Top Links from Issue #167
This issue was published on December 7, 2021
re:Invent 2021 re:Cap š
In this issue, we re:Cover from re:Invent, share a whole bunch of re:Caps, and we watch the edge computing battle heat up. Read the full issue...
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Ben Kehoe by Ben Kehoe
Itās hard to understate the damage the āCloudFormation is assembly codeā metaphor has done to the conversation abo
AWS re:Invent Announcements
AWS re:Invent is currently going on and there are so many new announcements. It is hard to have an overview of all of them so I am summarizing my top announcements of the last few days. These are mainly the announcements of Werner Vogel's keynote. Let's go!
Zack Kanter is at re:Invent by Zack Kanter is at re:Invent
I'm extremely excited to announce that MappingsĀ ā @Stedi's first broadly-applicable, developer-focused productĀ ā is now Generally Available. Mappings provides a powerful UI for defining JSON transformations, which can then be invoked via API for data mapping at scal
AWS re:Invent 2021 keynote live blog: All the latest news, announcements and more by Mike Moore
This is of course the first in-person AWS re:Invent since 2019, and thousands of attendees, customers and AWS employees have flocked to the Venetian Conference Centre in Las Vegas.
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.
Lies, damned lies, and (Cloudflare) statistics: debunking Cloudflareās recent performance tests
A couple of weeks ago Cloudflare, one of our competitors, published a blog post in which they claimed that their edge compute platform is roughly three times as fast as Compute@Edge. This nonsensical conclusion provides a great example of how statistics can be used to mislead.
AWS Lambda event filtering for Amazon DynamoDB Streams
On 26 Nov 2021, AWS released Lambda event filtering with Amazon DynamoDB as an event source. Some might flippantly say "meh, big deal." Well, if you use Lambda functions a lot and only care about a subset of the event in that DynamoDB stream, this really might be a big deal! So read on!!
Design Patterns for Serverless Systems by Tridib Bolar
Key Takeaways We can define different categories of design patterns, including OOP design patterns, organizational patterns, and so on. A number of design patterns are specifically suited to the serverless paradigm.
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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 āserver-fullā 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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