambda Supports Ruby 3.2, and More – June 12, 2023

Today I’m boarding a plane for Madrid. I will attend the AWS Summit Madrid this Thursday, and I will take Serverlesspresso with me. Serverlesspresso is a demo that we take to events, in where you can learn how to build event-driven architectures with serverless. If you are visiting an AWS Summit, most probably you will find one of our booths. Last Week’s Launches Here are some launches that got my attention during the previous week. Amazon SQS – Customers were very excited when we announced the DLQ redrive for Amazon SQS as that feature helped them to easily redirect the failed messages. This week we added support for AWS SDK and CLI for this feature, allowing you to redrive the…