Top Links from Issue #227

This issue was published on March 28, 2023

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Most Popular Links

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What you should know about DynamoDB Streams by /about
DynamoDB Streams is one of my favorite features of DynamoDB. It powers a bunch of cool integrations (hello, Global Tables and Rockset)! It also enables really useful patterns within your own applications, such as materialized aggregations or updates to reduce transaction contention.

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A Comrehensive Guide to AWS Lambda by Anthony Njuguna
AWS Lambda is a serverless computing platform for running code without having to worry about managing servers or infrastructure. You only pay for compute time that your code runs. Lambda layers are a way to package and reuse code in AWS Lambda functions.

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15 AWS Lambda Use Cases: Unleashing the Full Potential of Serverless Computing
AWS Lambda has revolutionized the way we build and deploy applications, allowing developers to focus on writing code without worrying about server management.

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Let’s Talk Events: A Jargon-Free Journey into Event-Driven Architecture by Usman Aslam
Welcome to the world of event-driven architecture (EDA)! In our daily lives, we’re constantly surrounded by events — birthdays, holidays, football games, and so on. Just like these real-life events, digital events also play a significant role in the world of computer systems.

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Nano , Micro and Monolith services in Serverless world by Kumologica
Introduction of Serverless architecture has made the integration and microservice application developers to look the design of their applications through a different perspective.

Honorable Mentions

There are so many great blog posts, tutorials, use cases, and more shared each week by the #serverless community, that picking just a few to feature is really hard. So here are some other honorable mentions chosen by our readers.

Triggering ECS Fargate Tasks via HTTP Request by dragondrop.cloud
An ECS Fargate Task is serverless compute for long-running container executions. This is similar to GCP’s Cloud Run Job service, or Azure Container Instances.

Release 1.78.0 - SAM Accelerate Skip Infra Sync and Python3.10 Support
CLI tool to build, test, debug, and deploy Serverless applications using AWS SAM - Release Release 1.78.0 - SAM Accelerate Skip Infra Sync and Python3.10 Support · aws/aws-sam-cli

Hacking AWS Account via AWS Lambda SSRF by Sena Yakut
Server-side request forgery (SSRF) attack is used for abusing functionality on the server to read or update internal resources. The main idea behind an SSRF attack is to manipulate the input parameters of an application that interact with external systems, such as URLs, IP addresses, or file paths.

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About the Author

Jeremy is the CEO and Founder of Ampt and an AWS Serverless Hero that has a soft spot for helping people solve problems using serverless. He frequently consults with companies and developers transitioning away from the traditional “server-full” approach. You can find him ranting about serverless on Twitter, in several forums and Slack groups, hosting the Serverless Chats podcast, and at conferences around the world.

 

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