Top Links from Issue #159

This issue was published on October 12, 2021

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Most Popular Links

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The Five Dysfunctions of Serverless Development
Function as a Service gives magnificent power for shipping software faster without operational overhead. AWS Lambda is a service which used in e-commerce, healthcare, fin-tech, and other industries. Corporations and startups are jumping into the train of the Serverless movement.

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James Beswick by James Beswick
📢New Serverless Patterns available! *⃣ API Gateway websocket API to SQS (https://t.co/HaALy6KkVs) @StevenCWarwick *⃣ DynamoDB to Kinesis Data Streams (https://t.co/MJ3F3le2QV) by @rohanmehta_dev *⃣ IoT event to Lambda (https://t.co/3s6Mf73jkO) by Valdeci Gomes #s

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Karol Wójcik by Karol Wójcik
Yesterday at @Retailic, we transitioned our REST API running: Ring, Next.jdbc, Pathom3 from regular servers to AWS Lambda on ARM64 Graviton 2 processor by adding a 110LOC of code to adapt the Ring request/response model to AWS Lambda model. 🧵 #serverless #AWS #Oracle #Cloj

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Python error handling in AWS Lambda by Taavi Rehemägi
Python, used in around 53% of all Lambda functions, is the most popular language for doing Serverless. In this article, you’ll get an overview of the need-to-knows for error handling Python in AWS Lambda.

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.

My pain with Serverless and AWS Lambda by John Nguyen
Just recently, I got to work with Serverless on AWS Lambda. It’s a great technology, and I love the idea not to manage and provision underlying servers. I do much programming in Python, and luckily AWS Lambda comes with a Python Runtime.

NoSQL Workbench for Amazon DynamoDB now enables you to import and automatically populate sample data to help build and visualize your data models
NoSQL Workbench for DynamoDB, a client-side tool that helps you design, visualize, and query nonrelational data models by using a point-and-click interface, now helps you import and automatically populate sample data to help build and visualize your data models.

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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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