Top Links from Issue #130

This issue was published on February 23, 2021

Is anyone not building a new cloud native platform? 🌩

In this issue, I finally share my big announcement, Microsoft is looking quite Dapr, and we learn how to make CI/CD work with serverless. Read the full issue...

Most Popular Links

Below are the most popular links from Issue #130 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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Microsoft’s Dapr open-source project to help developers build cloud-native apps hits 1.0 by Frederic Lardinois
Dapr, the Microsoft-incubated open-source project that aims to make it easier for developers to build event-driven, distributed cloud-native applications, hit its 1.0 milestone today, signifying the project’s readiness for production use cases.

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Next.js + serverless personal webpage in a couple of hours — Bootstrapping the app with Next.js by Jeremy Chan
Modern JavaScript development is notorious for being difficult in the initial setup, with the build pipeline being a random ensemble of transpilers, pre-processors and post-processors.

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New Year, New Job, Same Serverless Mission by Jeremy Daly.
Did you like this post? 👍  Do you want more? 🙌  Follow me on Twitter or check out some of the projects I’m working on.

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Bridge Integrity — Integration Testing Strategy for EventBridge Based Serverless Architectures by Sarah Hamilton
We’ve written before about the significance of Amazon EventBridge and its use in modern Serverless Architectures. Event-Driven architectures, using EventBridge, allow us to avoid the pitfall of the “distributed monolith” and create scalable, loosely coupled, systems.

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Making CI/CD work with serverless by Efi Merdler-Kravitz
“Serverless computing is a cloud-computing execution model in which the cloud provider runs the server, and dynamically manages the allocation of machine resources. Pricing is based on the actual amount of resources consumed by an 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.

AWS Serverless Architecture for Dummies by Omar Bheda
In this short article we’ll cover the basics surrounding AWS architecture. I decided to create this overview after performing a penetration test on a serverless web application and hope it proves useful as a quick crash course to AWS serverless architecture.

How to build complex Well-Architected Serverless infrastructures by Taavi Rehemägi
In this article, we’ll be rewinding back to the very beginning of the AWS Well-Architected Framework to understand how and why it came to be, and why is it of utmost importance, but very often underrated, for serverless developers to learn, understand and apply this framework of best-practices.

Serverless Kubernetes by Kyle Campbell
Last year we announced SlackOps which enabled development teams to bring the power of the CLI directly to where communication & collaboration happen; Slack.

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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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