Top Links from Issue #173

This issue was published on January 25, 2022

Containers versus Serverless, part deux. ✌️

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Most Popular Links

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AWS General Design Principles in Serverless Applications by Andrew JR
AWS is considered to be the pioneer in performing things in a most distinctive way. This is evident through the ways in which they follow their leadership principles assisting the organizations to create leading businesses.

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Containers vs. Serverless from a DevOps standpoint
Two buzzwords walk into a bar... No? Yeah, let's not go there. If you feel like this, you're in the right place. Both containers and serverless have been the cool new kid on the block for the last few years, and the popularity simply isn't dying down. Before I continue, let me clarify.

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AWS S3 Select and Node.Js by Salvatore Cozzubo
Today I will talk about the S3 Select, a feature that can help you directly filter a CSV. An interesting use case is when you have a big CSV (~100mb) but only need a few rows of it, filtered by date or by a category, and you would also like to have the the result in JSON.

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We Tested the Best Serverless Monitoring Solutions so You Don’t Have To by Charles Géry
Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. — John F. Woods The ultimate goal of monitoring is to create quality software for your users.

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Architect a easy way to jump into the serverless world
If you are looking at the state of software development you can see that serverless is starting to go mainstream. As complexity grows in software and more integration are introduced to produce a more dynamic and effective application you are bound to need more tooling.

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.

Serverless Caching Strategies — Part 3 (Lambda Runtime) 🚀 by Lee James Gilmore
This is Part 3 of a number of articles covering serverless caching strategies on AWS, and why you should use them. The Github repo can be found here https://github.com/leegilmorecode/serverless-caching. This part is going to cover caching at the Lambda runtime environment.

Cryptocurrency Is a Giant Ponzi Scheme by Sohale Andrus Mortazavi
Cryptocurrency is not merely a bad investment or speculative bubble. It’s worse than that: it’s a full-on fraud. Cryptocurrency is a scam.

Monitoring Serverless Applications by Diego A. Rojas
Since AWS released Serverless back in 2015, every cloud provider started creating their implementation of FaaS — Function as a Service.

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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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