Top Links from Issue #172
This issue was published on January 18, 2022
Happy 10th Birthday to DynamoDB! 🎉
In this issue, DynamoDB turns 10, Eleventy 1.0 launches with a serverless plugin, and we ask if 2022 is the year of low-code. Read the full issue...
Most Popular Links
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Awesome EventBridge 🚀 by Awesome DynamoDB
Contributions welcome! How to get started with Amazon EventBridge. James Beswick talks us through a quick introduction into EventBridge.
Eleventy 1.0 - The Serverless Plugin
As Eleventy moves towards a final 1.0 release, I thought I'd try to (finally) wrap my head around one of the biggest new features, the Serverless plugin. I say finally because this new feature has been out in beta form for a while now and I've really struggled with trying to wrap my head around it.
Professional VTLeditor and debugger
Mapping Tool has everything you need to build perfect templates... Easily differentiate VTL from plain text or JSON. Purpose-built and very colorful.
[Infographic] All you need to know about AWS API Gateway and resolving the most common request… by Taavi Rehemägi
Adding an API Gateway to your application is a good way to centralize some work you usually have to do for all of your API routes, like authentication or validation. But like every software system, it comes with its own problems.
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.
Local development is not the right choice for the cloud serverless world by Igor Anic
Since the introduction of serverless computing, developers were complaining about the frustrating build experience and broken development workflow so much that they were asking if the benefits of serverless are worth it.
Reliable Auto-Incrementing Integers in DynamoDB
DynamoDB does not support auto-incrementing IDs for items. They can be a performance bottleneck at scale, and most workloads are better off with UUIDs anyway. However, there are use cases where auto-incrementing integers are required. In this Bite we will use DynamoDB Transactions, Conditions, and Atomic Counters to achieve reliable auto-incrementing IDs at any scale.
LocalStack: AWS On Your Laptop by Cem Altuner
LocalStack’s primary objective is to assist you in speeding up various procedures, simplifying testing, and saving money on development testing. For example, consider the time it takes to spin up an EC2 instance on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
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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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