Top Links from Issue #208
This issue was published on November 8, 2022
Serverless goes mainstream? 🥂
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Most Popular Links
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How to reduce 40% cost in AWS Lambda without writing a line of code! by seza akgün
Sounds amazing right? Let’s dive deep into it. The lambda we worked on is responsible for validating, transforming, and distributing almost every event Insider collects from thousands of partners worldwide. This means this lambda is processing approximately 410 million records every day.
Serverless Clean Architecture & Code with Domain-Driven Design 🚀 by Lee James Gilmore
Using clean code and architectures in our Serverless solutions to ensure clean separation of code and infrastructure; with examples written in the AWS CDK and TypeScript.
David Boyne 🚀 by David Boyne ?
Busy week writing EventBridge content 😍👇 ✍🏻 Publish with DynamoDB https://t.co/I524K6X2Ss ✍🏻 Claim check pattern https://t.co/geplAR2fY7 ✍🏻Enrich Events https://t.co/YK7ojBuNK2 🧑💻 New CDK construct for schemas https://t.co/svfcz4TBHd Want mo
Using a cache to accelerate DynamoDB (or replace it)
It's no secret that I'm a big DynamoDB fan. I started using DynamoDB because of how well it worked with serverless applications, but I grew to love DynamoDB because of its consistent, predictable performance. It has made me wary of any service that has highly variable performance.
Serverless Platform Engineering by Jeremy Daly.
I’m a huge fan of Charity Majors, and I always learn something new when she shares her thoughts on anything that has to do with cloud and engineering. So when I came across this Twitter post, I grabbed some 🍿 and got ready to have my mind blown. I was not disappointed.
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.
When Is Serverless More Expensive Than Containers? by Allen Helton
I talk to a lot of people about serverless. Shocking, I know. We’ve already covered why we should stop talking about cold starts. But the question about cost at scale is one we haven’t covered yet.
To VPC or not to VPC...
If you are building on AWS you've probably run into the situation where you have a Lambda that needs to talk to a database. Easy right... well, it actually requires some non-trivial knowledge of concepts like VPCs, subnets, and security groups. Probably more than what you initially bargained for.
Cloudflare’s supercloud: This is what multicloud should have been by Dave Vellante
Over the past decade, Cloudflare Inc. has built a global network that has the potential to become the fourth U.S.-based hyperscale-class cloud. In our view, the company is building a durable revenue model with hooks into many important markets.
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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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