Top Links from Issue #133

This issue was published on March 16, 2021

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Five Book Recommendations For Serverless Developers
So here's the thing: you are an experienced developer thrilled by the opportunities of serverless architectures. You read books, watch any possible video courses but when it comes to starts building a real serverless solution you feel completely naked; like if you are missing something.

Webhooks with Serverless Function by Jérôme Pott
In this blog post, I'm going to show you how I set up a serverless function on Cloudflare Workers that reposts messages originally published on Habitica's chat to a Discord channel Introduction Habitica is a great platform for building good habits and boosting productivity.

AWS Cognito & Amplify Auth - Bad, Bugged, Baffling by Borislav Hadzhiev
I'm going to express my dissatisfaction with AWS Cognito and Amplify Auth. If you intend to use these services in the future, or you're already using them, you can probably get something out of reading the article, potentially save yourself some hair pulling.

Webiny v5 - The BIG update
Going through my calendar, in the last 8 months, I had 179 calls with potential clients and users of Webiny. Some were small web agencies, others were Fortune 500 businesses. Through those calls, I've noted down over 1000 lines of feedback items.

Ten Serverless Frameworks to watch in 2021 by Serverless
In this article, I’ll be highlighting the top Ten Serverless Frameworks to watch out for in 2021. Serverless computing is a fast-growing cloud technology that a lot of developers are beginning to exploit because of the flexibility and other interesting functions it offers.

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.

Serverless Full-Text Search with AWS Lambda and EFS by Arseny Yankovski
For a long time, I was looking for a serverless full-text search solution. Of course, there are managed solutions for this, like Elastic Cloud or Amazon Elasticsearch Service. But all these solutions have a fixed cost and do not scale automatically.

Using Step Functions to Eliminate Your NAT Gateway by Jason Wadsworth
I love serverless, for a lot of reasons. One huge benefit is the cost; if you’re not using it you aren’t paying for it. So, it bothers me whenever I find a need to have some bit of infrastructure that I have to pay for all the time.

Turning the Cloud Inside Out by Nader Dabit
GraphQL is an open-source data query and manipulation language for APIs, and a runtime for fulfilling queries with existing data.

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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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