Luciano Mammino

The other week I was looking into some Docker shenanigans, specifically SOCI (Seekable OCI). In a nutshell, SOCI builds an index of the contents of your container image layers, so that a container can start before the whole image has been downloaded, and the files it needs are lazily fetched as they are accessed. (Spoiler: there will probably be an AWS Bites episode about SOCI soon, so stay tuned there if you are curious.) While reading about compressed layers, indexes and lazy loading, I…

There is one pattern that has been my secret sauce for AWS Lambda code for almost as long as I have been writing AWS Lambda code: the middleware pattern. If you have touched a modern web framework in the last decade (Express, Fastify, NestJS, Laravel, Django, Rails, FastAPI, … take your pick), you have almost certainly used this pattern, probably without even noticing. It is everywhere, and I love it! I love it so much that, back in 2017, I started an open source project called Middy just to…

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