Top Links from Issue #168

This issue was published on December 14, 2021

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Most Popular Links

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The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: Reflections on AWS Step Functions One Year in Production Later by Mario Bittencourt
For over one year now, the SSENSE Tech Team has been employing AWS Step Functions as part of our software development strategy. For the most part this has rolled out without any issue.

AWS AppSync: GraphQL an Alternative to REST 🌱 by Robert Bulmer
AppSync is a fully managed GraphQL service offered by Amazon Web Services and can be used to build scalable enterprise APIs. A typical AppSync solution consists of small resolvers that can be combined to access various data sources such as databases, HTTP APIs or AWS Lambda.

Fast Serverless Authentication with Next.js and PropelAuth by PropelAuth
Next.js is a React framework that provides a lot of useful features out of the box. One of these powerful features is API routes, which allows you to make an API/backend entirely within your Next.js application.

AWS re:Invent 2021: The biggest announcements by Eric Pulsifer
As AWS re:Invent 2021 comes to a close, cloud engineers have a plethora of new tools in their cloud toolboxes. Missed the event or looking for the TL;DR on what AWS announced? Here are our team’s picks of the biggest announcements that came out of re:Invent 2021.

Deploying aliased AWS Lambda functions by Kevin Dico
Using AWS Lambda, AWS API Gateway, and Postman. Here’s how AWS defines a Lambda alias.

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.

AWS outage: Your response to AWS going down shouldn't be multicloud by Matt Asay
Commentary: It's convenient to assume multicloud will solve your application resilience woes. Convenient, but wrong. Here's why. You work in enterprise IT, so you're not really prone to join Twitter's "#hugops" crowd when a cloud service goes down.

Deep dive into Lambda event-filters for DyanmoDB
Amazon Lambda Functions with the event-filtering for DynamoDB Streams enables ease of integration and application development. There are a couple of good blog posts with talks about how to setup triggers with filter patterns to your Lambda fns.

Amazon Wants Everybody on Its Cloud by B. Cameron Gain
Prisma Cloud from Palo Alto Networks is sponsoring our coverage of AWS re:Invent 2021.

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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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