Top Links from Issue #178

This issue was published on March 1, 2022

TypeScript + Serverless = 🚀

In this issue, TypeScript gets some love from the serverless community, we learn how to prototype faster, and we ask if serverless is just a stopover for EDA. Read the full issue...

Most Popular Links

Below are the most popular links from Issue #178 as chosen by our Off-by-none email subscribers. Sign up for the newsletter and help choose the most popular links each week!

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Serverless Architectures on AWS, Second Edition
Serverless Architectures on AWS, Second Edition teaches you how to design, secure, and manage serverless backend APIs for web and mobile applications on the AWS platform.

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How We Sped Up Our TypeScript Serverless Builds Ten Times (70 Lambdas Under 1 Minute) by Arseny Yankovski
TL;DR: Previously, we used serverless-webpack to bundle our TypeScript lambdas, and it took around 10 minutes to package our 70 lambdas service. We switched to serverless-esbuild, which sped up our builds almost ten times, packaging the 70 lambdas service in under a minute.

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Functionless λ<
Functionless is a TypeScript plugin that transforms TypeScript code into Service-to-Service (aka. "functionless") integrations, such as AWS AppSync Resolvers and Velocity Templates, or (coming soon) Amazon States Language for AWS Step Functions.

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Announcing TypeScript native support in the AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) CLI (using esbuild) (public preview)
The AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) CLI announces a public preview of TypeScript native support. The SAM CLI is a developer tool that is designed to initialize and configure serverless applications, build and test locally and on the AWS cloud, and deploy using AWS CloudFormation.

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The Best Integration Testing Library for Serverless Projects Now Supports Typescript!
Local development is an anti-pattern in the serverless world. If you're not convinced yet, have a look at Gareth McCumskey's talk given at Serverless Days Paris. 🎤

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.

AWS launches customer carbon footprint tool
Starting today customers can calculate the environmental impact of their AWS workloads with the new customer carbon footprint tool.

AWS DynamoDB Deep Dive by Aly Ragab
AWS makes DynamoDB in Fault-Tolerant state, which means that it replicates DynamoDB tables across all AZs in the given Region, So how we can read data from distributed tables ?.

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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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