Top Links from Issue #188
This issue was published on May 17, 2022
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Most Popular Links
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3 Pitfalls of AWS Step Functions and How You Can Avoid Them by Allen Helton
Last week I got a call asking for help with a nasty bug in production. The bug dealt with processing data at a scale the dev team hadnāt anticipated.
With new serverless database, Cloudflare gets serious about infrastructure services by Ron Miller
When AWS launched its storage offering in 2006, it began a march to offer compute, storage and database services in the cloud. Google, Microsoft, Alibaba and IBM among others would follow.
How Not to Test with DynamoDB by Seth Orell
Serverless is amazing. Companies offer you databases, queues, buses, and compute services that scale up and down without you having to lift a finger. These fully-managed services let you compose resilient, complex, event-driven architectures on demand.
Security reference architecture for a serverless application by Anunay Bhatt
Serverless computing can help organizations reduce the operational overhead while delivering highly scalable and reliable services to the customers in a cost effective manner.
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.
Announcing the Cloudflare Images Sourcing Kit
Introducing Cache Reserve: massively extending Cloudflareās cache
Introducing Custom Domains for Workers
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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 āserver-fullā 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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