Top Links from Issue #108

This issue was published on September 22, 2020

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Most Popular Links

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AWS Serverless and Microservices by Naresh Waswani
Part 2 — Covers Designing of Asynchronous event submission using API Gateway, SQS and Lambda. And how to implement Saga Orchestration Pattern with Serverless Step Function service.

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Why Did We Start Using AWS Secrets Manager To Store Sensitive Data?
👋 Hi. I'm Sunil. In this article I'm going to talk about why we started using AWS Secrets Manager to manage sensitive data like passwords, keys, tokens etc used in our applications.

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Self-Hosted Lambda Monitoring and Alerting With Slack by Chris Plankey
Over the past few years I have tried many monitoring solutions for my Serverless stacks and while there are many solutions out there, what I felt was lacking was the ability to host these solutions in your own account without sending logs to a vendor’s AWS account.

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Going from Wordpress to serverless, unhackable high-speed static websites by Justin Güse
I have been building websites in the past, but have always been struggling with the slow performance of WordPress. If it is loaded with plugins, it will need quite some resources and can be a pain if you are just developing an idea on a small server.

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Architect 7.0: HTTP APIs and even better Sandbox testing! by Ryan Block
OpenJSF Architect now powers thousands of serverless applications all over the world. Folks continue to tell us they value its focused, direct, stable, lock-in-free approach to building blazing fast modern web apps without ever having to manage a single server.

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 API Gateway: HTTP vs REST
I was recently looking into API Gateways for a project. As I was reading up on AWS’ API Gateway, I realized that there were two options that I could potentially choose: REST APIs or HTTP APIs.

This is all you need to know about Lambda cold starts by Yan Cui
So much has been written about Lambda cold starts. It’s easily one of the most talked-about and yet, misunderstood topics when it comes to Lambda. Depending on who you talk to, you will likely get different advice on how best to reduce cold starts.

Using Serverless Framework and CDK together by Frank Wang
While helping folks work through our Serverless Stack guide, we noticed that most folks have a really hard time using CloudFormation templates to define their AWS infrastructure.

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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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