Top Links from Issue #175

MicroVM Virtualization Solution Firecracker Reaches 1.0 by Sergio De Simone
Originally developed at AWS to power AWS Lambda, Firecracker, which enables creating and managing secure microVMs for serverless computing, recently reached version 1.0.

Introducing "The Serverless Mindset" by Marco Troisi
February 1st, 2022. Today, I am excited to announce the launch of “The Serverless Mindset”, a newsletter dedicated to leaders and forward-thinking software engineers using serverless in their projects and teams. Every week, you will receive an easy-to-digest pro-tip or insight.

CDK Lessons Learned by Matthew Wilson
The AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) allows you to define your AWS resources using the programming languages you know and love. This concept piqued the interest of many of us here at Instil; when someone offers us the ability to use Typescript instead of YAML we’re sold!

Four Ways to Improve Your AWS Lambda by Salvatore Cozzubo
Hello, today I want to talk about how you can boost the performance of your Lambda by polishing it. Let's delve into four ways to improve the init phase of your Lambda function, balance the cost and performance, trace your code with X-Ray and ultimately get to a faster and scalable function.

AWS Lambda Cookbook — Elevate your handler’s code — Part 1 by Ran Isenberg
What makes an AWS Lambda handler resilient, traceable and easy to maintain? How do you write such a code? In this blog series I’ll attempt to answer these questions by sharing my knowledge and AWS Lambda best practices so you don’t make the mistakes I once did.