Top Links from Issue #137

This issue was published on April 13, 2021

The challenges of Lambda in production ⚙️

In this issue, we learn about the challenges of Lambda in production, talk about serverless and machine learning, and simulate our data flows with Step Functions. Read the full issue...

Most Popular Links

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Why I wouldn’t choose S3 bucket notifications again by Christian Bandowski
We are building a data hub within AWS where we obviously use several S3 buckets. As the whole data hub is built upon serverless technologies we also use several Lambdas and sometimes they get triggered when new files arrive in one of our S3 buckets.

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The challenges of AWS Lambda in production

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End to End Serverless ETL orchestration in AWS by Rittika Jindal
Building your first end to end data orchestration and data pipeline could be overwhelming. There are numerous tech stacks and open source tools one can use, so it could be hard to decide, learn and build one fully functional production pipeline.

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How to successfully create a push queue using SQS + lambda by juanjolainez
Due to the nature of our company, in CreditorWatch, we have to deal with a vast number of jobs and deferred tasks (from 300k to 3 million per day).

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Challenge of Serverless: Database Connections by Noah Fischer
Designing a database for serverless, the biggest challenge in our mind was to build an infrastructure which supports per request pricing in a profitable way. We believe Upstash has achieved this. After we launched the product, we saw that there was another major challenge: Database connections!

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.

Which AWS Certification Should You Take First? by Lou — Cloud Engineer
When it comes to looking for jobs or just improving your career in the cloud industry, you only need 2-3 seconds (roughly 😉) on the internet before it’ll be recommended to you to get certified.

Waylay Announces Waylay IO, The First Low-code Developer-friendly Data Automation and Orchestration Platform
Waylay, a leading enterprise automation software company at the forefront of digital transformation has today announced Waylay IO, its new product offering for developers. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.

Serverless API Service by Alejandro Cora González

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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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