Top Links from Issue #228

This issue was published on April 4, 2023

Lattice not worry about networking 🌐

In this issue, Amazon VPC Lattice goes GA, Cloudflare workers get more 'nodey', and SSM Parameter Store still reigns supreme. Read the full issue...

Most Popular Links

Below are the most popular links from Issue #228 as chosen by our Off-by-none email subscribers. Sign up for the newsletter and help choose the most popular links each week!

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Simplify Service-to-Service Connectivity, Security, and Monitoring with Amazon VPC Lattice – Now Generally Available by Danilo Poccia
At AWS re:Invent 2022, we introduced in preview Amazon VPC Lattice, a new capability of Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) that gives you a consistent way to connect, secure, and monitor communication between your services.

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Announcing the general availability of Amazon VPC Lattice
Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon VPC Lattice, an application networking service that simplifies connecting, securing, and monitoring service-to-service communication.

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Observability as a Software Development Tool by DeveloperSteve
This blog was written by Florian Schaeffler, Senior Software Engineer and Owner of Largun, a Lumigo partner. Software development tools help developers create and deploy software. Examples include code editors, IDEs, and version control systems.

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The Old Faithful: Why SSM Parameter Store still reigns over Secrets Manager
Managing and securing application secrets is a crucial part of any cloud-native application. AWS offers two primary services: the Systems Manager (SSM) Parameter Store and the more recent Secrets Manager.

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Serverless deployment process by Thiwanka Wickramage
This article share my experience I have faced creating deployment process for our serverless application. The client is a UK-based fintech company specializing in financial management systems and process reengineering. The project was a complete serverless application that run on AWS Cloud.

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.

AWS Lambda: Lessons learned over 5 years and 100 functions in production
At onoranzefunebricloud.com we provide funeral agencies with digital solutions to do their best work, and to build such complex tools we use a combination of AWS services including dockerized applications in Fargate and lot of Serverless tools such as Lambda.

Amazon CloudFront announces support for HTTP status and response generation using CloudFront Functions
Starting today, you can use CloudFront Functions to further customize responses to viewers, including changing the HTTP status code and replacing the HTTP body of the response.

Amazon SNS launches the Extended Client Library for Python to support payloads up to 2GB
Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) has introduced an open-source Extended Client Library for Python that enables you to publish and deliver large message payloads. Previously, only the Extended Client Library for Java was available.

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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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