Top Links from Issue #192

This issue was published on June 14, 2022

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Most Popular Links

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MongoDB vs DynamoDB Head-to-Head: Which Should You Choose? by Shawn Adams
Databases are a key architectural component of many applications and services. Traditionally, organizations have chosen relational databases like SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL and Postgres. Relational databases use tables and structured languages to store data.

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How we handle repeated tasks using Amazon EventBridge and AWS Lambda by Mike Rudge
It’s a classic starter challenge to build a simple todo app, however, modern todo apps have some more advanced functionality that can be tricky to implement correctly. One example of an extra feature is tasks that repeat.

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Insurtech company Branch just became a unicorn. Here's an exclusive look at the pitch deck that pushed them to over $1 billion valuation. by Emilia David
The home-and- auto-insurance industry has seen slow disruption as startups have struggled to figure out how to take on massive incumbents like Geico and AAA.

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DigitalOcean Functions Challenge
Join the challenge to play with DigitalOcean Functions, learn more about the power of serverless, win prizes, and have fun along the way! What are Functions? Functions are blocks of code that run on demand without the need to manage any infrastructure.

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David Boyne 🚀 by David Boyne ?
I have been preparing a talk about "Best practices with Event Design" and been diving deep over the past week.... Here are some insights and thoughts I had along the way

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.

Amazon EventBridge archive and ordered replay of events
With many serverless event-first services available, utilizing events in application backends has become very popular. Those asynchronous workflows are often more cost-efficient and resilient than their synchronous counterparts.

A serverless solution to just-in-time scheduling
TL; DR: We published a CDK construct to schedule events precisely. Documentation is available on the project's github When I worked on a serverless CMS with Guillaume, we had to find a way to schedule an event (publishing a new article) at a precise time with serverless tools.

Flipping business rules in Serverless by Kevin van Ingen
Over the course of five years, I have the positioning of business rules changing in Serverless landscapes. In the past Lambdas used to rule the landscape and contain all my business rules, increasingly I see the business logic split and scattered to peripheral services.

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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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