Top Links from Issue #183

This issue was published on April 5, 2022

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Most Popular Links

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10 CloudWatch Logs Insights examples for serverless applications
CloudWatch Logs Insights is a CloudWatch feature that allows you to interactively search and analyze your log data in Amazon CloudWatch Logs.

How to Build Lightning Fast APIs with AWS Step Functions
When I first started out with serverless a few years ago, Step Functions were a bit of a mystery. I knew that they were designed for orchestrating workflows but their scope escaped me.

After 5 years, I'm out of the serverless compute cult
I have been using serverless computing and storage for nearly five years and I'm finally tired of it. I do feel like it has become a cult. In a cult, brainwashing is done so gradually, people have no idea it is going on.

Importance of Security in Serverless Technologies by TechMagic
Serverless architecture: serverless security market, threats, best practices and enhancements, and biggest trends in 2022. Serverless architecture allows a company to focus on innovative and creative, leaving the tedious routine work to remote overseas experts.

Introducing the Serverless Cloud Full Stack Experience by Jeremy Daly
Developers have been enjoying the massive productivity boost and ease of use that Serverless Cloud provides when building backend applications. Now we’ve taken Serverless Cloud to a whole new level.

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.

The Challenge of Scaling WebSockets by Matthew O
Matthew O’Riordan Matthew O’Riordan is the CEO and technical co-founder of Ably, the platform that powers synchronized digital experiences in real time. Matthew has been a software engineer for over 20 years, many of those as a CTO.

An Introduction To AWS CloudFront Functions
This article was originally written by Ayooluwa Isaiah on the Honeybadger Developer Blog.

AWS Step Functions: 5 specific ways to level up your workflows by Rawad Haber
A couple of years back was the first time I touched Step Functions and state machines and honestly, the first time I wrote a state machine I got the feeling it wasn’t very intuitive and felt a bit clunky. The proprietary language (ASL, Amazon states language) didn’t come naturally to me.

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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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