Top Links from Issue #132

This issue was published on March 9, 2021

You have reached your API Destination...

In this issue, EventBridge expands its reach, we discover a plethora of new serverless tools, and we share one of the best arguments for serverless we've ever heard. Read the full issue...

Most Popular Links

Below are the most popular links from Issue #132 as chosen by our Off-by-none email subscribers. Sign up for the newsletter and help choose the most popular links each week!

Integrating using the new API Destinations of Amazon EventBridge by Samuel Vandecasteele
Amazon EventBridge is the central event bus in your AWS-based environment. A comprehensive integration messaging service that includes error handling, filtering, content-based routing, replay functionality, event schemas, and OTB SaaS integration capabilities.

The case for and against Amazon Cognito
In light of recent news of Okta’s pending acquisition of Auth0 there’s been renewed discussion about where Amazon Cognito fits into the picture. It’s a question my clients often ask me, so here are my two cents.

Tom McLaughlin by Tom McLaughlin
A question I like to ask people about serverless is, “Is serverless cheaper or more expensive than containers or VMs on AWS?” Your answer is a tell about experience. I thought this might be a good post on the topics that go into an answer. It was not. https://t.co/7kRedC

AWS’s faulty UX cost our business $7k and they refused to do anything about it by Michael Morgenstern
tl;dr: be very careful when using AWS. Their UX can be highly inaccurate and it might cost you money. If it does, don’t expect any support or sympathy from them.

How I built a Simple Sprint Dashboard with AWS Amplify by Pubudu Jayawardana
This is how I built a simple sprint dashboard using VueJS and used Amplify for backend, frontend, CI/CD, and for custom domain set up as well. In this post, I would like to share my experience using Amplify and some key lessons learned ;)

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.

Keeping your serverless architecture secure
Serverless architecture empowers organizations to build and deploy software at scale without in-house servers. The prevalence of Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) models like microservices is a testament to the popularity of serverless architectures.

Open-Source Monitoring Tools by Ran Ribenzaft
Before diving into a deeper comparison between these solutions, here below, we give a brief summary of each. Prometheus is a monitoring system focused on collecting metrics, evaluating rule expressions, displaying the collected info, and triggering alerts.

Active/Active Multi-Region Systems on Steroids With Serverless by Sarjeel Yusuf
As the world migrates to the concept of DevOps the primary goal becomes clear. How can we increase velocity while maintaining our system’s stability? With the motive of going faster, we also risk increased chances of failure.

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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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