If you have not properly prepared, debugging some requests may be impossible with your current level of instrumentation and tooling. So what is the best way to debug serverless apps and serverless requests? The blog post describes how we debug the serverless backend for our SenseDeep Serverless Developer Studio service…

The SenseDeep Data browser is a DynamoDB data browser and editor that can be used to query, manage and modify your DynamoDB data. Developers are adopting DynamoDB single-table design patterns as the preferred design model where all application data is packed into a single-table. …

Introducing the SenseDeep DynamoDB Studio. SenseDeep has a complete DynamoDB developer studio to support your DynamoDB designs and single-table development. It includes a table manager, data item browser, single-table designer, provisioning planner, database migration manager and in-depth table metrics. SenseDeep DynamoDB studio is a comprehensive set of DynamoDB tools that are single-table “aware”. This means…

Best practices for DynamoDB have evolved to favor single-table design patterns where one database table serves the entire application and holds multiple different application entities. This design pattern offers greater performance by reducing the number of requests required to retrieve information and lowers operational overhead. …

Serverless apps are an immensely powerful way to build highly scalable and available services. But, serverless apps are also uniquely difficult to monitor, debug and manage due to their distributed components, stateless nature, short execution lifespans and limited access to configuration. Observability has been popularized as the solution to this…

I’m happy to announce the SenseDeep serverless developer studio now has a free plan for individual developers. The developer plan has all the features of SenseDeep for a developer including: full serverless monitoring, management, metrics, unlimited dashboards, logs, lambdas, alarms and notifications. With SenseDeep you’ll be able to troubleshoot your…

SenseLogs is a simple, flexible, dynamic, blazing fast log library designed exclusively for serverless apps using NodeJS. While there are many other good logging libraries that claim to be flexible and fast, they were not designed for serverless. …

DynamoDB OneTable (OneTable) is an access library for DynamoDB applications that use one-table design patterns with NodeJS. OneTable makes dealing with DynamoDB and one-table design patterns dramatically easier while still providing easy access to the full DynamoDB API. We’ve worked very hard to make the OneTable API expressive, terse and…

All enterprise logging solutions ship your log data into their proprietary log storage mechanisms. And thereafter, your log data is accessible only via their interfaces. That is great if the logging solution does 100% of what you need today and tomorrow. …