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Paul Obayuwana

Paul Obayuwana

@pauxiel

Paul Obayuwana is a cloud developer and AWS Solutions Architect in Canada. He builds serverless systems and CI/CD pipelines, and writes about AWS at pauloba.com.

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Testing Serverless Beyond the Handler

Testing Serverless Beyond the Handler

October 13, 2026•11 min read

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