Top Links from Issue #141
This issue was published on May 11, 2021
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Most Popular Links
Below are the most popular links from Issue #141 as chosen by our Off-by-none email subscribers. Sign up for the newsletter and help choose the most popular links each week!
Not everything is as it seems with AWS Fargate by Brian Foody
The technology development team at Austal recently kicked off a program of work on computational fluid dynamic simulations for optimising vessel designs. As the cloud lead I was approached to design an API that could host the simulations for a third party to integrate with.
3 Major Ways To Improve AWS Lambda Performance by Yan Cui
This piece was originally three different blogs but is now one blog! In this piece, we lay out three significant ways you can improve your AWS Lambda performance. So much has been written about Lambda cold starts.
Building a Massively Scalable Serverless Chat Application with AWS AppSync by Sarah Hamilton
When demand strikes, developers are tasked with building features quickly.
4 Tips for AWS Lambda Optimization in Production by Taavi RehemƤgi
By the end of this AWS Lambda optimization article, you will have a workflow of continuously monitoring and improving your Lambda functions and getting alerts on failures.
Microsoft Announces Preview Service for Building Real-Time Web Applications Called Azure Web PubSub by Steef-Jan Wiggers
Recently Microsoft announced a preview of Azure Web PubSub, a new service for building real-time web applications. Azure Web PubSub is a fully-managed service that supports native and serverless WebSockets. WebSockets allow for full-duplex communication channels over a single TCP connection.
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.
Operating Lambda: Performance optimization ā Part 3 by James Beswick
In the Operating Lambda series, I cover important topics for developers, architects, and systems administrators who are managing AWS Lambda-based applications. This three-part series discusses performance optimization for Lambda-based applications.
Serverless Framework vs SAM vs AWS CDK by May 7
When building serverless apps on AWS today there's a couple of different toolkits available that helps you develop, test and deploy your project. Serverless Framework was the king for a long time but both AWS SAM and the CDK have been increasing in popularity lately.
Building Okayar Part 1: How it Started + Back-end CRUD Serverless Lambda API in Go by Arjit Jaiswal
A couple years ago, I made it my goal to just build something. I wanted to prove to myself that any time an idea or opportunity came, Iād be able to figure it out and make something happen.
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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 āserver-fullā 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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