Daniel Broadhurst

Tools

Research you can use on Monday.

Free tools built on my MSc research into serverless performance and cost: 160 benchmark runs on AWS Lambda, turned into answers. Nothing you enter leaves your browser.

  1. 011 minuteWhich serverless orchestration?Four questions about your workload, one answer: direct invocation, SQS, EventBridge or Step Functions, the memory to give it, and what the choice costs you.Open →
  2. 025 minutesServerless architecture reviewMap a whole Lambda workflow hop by hop. Get the right pattern for every hand-off and memory for every function, the latency and cost difference, and an ADR for your team.Open →
  3. 0330 secondsServerless template checkPaste a SAM or CloudFormation template. It flags oversized memory, Step Functions that are really a straight line, one-consumer EventBridge rules and Provisioned Concurrency sizing.Open →

How the research was done, and what it found: Direct, SQS, EventBridge or Step Functions? What 160 Lambda Benchmarks Say.