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Expert · 5–6 weeks

Hybrid Serverless + Containers Workload Platform

Event-triggered Lambda for bursty workloads; ECS Fargate for steady-state APIs. Shared event bus, unified observability, and cost analysis dashboard.

Why this project

Cost and architecture trade-offs are staff/architect territory. Shows cloud-native maturity.

Tech stack

Java 17AWS LambdaECS FargateAPI GatewayEventBridgeTerraformGraalVM native optional

Skills demonstrated

  • Workload placement
  • Cost optimization
  • Event-driven compute
  • IaC

Interview talking points

  • When you chose Lambda vs container
  • Cold start mitigation
  • VPC Lambda latency trade-off
  • Cost savings you measured

Problem statement

Event-triggered Lambda for bursty workloads; ECS Fargate for steady-state APIs. Shared event bus, unified observability, and cost analysis dashboard.