Top Links from Issue #107

This issue was published on September 15, 2020

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Most Popular Links

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What We Have Learned While Using AWS Lambda in Our Production Cycles for More than One Year by Maxim Vynohradov
Over the last few years, serverless approaches have gained decent traction in the web app designing, developing and implementing sectors. In the early days, many engineers treated serverless just like another hype.

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Event-Driven Containers with Lambda and Fargate by Miles Hill
Serverless containers provisioned by Fargate and triggered by Lambda good. PyODBC deployed on Lambda bad. Use Fargate for long-running jobs or jobs that are well supported as containers and minimize CICD build complexity.

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Serverless Architecture: Lambda Triggers and Design Patterns [Part 2]
This is part of a series of articles discussing strategies to implement serverless architectural design patterns. We continue to follow this literature review. Although we use AWS serverless services to illustrate concepts, they can be applied in different cloud providers.

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The Complete AWS Lambda Handbook for Beginners (Part 1)
Welcome to the Serverless world. One of the first things you’ll hear about is AWS Lambda - and you’ll continue to keep hearing about it! While architecture can be serverless without Lambdas involved, it’s very often the key component within a serverless application.

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.

Simpsons Against DevOps by Simpsons Against DevOps
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What We Learned From Building a Serverless E-Commerce Website on AWS to Combat COVID-19 by Samuel James
2020 turned out to be radically different from what everyone had expected. COVID-19 has impacted our lives in many ways. As the pandemic spread, one question that baffled us was: what can we do with technology to combat the virus?.

AWS Serverless Feedback by Brian Pfeil
Feedback on serverless usage on AWS. Based on working with and observations of the teams that leverage the set of AWS “serverless” services. Feedback format is Challenge and Suggestion for a given topic, concept, service, or feature.

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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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