This issue was published on August 17, 2021
In this issue, Cisco acquires Epsagon, open-source challenges SaaS, and serverless powers taco Tuesdays. Read the full issue...
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Serverless Log aggregation and Error Monitoring Pipeline for AWS Lambda by PÄąnar Kaymaz
Logging is an essential part of any development process. It enables us to debug and hence improve our software. Here at e-bot7, our infrastructure is on the cloud, namely AWS, and logs from our Lambda functions go to CloudWatch.
Top 5 Serverless AWS Services founders & Indie Hackers should know by Cloud Architect
The goal of this article is to introduce you to the top 5 serverless AWS services which I think every tech-founder or Indie Hacker should know. This is not a deep dive on these services and I want to explain them in a high level fashion and tell you why they are worth using and learning.
We Migrated From AWS Lambda to ECS, but Hope to Eventually Migrate Back by Geoff Cox
Authorâs note: The views expressed in this post are my own and not necessarily those of my employer. This is a story about how we migrated from Lambda to ECS because of a 2% error rate and limited concurrency controls.
Amazon EventBridge: API Destinations Demystified-Part I by Sheen Brisals
Amazon EventBridge is becoming one of the widely used serverless services of AWS. Along with the expanding set of features, its industry adoption is also growing fast. Amazon EventBridge is a serverless event bus that makes it easier to connect applications with data from a variety of sources.
System DesignâââChoosing between AWS Lambda and AWS Fargate by Kanika Modi
Back with the System Design Choices series, in this blog post, I explore AWS Lambda vs AWS Fargate, showing the benefits and drawbacks of each system and which one to select based on your system design requirements.
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 the Building SaaS on AWS show by location
I'm excited to introduce you to Building SaaS on AWS, our new Twitch show premiering August 11 with me as host. I'll be joined by technical experts to dive deep on technical content around building SaaS on AWS.
We cut our AWS bill by 65% after moving to Lambda by Merlin Carter
We were helping a new company in our portfolio and their AWS bill was too high for the size of their business (so technically it wasnât our bill). We helped this company to reduce their monthly AWS bill from around $2,200 (before tax) to around $773 per month.
Epsagon stopped lucrative funding round in favor of $500 million Cisco acquisition by Golan Hazani
In what was one of the most impressive M&As involving an Israeli company in recent years, Cisco announced on Friday that it was officially acquiring Epsagon.
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