Top Links from Issue #120

This issue was published on December 15, 2020

Code is a (financial) liability... 💰

In this issue, we attempt to muster the energy for yet another week of AWS re:Invent, we see how easy it is to run up huge cloud bills, and we share several awesome serverless reads. Read the full issue...

Most Popular Links

Below are the most popular links from Issue #120 as chosen by our Off-by-none email subscribers. Sign up for the newsletter and help choose the most popular links each week!

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Choosing the right event-routing on AWS: EventBridge, SNS, or SQS by Dhaval Nagar
Serverless is synonymous with Event-Driven Architecture, where Events are a fundamental block of information that is passed around to execute certain application logic.

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AWS Proton is Conway’s Law-as-a-Service by Forrest Brazeal
Is that a good thing? It’s … different, anyhow AWS Proton launched in preview last week to great fanfare and even greater confusion.

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Architect 8.3: custom file paths & much more by Ryan Block
By popular demand: OpenJS Architect 8.3 (El Chupacabra) now supports custom file paths, custom Lambda templates, a fresh new local (and global) preferences file, and lots more!

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Cleanup the node_modules for a lighter Lambda Function
Any nodejs project carries a bulky folder - the node_modules - that carries all the modules and dependencies that the application would need. If you try to peep into that folder, you can see a huge chunk of folders and files.

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Serverless applications are Hyperobjects… and it really matters by Paul Johnston
When building a complex system, it’s often really hard to hold all the elements of that system in your head. Then things get added to it, and added to it, and after a while, the application is too much for one person to understand except in the broad and abstract “it does this”.

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.

More than just event bus - EventBridge drill down by Yossi Ittach
A few months ago we discussed which AWS service you could use to deploy a Pub-Sub solution and mentioned EventBridge as a leading candidate. But EventBridge capabilities make it more than just another event bus, and we'd like to drill down these options.

Amazon DynamoDB Deep Dive. Chapter 2: Tables, Data types, Indexes, Capacity Units by Karen Tovmasyan
AWS DEEP DIVE SERIESAmazon DynamoDB Deep Dive.

6 quick ways to cut cost on your Lambdas
We've talked about how serverless architecture is a great option for companies that are looking to optimize costs.

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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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