Top Links from Issue #106

This issue was published on September 8, 2020

Serverless Adoption at AWS... 🚀

In this issue, we learn the names of all 168 AWS Services (via song), chat with Holly Mesrobian about adopting serverless at AWS, and get plenty of troubleshooting advice. Read the full issue...

Most Popular Links

Below are the most popular links from Issue #106 as chosen by our Off-by-none email subscribers. Sign up for the newsletter and help choose the most popular links each week!

The Ultimate Cheatsheet for AWS Solutions Architect Exam (SAA-C02) — Part 1 by Michael King
Professionals with AWS certifications are highly in demand and jobs are paid very well too. And the outlook for Cloud Computing in general is very promising. In case you’ve decided to dive into a new territory, AWS Solutions Architect (Associate) certification may be a good place to start.

Resilient Engineer: AWS & Serverless Best Practices by Mark Fowler
At my work our teams continue to develop acclaimed serverless digital solutions. We see their complexity and scope grow nearly daily.

Building Battle-Tested Well-Architected Apps: Learnings from Real Life
In this article I’ll be sharing my own lessons learned with Dashbird in building reliable Well-Architected serverless applications and the highest impact areas to focus on no matter where you are in the Serverless journey.

Migrating to Serverless: Building the Bridge by Thomas Schoffelen
When we built the first version of Street Art Cities, we didn’t think it would become a global community with tens of thousands of monthly active users.

A Serverless Set-Piece Development Case Study — Back-in-Stock Email Notification by Sheen Brisals
In the previous article “Think and Develop Serverless Applications as Set-Pieces”, we saw how a serverless application can be thought of as a collection of set-pieces and developed as independent smaller services. In this article, we will see how to apply the set-pieces concept in practice.

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.

Real-world Node.JS TDD example by Pierre Criulanscy
A walkthrough of a real-world example of applying TDD to develop a Node.JS lambda function. Featuring graphQL API call and upload to an Amazon S3 Bucket. I was recently asked to develop a little lambda function to periodically generate XML sitemaps and upload them to an Amazon S3 Bucket.

Roadmap to Cloud Jobs: how and why to become a Cloud Engineer
As of 2019, over 50% of global enterprises use at least one public cloud platform for their everyday business operations. Today that number has jumped to nearly 68%, with many analysts predicting a similar, if not greater, jump into 2021.

Forrest Brazeal by Forrest Brazeal
168 AWS services in 2 minutes. *inhales*

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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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