Top Links from Issue #150

James Beswick by James Beswick
📢 New Serverless Patterns available at https://t.co/Ne3Lb17adD! * API GW to Step Functions to DynamoDB from @t1agoB * New AppSync patterns from @bricepelle and @AmiPatel73 * API GW to Fargate from @bbideep * RabbitMQ to AWS Lambda from @talianas #aws #serverl

What I learned from Software Engineering at Google by Swizec Teller
When I first picked up Software Engineering at Google I thought it was another one of those FAANG books full of lessons that make no sense at human scale. I was surprised, the lessons apply to teams as small as 5. This is a "good shit stays" recap.

Node.js and zero servers by Tal Bereznitskey
At Torii, we’ve been running Node.js + Serverless in production for the past 4 years. Here’s a summary of why we decided on this stack for our startup and what we’ve learned. Deciding on the technology stack when founding a new startup is a bit of an art.

Refactored a Lambda Heap to use Layers by location
Till recently, in fact, till last week, was not too worried about writing all code into single code folder, and mapping multiple AWS::Serverless::Function into individual named handlers.

Send and Receive Emails with Amazon Simple Email Service (SES), Without an Actual Mailbox by Roy Ben Yosef
I wanted to share how you can send and receive emails using Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) — without having an actual mailbox. You might be asking “why would I want to do that?” and one possible answer would be interacting with a user using email, for example, in some serverless workflow.