How I made AWS Lambda work for my SaaS

Over the last year or so I moved all of Checkly's monitoring workloads to AWS Lambda. This was not really feasible before. There are still wonky parts to AWS Lambda specific and serverless in general.

But in most cases, serverless and Lambda are fantastic matches for early and bootstrapped SaaS companies. The linked blog post goes into the following topics:

• A little bit on our Lambda setup.
• Why Lambda is an almost perfect match for SaaS. Especially when you're small.
• Why I don't use a "big" framework around it.
• Why distributed background jobs triggered by queues are Lambda's raison d'être.
• Why monitoring & logging is still an issue.