Top Links from Issue #176

This issue was published on February 15, 2022

A new generation of Google Cloud Functions ⚙️

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Most Popular Links

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AWS Lambda — Steer Clear Of These Pitfalls by PatchDuty Inc
Serverless architecture has become one of the most efficient ways to manage variable workloads. The approach to build and run applications without having to manage the underlying infrastructure has to be a gift from heaven for Full Stack engineers to SREs and DevOps professionals.

Why I don’t use NoSQL databases for new projects by Kashif
I’ve used several major NoSQL DBs professionally for many years; I still use them on some of my freelance projects. I like using Dynamodb and love single table design. I like the simplicity of Firestore.

AWS Lambda functions in VPC
AWS Lambda functions is one of the popular Compute service for Serverless which provides powerful executions for your business logic.

AWS RDS from a Serverless Perspective by Taavi Rehemägi
In this article, we’ll deep dive into all the basics to help you decide if AWS RDS is the right decision for your architecture and help you hit the ground running if you do end up AWS RDS. For many decades now, relational databases (RDS) have been the place to store your data.

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.

Introducing Serverless Cloud Events by Jeremy Daly
We’re excited to announce the release of Serverless Cloud Events, a new feature that lets developers easily build event-driven serverless applications. Serverless Cloud already had support for Data and Storage events, allowing developers to write code that reacts to item and object changes.

Pushing messages from Amazon SQS to DynamoDB by Subhasis Das
Amazon SQS is one of the most popular managed message queuing services. It’s used to decouple components and enable asynchronous processes in large applications.

AWS Announces the General Availability of AWS CloudFormation Hooks
AWS announces the general availability of AWS CloudFormation Hooks, a feature that allows customers to invoke custom logic to automate actions or inspect resource configurations prior to a create, update or delete CloudFormation stack operation.

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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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