A Serverless Payment Workflow using AWS Lambda and the AWS CDK

Tue, 15 Dec 2020 17:38:12 +0200

Serverless technology is getting more popular by the day. More and more people are starting to experiment with it and learn for which use cases it can add value. In this blog post I share an example of what a fully Serverless workflow can achieve.

For a while now I’ve been curious how one would implement a payment workflow on a website. I was aware that platforms like Stripe, Adyen and Mollie exist, but I never knew how much work would be required to set up a fully functioning workflow. I therefore decided to give it a try using nothing but Serverless technology.

Building serverless applications with the AWS CDK - and testing them locally

Fri, 31 May 2019 16:35:02 +0200

The AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) is a new framework for defining Infrastructure as Code (IaC) by AWS. It allows you to write IaC in a set of different languages. At the moment the following languages are supported: Javascript, Typescript, Python, Java, .NET. Support for other languages is coming.

Of course, other methods like CloudFormation and Terraform already exist to write IaC. Using these tools you write declarative code in YAML, JSON or the Hashicorp Configuration Language (HCL) in a mostly declarative state. These tools will also support some basic operators such as if-statements and for-loops. Especially HCL has many of these capabilities with the latest 0.12.0 release. However, it will always be different from using a “real” programming language. And it requires you to use a new tool, instead of using a language you already know.

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A Serverless Payment Workflow using AWS Lambda and the AWS CDK

Building serverless applications with the AWS CDK - and testing them locally