Top Links from Issue #198

This issue was published on August 23, 2022

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Most Popular Links

Below are the most popular links from Issue #198 as chosen by our Off-by-none email subscribers. Sign up for the newsletter and help choose the most popular links each week!

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A multi-dimensional approach helps you proactively prepare for failures, Part 1: Application layer by Piyali Kamra
Resiliency of applications surpasses everything else in building customer trust. Because of this, it cannot be an afterthought. Instead of simply reacting to a failure, why not be proactive?

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Seven Tools to Help You Become a Better Serverless Developer by Yan Cui
Serverless technologies let us do more with less effort, time and energy. They let us focus on creating user value and let the cloud handle undifferentiated heavy-lifting like scaling and securing the underlying infrastructure that runs our code.

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Discover, Copy, and Share Common Code with the New AWS Serverless Snippets Collection by Steef-Jan Wiggers
Recently, the AWS Serverless Developer Advocate team released the Serverless Snippets Collection. This new Serverless Land page makes it easier to find, copy, and share common code that can enhance productivity in serverless application development.

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Anti-Patterns: Event Driven Architecture by see
Over the past few years, microservices architecture gain lot of popularity. At first, it looks easy to implement it in the correct 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.

How to improve serverless deployment times with just 4 lines of code.
This is a story and guide on how i reduced the pipeline execution times from a monorepo-bitbucket based serverless project from 20min45sec down to 3min24sec.

3 Things to Know Before Building a Multi-Tenant Serverless App by Allen Helton
A few years ago I was given the privilege to take a team of engineers and “go figure out how to build in the cloud.” There were (mostly) no guidelines, just a vague idea on what kind app we were supposed to build. Sounds like a developer’s dream, right? It was.

Amazon DynamoDB now supports bulk imports from Amazon S3 to new DynamoDB tables
Amazon DynamoDB now makes it easier for you to migrate and load data into new DynamoDB tables by supporting bulk data imports from Amazon S3.

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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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