Top Links from Issue #104

This issue was published on August 25, 2020

Service Integrations for HTTP APIs are (kinda) here! 😐

In this issue, we look at the new service integration support for HTTP APIs, see more support for JAMstack, and welcome some new heroes. Read the full issue...

Most Popular Links

Below are the most popular links from Issue #104 as chosen by our Off-by-none email subscribers. Sign up for the newsletter and help choose the most popular links each week!

Serverless-Flow: A CI/CD Branching Workflow Optimized for Speed and Quality by Ben Ellerby
The ephemerality of Serverless architectural components, coupled with the pay-per-use pricing model, allows us to have rapidly deployable, cheap and disposable environments when working with Serverless-First architectures. No longer are we constricted to Dev, Staging, UAT and Prod environments.

Realtime Monitor for EventBridge Traffic by Ken Robbins
Continuously monitor and pretty print Amazon EventBridge traffic. Given its simplicity, Amazon EventBridge is a deceptively effective tool for building event-driven serverless architectures.

API Gateway HTTP APIs adds integration with five AWS services
Customers can now create Amazon API Gateway HTTP APIs that route requests to AWS AppConfig, Amazon EventBridge, Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, Amazon SQS, and AWS Step Functions.

How I Write Meaningful Tests for AWS Lambda Functions by Paul Singman
If you are going to write meaningless unit tests that are more likely to mask errors than expose them, you are better off skipping the exercise altogether. There, I said it.

How to Easily Load Test Serverless Apps With Postman and AWS by Allen Helton
When you mention load testing to a software engineer, nine times out of 10 you see a slight wince in their face. Why? Because historically, load tests have been painful.

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.

Serverless, Testing, and two Thinking Hats
I've recently started a new video series - Cloud Coffee Break - and a subject I start covering in episode two is what I suggest for testing serverless applications.

Full Stack Serverless - Building a Real-time Chat App with GraphQL, CDK, AppSync, and React
In this tutorial you will learn how to build and deploy a real-time full stack cloud application to AWS using CDK, React, GraphQL, and AWS AppSync.

The Architecture of Amazon’s DynamoDB and Why Its Performance Is So High by Meg's tech
DynamoDB is a NoSQL database provided by Amazon Web Service (AWS). It can provide extremely high performance, more than 10 trillion requests per day with peaks greater than 20 million requests per second, and can support virtually any size with horizontal scaling.

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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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