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Gareth McCumskey

Gareth McCumskey

Gareth is a Customer Success Engineer at Serverless Inc

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Articles by Gareth McCumskey (18)

A Guide to Serverless Architecture
Gareth McCumskeyGareth McCumskey
May 17, 2022

A Guide to Serverless Architecture

In this article learn what serverless architecture is, 3 benefits to using it, and see examples of how it's being used.

ShreyTheCray Interview: Serverless Framework & Cloud Explained
Gareth McCumskeyGareth McCumskey
Mar 31, 2022

ShreyTheCray Interview: Serverless Framework & Cloud Explained

ShreyTheCray interviews Gareth McCumskey as he walks through the purpose, use cases, and process of getting started with the Serverless framework

Getting Started With Serverless Framework
Gareth McCumskeyGareth McCumskey
Jan 27, 2022

Getting Started With Serverless Framework

Here's a tutorial on how to get started with Serverless Framework 3 in just a few minutes!

Container Image Support for AWS Lambda
Gareth McCumskeyGareth McCumskey
Dec 27, 2020

Container Image Support for AWS Lambda

Container Image Support for AWS Lambda has now been added. Read up on why you may (or may not) want to use it and how easy it is to use with the framework

Serverless is the ultimate place to experiment
Gareth McCumskeyGareth McCumskey
Jul 6, 2020

Serverless is the ultimate place to experiment

If all you want to do is play around and try stuff without worrying bills and costs, serverless is the place for you!

CI/CD for monorepos
Gareth McCumskeyGareth McCumskey
Mar 6, 2020

CI/CD for monorepos

How do we deploy services all collected under a single monorepo in git?

Managing Stages and Environments
Gareth McCumskeyGareth McCumskey
Feb 17, 2020

Managing Stages and Environments

Being able to manage multiple different stages of deployment within different environments is essential, and Serverless Framework Pro shows you how

Promotion Pipelines
Gareth McCumskeyGareth McCumskey
Feb 11, 2020

Promotion Pipelines

Find out what deployment strategies Serverless Framework Pro's CI/CD feature gives us for managing deployments as a team

How to Troubleshoot Serverless API’s
Gareth McCumskeyGareth McCumskey
Jan 24, 2020

How to Troubleshoot Serverless API’s

Find out how we go about debugging and troubleshooting our Serverless APIs with Serverless Framework Pro

Provisioned Concurrency: What it is and how to use it with the Serverless Framework
Gareth McCumskeyGareth McCumskey
Dec 3, 2019

Provisioned Concurrency: What it is and how to use it with the Serverless Framework

If you were trying to use Lambda in a use case that was very latency sensitive, cold starts were probably your greatest concern. AWS has heard the concerns

All the Serverless announcements at re:Invent 2019
Gareth McCumskeyGareth McCumskey
Dec 2, 2019

All the Serverless announcements at re:Invent 2019

Not at AWS re:Invent? That's ok; we're compiling all the most important serverless announcements and updates. Updating live all week.

Running cron jobs in the cloud - Amazon EC2 vs AWS Lambda
Gareth McCumskeyGareth McCumskey
Oct 31, 2019

Running cron jobs in the cloud - Amazon EC2 vs AWS Lambda

In this article, we compare Amazon EC2 and AWS Lambda for running cron jobs in AWS and offer guidance for when to choose which of the two.

Creating, monitoring, and testing cron jobs on AWS
Gareth McCumskeyGareth McCumskey
Oct 23, 2019

Creating, monitoring, and testing cron jobs on AWS

In this article we walk you through how to create a cron job on AWS using AWS Lambda and Serverless Framework and how to get the right alerts and security measures in place.

Secrets Management for AWS Powered Serverless Applications
Gareth McCumskeyGareth McCumskey
Aug 2, 2019

Secrets Management for AWS Powered Serverless Applications

Storing application secrets in serverless applications is a hot topic that provokes many (often contradictory) opinions on how to manage them right.

Plugins Support Program
Gareth McCumskeyGareth McCumskey
Jul 11, 2019

Plugins Support Program

With the importance of plugins to the Serverless ecosystem, we had to find a way to thank our community and offer our support

How to Create a Serverless GraphQL API for MySQL, Postgres and Aurora
Gareth McCumskeyGareth McCumskey
Jul 2, 2019

How to Create a Serverless GraphQL API for MySQL, Postgres and Aurora

Learn how you can build a serverless GraphQL API for MySQL, Postgres and Aurora DB.

Serverless Microservices in a Team
Gareth McCumskeyGareth McCumskey
Jun 25, 2019

Serverless Microservices in a Team

How do we build Serverless microservices as a team?

Serverless Local Development
Gareth McCumskeyGareth McCumskey
May 30, 2019

Serverless Local Development

We're building serverless applications as collections of serverless microservices dependant on cloud infrastructure. So how do we develop locally?