Top Links from Issue #121

This issue was published on December 22, 2020

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Most Popular Links

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AWS Amplify, SAM, CDK ... What to choose for your Infrastructure as Code on AWS?!? by Ibrahim Cesar
Chances are if you are reading this right now, you have the same questions I got when I started working on provisioning Infrastructure as Code on AWS. After deploying production workloads with each tool, I want to share my insights and my experience with AWS Amplify, SAM and CDK.

Architect 8.4: say hello to Lambda treeshaking by Ryan Block
One of the thing that sets OpenJS Architect apart from other serverless tools is its opinion that serverless apps work best when composed of many small, discrete Lambda cloud functions.

AWS re:Invent - Webiny's Top 5 Picks on Serverless Announcements by albiona
Today we'll present to you Webiny's top 5 picks on serverless announcements. We've been active during the past three weeks on live announcements of AWS re:Invent, focusing on the serverless news that can affect the way we develop software solutions from the cost and performance perspective.

Yan Cui is making the AppSync Masterclass by Yan Cui is making the AppSync Masterclass
Cheatsheet for choosing async event sources for Lambda #serverless

AWS Lambda is winning, but first it had to die by Forrest Brazeal
Is serverless winning? If you ask AWS, they’ll say definitely. Nearly half of all new applications built inside Amazon this year are running on Lambda.

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.

How to migrate your Node.js Lambda functions to AWS SDK v3 by Paul Swail
In my experience with writing Lambda functions, the AWS SDK is often the largest dependency and certainly the most commonly imported one in the apps that I build.

Top Highlights from AWS' re:Invent 2020 Conference for Innovators & Builders
Since becoming an AWS Community Builder on the Data, Databases & Analytics team this Fall, I have often explained the experience to friends, family, and colleagues as one of drinking water from a fire hose.

Mastering AWS Kinesis Data Streams, Part 2 by Anahit Pogosova
This is the second part of the blog post where I talk about the things you should know when working with AWS Kinesis Data Streams. You can find Part 1 here. By now, we have gone into quite some details when it comes to writing your data to a Kinesis stream.

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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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