Top Links from Issue #209
This issue was published on November 15, 2022
The future of cloud development đŽ
In this issue, we are Ampt about the future of cloud development, Cloudflare introduces the 'Supercloud', and EventBridge launches a new scheduler. Read the full issue...
Most Popular Links
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Serverless Cloud spins off as Ampt by Austen Collins
With the introduction of the Serverless Framework in 2015, Serverless, Inc. has been at the forefront of serverless, continuously pushing its limits while helping millions of developers move their workloads to the cloud.
The cloud isnât the issue, youâre just using it wrong by Jeremy Daly.
#Tech Twitter was all abuzz recently after DHH boldly proclaimed and explained why [37signals is] leaving the cloud. A lot of people cheered, some of us jeered, and everyone else just pitched web3 as an alternative solution.
How to Scan a 23 GB DynamoDB Table in One Minute by Vlad Holubiev
While running DynamoDB workloads in production with over 500 GB of data for a couple of years, I accumulated a couple of lessons learned that Iâll be sharing. One of them I wrote previously about: How to Speed-up Long DynamoDB Queries by 2x. AWS DynamoDB is a great database.
Understanding Total Cost of Ownership of Serverless and Container Applications by Allen Helton
Last week I published an article discussing when serverless is more expensive than containers. In that post, I did a simple comparison between Lambda, EC2, and App Runner to show relative compute costs.
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.
Lambda Telemetry API: a new way to process Lambda telemetry data in real-time by Yan Cui
Back in 2020, we covered the launch of Lambda Extensions and the subsequent release of the Lambda Logs API. These features arenât designed for the average Lambda user. But they allow vendors to build better tools by giving them much-needed access to the Lambda execution environment.
Amazon EventBridge now supports enhanced filtering capabilities
Amazon EventBridge now supports additional filtering capabilities including the ability to match against characters at the end of a value (suffix filtering), to ignore case sensitivity (equals-ignore-case), and to have a single EventBridge rule match if any conditions across multiple separate fields
Amazon EventBridge Launches New Scheduler
Today, we are excited to launch Amazon EventBridge Scheduler, expanding its current scheduling capabilities by making it simple for developers to create, execute, and manage scheduled tasks at scale.
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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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