Top Links from Issue #180

This issue was published on March 15, 2022

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Most Popular Links

Below are the most popular links from Issue #180 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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How to Implement Circuit Breaker Patterns by Ran Ribenzaft
Microservices architecture has a lot of moving components, and it is distributed in nature. Distributed applications communicate over networks, which are inherently unreliable. Failures are inevitable when your services communicate with external components like databases, APIs, and remote services.

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Amazon EventBridge: Event Payload Standards by David Boyne
Amazon EventBridge is a great service that provides a Serverless event bus that allows us to write event driven architectures within AWS. With EventBridge we can consume events from AWS, SaaS providers and even create our own custom events.

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The Importance of Proper Serverless API Design
I was troubleshooting a production issue last week. The issue stated that some shared files weren't showing up in our application even though they had been shared multiple times. Seems like a simple enough bug to triage.

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AWS Lambda Event Sources and Destination Trigger Services by Mehmet Özkaya
In this article, we are going to learn about AWS Lambda Event Sources and Destination Trigger Services when developing Serverless E-Commerce application. At the end of the article we will be following the Reference Architecture above which is a Real-world Serverless E-commerce application.

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[Infographic] HTTP API Gateway from a serverless perspective
Since our latest update, Dashbird also gives you insights into HTTP API Gateway. Let’s look at the differences between REST vs. HTTP; HTTP API Gateway pricing, integrations and monitoring.

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.

8 Serverless Terms Developers Must Know
I’ve been a mobile developer for most of my professional career. The transition from Java to Android wasn’t a big deal. However, most of the mobile apps today have shifted their backend to serverless. This makes mobile apps more light-weight and improves their maintainability.

Let’s Architect! Tools for Cloud Architects by luca mezzalira
This International Women’s Day, we’re featuring more than a week’s worth of posts that highlight female builders and leaders.

Xata Raises $30M to Launch a Serverless Database With the Usability of a Spreadsheet
Today, we’re excited to announce that we’ve successfully raised a Series A investment of $30M, co-lead by Redpoint and Index Ventures.

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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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