Top Links from Issue #165

What 18 months using Single Table Pattern have taught me by Vinicius Ronconi
If you have been working in the software development industry for a long time, you probably learnt to work with databases using a relational database. It can be MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle or any other system. No matter the flavour, you’re certainly used to joining data between tables.

A Review on SNS, SQS, and EventBridge and when to use what by E.Y.
I’ve been using SNS/SQS at work, and recently also tried EventBridge at my hobby project. I found them all been very useful in different scenarios, and would like to share my feedback on them. Basically you are weighing high throughput vs. reliability:

Step Functions with API Gateway integration, good idea? by Jérôme Van Der Linden
I’m currently testing AWS Step Functions direct integration with Amazon API Gateway. The aim is to make an API call directly from my state machine, rather than from an intermediary Lambda function. Eventually, it can improve the performance and possibly reduce the cost too. Let’s have a look.

AWS Cognito Pricing and Features – 2021
What Is Amazon Cognito? It is a service introduced by AWS (Amazon Web Services) which allows users to add authentication to projects, it allows users to sign in with different social identity providers, and scales to millions of users and requests.

AWS State Machines — Decouple and Orchestrate Lambda Functions by Marc Khair
I recently wrote an article about AWS Lambda. My article served as a quick introduction to the service and its functionalities. In this article, we explore another great asset in your AWS serverless arsenal: Step Functions, and specifically State Machines.