Top Links from Issue #131

This issue was published on March 2, 2021

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Most Popular Links

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Google Kubernetes Engine goes serverless with new Autopilot Mode by Mike Wheatley
Google LLC said today that it’s bringing some more automation to its popular Google Kubernetes Engine service to relieve some of the headaches around infrastructure management and let users focus more on their workloads.

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A simple web-service by DynamoDB, Lambda, CloudFront and S3 by Yuta Fujii
Several months ago, I made a simple web service which is a kind of “Drawing an Oracle” function. In this article, I will show you how it is like and how it is made.

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LocalStack’s guide to run AWS serverless environment locally  : Discover the power of Lambda +… by Theodore Bourgeon
Because local testing is a must have for every developers, Localstack provides an AWS-like environment without breaking the bank.

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Reduce DynamoDB Costs: Avoid Reverse Indexes by Peter Njihia
When designing a NoSQL database model, there’s a few things that you need to pay attention to make sure that your design will be able to fully fulfill your product requirements.

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Serving millions of users on a budget by Ratnesh Neema
We service millions of users every month, and a significant portion of our native app experiences are driven through an extremely cost-efficient setup over Google’s managed cloud solutions: Firebase Functions, Firestore, Hosting, and Memorystore.

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 Service Limits To Keep In Mind While Developing A Serverless Application by Vishnu Prasad
Serverless is great, it helps companies to focus on product and application development without worrying much about the infrastructure and scaling. But there are some soft and hard limits for every AWS service which we need to keep in mind when we are developing a serverless application.

Serverless UI
Serverless UI Serverless UI is a free, open source command-line utility for quickly building and deploying serverless applications on AWS Bring your own UI It doesn't matter if it's React, Vue, Svelte or JQuery. If it compiles down to static files, then it is supported.

How to use source maps in AWS Lambda with Node.js by Slobodan Stojanović
If you ever opened your CloudWatch logs and saw that the error happened in the /var/task/index.js:1:2345, this post is for you. It’ll teach you how to transform this meaningless stack trace into something that matches your source code and you understand.

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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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