Top Links from Issue #207

This issue was published on November 1, 2022

Is it really serverless? 🚫

In this issue, not-so-serverless Neptune goes GA, the serverless database race heats up, and we brace for the AWS pre:Invent firehose. Read the full issue...

Most Popular Links

Below are the most popular links from Issue #207 as chosen by our Off-by-none email subscribers. Sign up for the newsletter and help choose the most popular links each week!

When to use a Lambda function, and when not? by Jérôme Van Der Linden
Since its release in 2014, AWS Lambda has seen an incredible growth. Today, billions of functions are invoked every day and they are now the way to go for many different workloads and operations tasks.

Neptune Serverless - "is it really Serverless?"
This is my longform article from a recent tweet thread covering some initial thoughts on "Amazon Neptune Serverless". 1. Neptune Serverless 2. Serverless means "Scale to Zero" 2.1. Neptune Serverless does not Scale to Zero. 3.

What to consider when modernizing APIs with GraphQL on AWS by Lewis Tang
In the next few years, companies will build over 500 million new applications, more than has been developed in the previous 40 years combined (see IDC article). API operations enable innovation.

Why we’re leaving the electric grid by Jeremy Daly
We have been running on the electric grid exclusively since we started our business many years ago. We’ve run extensively in both Pacific Gas & Electric and Southern California Edison. We’ve run on fossil fuels, we’ve run on nuclear, we’ve run on renewable energy sources.

Amazon Neptune Serverless is now generally available
Amazon Neptune Serverless is a new deployment option that automatically scales capacity based on the needs of the application, making it easy and cost effective for developers to run graph databases without managing database capacity.

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.

The Power of AWS SAM & AWS CDK together 🚀 by Lee James Gilmore
In this article we are going to cover speeding up your AWS CDK serverless development through two key features; AWS CDK Hotswapping and tailing logs with the AWS SAM CLI. ⚠️ Note: The code repo is a basic example to show the high level approach in practice, and is not production ready.

AWS App Runner launches support for PHP, Go, .Net, and Ruby managed runtimes
AWS App Runner now supports PHP 8.1, Go 1.18, .Net 6, and Ruby 3.1 managed runtimes for building and running web applications and APIs.

A different way of retrieving secrets in Lambda functions
We can now retrieve secrets with the new Parameter Store and Secrets Manager extension. We don't need the SDK for this operation, which means a smaller package size and faster deployment for our Lambda functions. AWS announced the new AWS Parameters and Secrets Lambda Extension a few days ago.

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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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