Top Links from Issue #124

This issue was published on January 12, 2021

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Most Popular Links

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How less than a cup of coffee per month photo sharing website is made by manbehindlens.com
Serverless architectures are self-contained architectures that don’t need to run, maintain servers. You only pay for the use of services, not servers. Your application still runs on servers, but AWS does all the server management for you.

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Vantage makes managing AWS easier by Frederic Lardinois
Vantage, a new service that makes managing AWS resources and their associated spend easier, is coming out of stealth today.

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Serverless ETL: Adfolks’ Developer Story by Hassan Rahamathullah
The arrival of cloud, SaaS, and big data has led to an explosion in the number of new data sources and streams. To top it, there has been a wider variety of data sources, a greater volume of data, and the need to transfer data at a quicker pace between systems globally.

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AWS Lambda Error Handling by Taavi Rehemägi
In this article, we'll be discussing everything you need to know about the basics of AWS Lambda error handling and some popular methods using StepFunctions and X-Ray. Regardless if you're an AWS Lambda expert or if you're a new Lambda user, there's always something new to learn.

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Building a SaaS Product
Last year, I started this new blogging project Fullstack Frontend. The idea came from my work with serverless technology over the years. I worked as a frontend and mobile developer, and when I wanted to do backend work, it seemed like a different world to me. With Node.

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 Debug AWS Lambda: A Detailed Overview by Lou — Cloud Engineer
Ah, so you’ve reached that point: you’ve been through the euphoria and the buzz of setting up a Lambda function, and the eureka moment when everything is running… but then everything comes crashing down when you realise how painful debugging AWS Lambda is! I know, because I’ve been there too

Amazon DynamoDB Deep Dive. Chapter 3: Consistency, DynamoDB streams, TTL, Global tables, DAX by Karen Tovmasyan
AWS DEEP DIVE SERIESAmazon DynamoDB Deep Dive.

Serverless Proxy with AWS API Gateway and AWS Lambda by Guillaume Lannebere
It sometimes difficult to communicate between public and private subnet in AWS. We will see how we can easily do that with the help of API Gateway and AWS Lambda.

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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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