AWS
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Build a QR Code Lambda and Call It From Laravel
A hands-on, beginner-friendly build: write a tiny Python AWS Lambda that turns text into a QR code, run it locally in Docker with no AWS account, and call it from a Laravel app. Every line of Python is explained for developers coming from PHP.
Deploy a Lambda Container Image With ECR and the Console
You built a QR code Lambda and ran it locally. Now put it on AWS the click-through way: create an Amazon ECR repository, push your image, and create the Lambda from that image in the console. Then test it and optionally expose it with a Function URL your Laravel app can call.
Orchestrating Lambdas with Step Functions
Step Functions let you wire Lambdas into workflows with retries, branching, and parallelism, but you do not always need them. Here is an honest guide to when a state machine earns its keep, then a real parallel pipeline built with the modern JSONata syntax, deployed with SAM and tested locally.
Give Your Lambda an HTTP Front Door
Your Lambda works, but how should the world call it? This is a practical tour of the options: invoking directly, Lambda function URLs, and Amazon API Gateway, with a clear guide to what each one buys you. Then we build an HTTP API with SAM, test it locally, and call it from a Laravel app.
Package a Python Lambda as a Docker Image
AWS Lambda is not just zip files. Here is how to package a Python function as a Docker container image, choose between arm64 and x86_64, test it locally with the Runtime Interface Emulator, push it to Amazon ECR, and invoke it directly without any API Gateway in front.