Top Links from Issue #174
This issue was published on February 1, 2022
Serverless Framework v3! 🙌
In this issue, Serverless Framework v3 goes live, Kinesis points the Data Firehose at Honeycomb, and we enter the Golden Age of full-stack JavaScript. Read the full issue...
Most Popular Links
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Serverless Framework V3 Is Live! by Matthieu Napoli
We are excited to announce the release of Serverless Framework v3. This new major version brings a cleaner and redesigned CLI experience as well as a brand new feature: stage parameters.
As good as new: Serverless Framework 3.0 emerges thoroughly cleansed, fitted with stage parameters by Julia Schmidt
While the Serverless Framework project provides a reliable stream of small regular updates, new features have become somewhat of a rarity for the tool looking to help devs work with serverless architectures. Just out version 3.
Answering the biggest AWS Lambda questions
AWS Lambda offers you a variety of benefits like real-time data processing, custom back-end service and a lot more. Wish you knew the ins-and-outs of this system so you could decide if it's the right fit for you?
DynamoDB — Everything You Need To Know About Single Table Design by Sarit Pinhas
DynamoDB is a serverless database with automatic scaling and maintenance by AWS. It is a fully-managed NoSQL key-value database. Why DynamoDB? Let’s take a look at the advantages.
Dude where's my coldstart? by OpenFaaS Ltd
Alex takes a look at the architecture of OpenFaaS and why you can say goodbye to coldstarts.
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.
Amazon Dynamo DB vs Azure Cosmos DB
Amazon DynamoDB and Azure CosmosDB both are widely used NoSQL databases with high scalability and availability. Here in this article, we will try to find out the differences between both of the databases based on different parameters.
Serverless: Focusing on Actors and their Activities by John Gilbert
Driving down lead time, shortening the feedback loop, moving fast and iterating, and evolving our systems as we learn, is the holy grail of software development. Independently deployable microservices are supposed to help us achieve this.
Thoughtworks Misses the Mark by Charles Chen
My friend Arash Rohani recently forwarded an article published by a team from Thoughtworks from their XConf Tech Talk Series: Serverless vs. Kubernetes when deploying microservices.
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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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