Over the weekend, I had some fun and experimented with Haxe. For those unaware, Haxe is a typed multi-platform high-level programming language mostly used for game development, such as the indie hit Deadcells. While exporting to JavaScript, I thought, “Hey, would this work with Lambda?” Sure, enough, it can.

Is it very practical? I’m not so sure. Haxe isn’t as popular as Python or JavaScript, therefore not having as much third-party support, and Haxe isn’t run directly but rather as an exported language of your choice. …

TetraForce is an open-source multiplayer action-adventure RPG inspired by the popular Zelda game, Link's Awakening. It uses Godot’s built-in UDP networking library and scripting language for most of the game’s logic.

The main developers managing the project are fornclake and TheRetroDragon. Back in July, I got in contact with them to discuss putting TetraForce into the cloud! Within a week, TetraForce was running on AWS. Since then, there have been many gradual improvements to get the project where it is today.

For a summary of this project, the Amazon Elastic Container Service cluster manages and runs TetraForce’s containers using a…

Over a year ago now, I came across a fancy little library called Zappa. For those unaware, Zappa is a serverless framework for Flask and Django. In this case, it runs on the AWS cloud using API Gateway to call lambda functions. It is an excellent solution for creating REST APIs or low traffic website, and since it is serverless, it can scale relatively easily. So let’s launch a simple flask application with Zappa.

Our requirements.txt

Zappa is a framework for Flask, so that means python. Luckily because it’s in python, as long as you have it installed correctly, additional dependencies are…