Top Links from Issue #203
This issue was published on October 4, 2022
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Most Popular Links
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DynamoDB: 5 specific ways to supercharge your database design by Rawad Haber
So youâve started working on your first serverless application, you know a thing or two about designing back-end applications but have worked with things like Express, or any backend framework, alongside Postgres behind an ORM like Prisma, Sequelize, or TypeORM.
Guaranteed event ordering when using Amazon EventBridge as your Enterprise Service Bus by Lee James Gilmore
We are going to cover why we need to use the flexible domain events pattern when using Amazon EventBridge as our enterprise service bus (ESB) within our organisation, guaranteeing ordering and deduplication of messages for consuming domains âwhere requiredâ.
Managing workflows with AWS Step Functions by Gedas Gardauskas
Continuous integration and continuous delivery (or sometimes deployment) (CI/CD) pipeline is a no-brainer and a standard tool in the industry. It can perform a series of steps to deliver a new software version in an automated way.
3 pitfalls of Serverless Development Ownership by Bob Donderwinkel
Developing in a Serverless stack can be great. You can work in every layer of the stack to implement a feature from backend to frontend, which is precisely what I have been doing in the AWS Serverless arena this last year.
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.
DynamoDB: PartiQL Is Fun, but Dangerous by JV Roig @ Cascadeo
DynamoDB is awesome. Its default interface for making queries though, the DynamoDB API, is verbose and not really developer-friendly.
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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 âserver-fullâ 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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