Top Links from Issue #112
This issue was published on October 20, 2020
Optimizing the cost of serverless... 💰
In this issue, we get a recap of a very serverless third quarter, add resiliency with circuit breakers, and get a lesson in privacy. Read the full issue...
Most Popular Links
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Add Resiliency To Your Lambda Function with a Circuit Breaker
The AWS Well-Architected Framework helps you understand the pros and cons of decisions you make while building systems on AWS. By using the Framework, you will learn architectural best practices for designing and operating reliable, secure, efficient, and cost-effective systems in the cloud.
Infrastructure as Code only works as Code… by Frédéric Barthelet
The popular Serverless framework allows you to use YAML or JSON to describe and version your infrastructure configuration. The serverless.yml or serverless.json file stored at the project root is used by default to provision any project using this framework.
Architect 8.0: HTTP catchall syntax, @proxy, new HTTP methods, npm 7 compat by Ryan Block
OpenJSF Architect powers thousands of real production serverless applications all over the world. We continue to hear how valuable folks find its focused, direct, stable, lock-in-free approach to building blazing fast modern web apps without ever having to manage a single server.
New Features: TLS in Free Tier, Team Support, US-WEST Region and Budget Support by Sven Anderson
We continue to improve Lambda Store with new features and enhancements. I need to thank our users first, as they help us what to improve by sending us emails, messages and twitter comments. Here the 3 features that we have added lately:
ICYMI: Serverless Q3 2020 by James Beswick
Welcome to the 11th edition of the AWS Serverless ICYMI (in case you missed it) quarterly recap. Every quarter, we share all of the most recent product launches, feature enhancements, blog posts, webinars, Twitch live streams, and other interesting things that you might have missed!
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.
Circuit breaker for AWS Lambda - circuitbreaker-lambda
circuitbreaker-lambda is a basic Node module for using the circuit breaker pattern in AWS Lambda (https://aws.amazon.com/lambda) and general async functions. It relies on a pass/fail assumption.
Can AWS Lambda Access A Database? And The Considerations You Should Be Taking. by LOU
Architecting solutions using AWS Lambda means understanding many nuances in how AWS works, and a main consideration for our application architecture is the database. So we’ll need to need to know whether AWS Lambda can connect to a database at all, and what our options are.
Basic Authentication with Lambda@Edge by Sebastian Pettersson
Recently I was asked to "secure" (as in; make it not super public) a static website, hosted in S3, by adding Basic Authentication as a quick and dirty solution to just require a simple password in order to access the site.
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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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