Top Links from Issue #190
This issue was published on May 31, 2022
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Quick Optimizations You Should Make to Your Serverless Applications
Last week I ran a series of load tests on an app my team and I have been working on for a couple years. We were all excited to see how our completely serverless application would scale under a load 3-4 times what we expected at peak times. We kicked off the first run at a low scale.
AWS AppSync introduces new simplified console experience to deploy generic real-time Pub/Sub APIs
AWS AppSync is a fully managed service that enables developers to build digital experiences based on real-time data. With AppSync, you can easily configure data sources to push and publish real-time data updates to subscribed clients.
StepviewāāāAll your AWS Stepfunctions at a glance! by Medium
Stepfunctions is a serverless workflow orchestrator. Itās a popular tool for automating the execution of data and ML pipelines on AWS. Do you have some production workloads running via AWS Stepfunctions?
Authenticate users with Vue 3, Serverless & AWS Cognito by Emil Hein
Currently one of my favorite stacks are Vue 3 in the frontend and a serverless backend written in NodeJS and using the Serverless framework. This kind of stack is pretty simple to manage and it gives you enough flexibility to handle a wide variety of use cases.
How to use EventBridge as a Cross-Account Event Backbone
Two of the emerging best practices in modern AWS applications are: Use a separate AWS account per application Decouple communication between systems using events instead of point-to-point, synchronous communication.
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.
5 Common Amazon Kinesis Issues
Amazon Kinesis is the real-time stream processing service of AWS. Whether you got video, audio, or IoT streaming data to handle, Kinesis is the way to go. Kinesis is a serverless managed service that integrates nicely with other services like Lambda or S3.
Local testing of CDK-defined Step Functions state machine by JƩrƓme Van Der Linden
This blog post describes the different pieces of the puzzle needed to unit test a Step Functions state machine defined with CDK code.
What is Edge Compute? Itās kind of like knitting dog hats
Iāve been trying to come up with a good explanation of what exactly āedge computeā is and for reasons I donāt need to justify to you, Iāve landed on the analogy: itās like selling knitted hats for dogs. Why knitted dog hats? Because theyāre hilarious!
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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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