Top Links from Issue #191

This issue was published on June 7, 2022

The State(fullness) of Serverless 💾

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Most Popular Links

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What’s the fuss about DynamoDB Single Table Design by Nwachukwu Chibuike
As someone who comes from a SQL background, believe me when I say, working with a NoSQL Database was at the very least of my desires. In this article, I give my take on the Why, How, and Benefits of using a Single Table Design in DynamoDB.

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Tips for exposing SPAs and APIs with Cloudfront + S3 + API Gateway
This is a common pattern, but I would like to share some of the practices that I have arrived at. Until now, when publishing SPA applications such as Vue or Angular with Cloudfront + S3 S3 returns 403 or 404 by making a request to a path that does not exist.

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How to hit AWS Step Functions limitations… by Raphael Bottino
This is part two of a two part series of my learnings as a first-time user of AWS Step Functions. You can find the part one here. I was able to implement a better architecture for my application and make it work. Until it didn't with buckets that had enough objects because I wrote a bad recursion.

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Understand resiliency patterns and trade-offs to architect efficiently in the cloud by Haresh Nandwani
Architecting workloads to achieve your resiliency targets can be a balancing act. Firms designing for resilience on cloud often need to evaluate multiple factors before they can decide the most optimal architecture for their workloads.

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When Serverless really shines (and when to avoid it) by Sylvain Kerkour
For a few years, serverless has been pushed hard by the different cloud providers as a magical solution for all our problems. Before we get too far, let's clarify things. Here we are talking about serverless functions: AWS lambda or Scaleway Serverless Functions, where you upload a simple .

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.

7 Reasons Why Serverless Encourages Useful Engineering Practices by Anna Geller
It’s hard to determine what can be considered a “good” or “bad” engineering practice. We often hear about best practices, but everything really boils down to a specific use case. Therefore, I deliberately chose the word “useful” rather than “good” in the title.

Serverless B2B Authentication by Lee James Gilmore
🚘 Lee James Luxury Cars. This company manufactures cars, and as part of that process needs to acquire tires from a 3rd party supplier.

If you use Amplify and Git branches, you are going to have a bad time
AWS Amplify is... A combination of tools that aim to assist with development, deployment, and hosting of your serverless application. AWS Amplify is three things: It's a cloud service that includes consoles, monitoring tools, build and deploy configurations, and so on.

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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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