Top Links from Issue #126

This issue was published on January 26, 2021

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Most Popular Links

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TL;DR on the AWS Lambda Security Overview by Abhay Bhargav
AWS recently released a whitepaper on the Security Overview of Lambda. This document is meant to be an in-depth look at Lambda Security. Its definitely a worthwhile read. However, I have tried to simplify and distill some of the most important security points for general consumption

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Why Fastly Stock Jumped 7.3% Thursday Morning by Facebook
Shares of Fastly (NYSE:FSLY) jumped by as much as 7.3% on Thursday morning, goosed by a bullish analyst report.

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Why Many Engineers Don’t Understand the Real Use of Serverless by Anna Anisienia
Recently, I’ve seen a video by a really great developer and YouTuber. Its title is “Serverless Doesn’t Make Sense.” Even though I really enjoyed the video, I am not sure whether the author’s points about serverless are entirely valid, and I want to discuss them in this article.

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DynamoDB OneTable by Michael O'Brien
DynamoDB OneTable (OneTable) is an access library for DynamoDB applications that use one-table design patterns with NodeJS. OneTable makes dealing with DynamoDB and one-table design patterns dramatically easier while still providing easy access to the full DynamoDB API.

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Understanding DynamoDB Condition Expressions
If you’re working with DynamoDB, you’re likely to rely on Condition Expressions when manipulating items in your table. Condition Expressions can ensure you don’t overwrite existing users, allow bank account balances to drop below $0, or give Admin access to every user in your application.

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.

Keep your CloudWatch bill under control when running AWS Lambda at scale by Thomas Laue
In this post, I am showing a way how to keep the AWS CloudWatch costs caused by log messages coming from AWS Lambda under control without losing insights and debug information in case of errors. A logger with an included cache mechanism is presented.

Delivering BBC Online using Serverless by Johnathan Ishmael
Previously we wrote about how we’ve moved BBC Online to the cloud. This post looks more closely at why Web Core, our new web technology platform is built using serverless cloud functions.

Optimising serverless for BBC Online by Johnathan Ishmael
Previously I talked about why Web Core, our new web technology platform is built using serverless cloud functions. In this post we’ll discuss our experience of integrating them with our architecture and how we’ve optimised them for our use case.

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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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