Top Links from Issue #151

This issue was published on August 3, 2021

Building serverless pipelines 🚰

In this issue, we get a content repository for heroes, Fastly introduces zero cold-starts, and AWS makes building CI/CD pipelines a lot easier. Read the full issue...


Most Popular Links

Below are the most popular links from Issue #151 as chosen by our Off-by-none email subscribers. Sign up for the newsletter and help choose the most popular links each week!

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Creating a single-table design with Amazon DynamoDB by James Beswick
Amazon DynamoDB is a highly performant NoSQL database that provides data storage for many serverless applications. Unlike traditional SQL databases, it does not use table joins and other relational database constructs.

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AWS Heroes Content Library by clear all
Looking to expand your knowledge of the cloud, up-level your AWS skills, and discover solutions to hard-to-solve problems? Find inspiration and answers from AWS Hero authored content including blogs, videos, slide presentations, podcasts, and more.

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The What, Why, and When of Mono-Lambda vs Single Function APIs by location
Almost once per week, I see a question on Twitter, StackOverflow, or Reddit about how to structure Serverless APIs. Like most things in software, the tl;dr is "it depends". If you're bored already, just skim the TL;DR and tweet at me with your objections. If not, get ready to dive in!

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Fastly Launches New Era of Highly-Secure Serverless JavaScript With Zero Cold Starts
Compute@Edge’s unique isolation sandbox technology enables a fast, secure JavaScript experience as developers continue to enter into the growing serverless computing landscape. -- Fastly, Inc.

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Yan Cui is making the AppSync Masterclass by Yan Cui is making the AppSync Masterclass
ooh, this is interesting! #serverless #aws #awslambda

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.

Introducing AWS SAM Pipelines: Automatically generate deployment pipelines for serverless applications by named profile
Today, AWS announces the public preview of AWS SAM Pipelines, a new capability of AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) CLI.

Puppeteer and Lambda Container Functions — a match made in heaven! by Kosta_Kirov
The last project I was working on required some screenshot-scraping on a schedule 24/7. One of the most popular tools for this is puppeteer, which is a high-level API to control Chrome or Chromium over the DevTools Protocol.

Announcing CDK Pipelines GA, CI/CD for CDK Apps
CDK Pipelines is a construct library for the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) that makes it easy to set up simple or complex continuous delivery pipelines with AWS CodePipeline.

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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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