Top Links from Issue #210

This issue was published on November 22, 2022

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Most Popular Links

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From Postgres to Amazon DynamoDB by Manas Paldhe
Instacart is the leading online grocery company in North America. Users can shop from more than 75,000 stores with more than 500 million products on shelves. We have millions of active users who regularly place multiple orders with tens of items in their cart every month.

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The Current State of Infrastructure From Code by Allen Helton
This post has been a long time coming. Back in September, I teased about my first impressions of Infrastructure from Code (IfC). Around that time I began an experiment. I wanted to see how people were approaching the Infrastructure from code problem.

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AWS AppSync releases JavaScript support for GraphQL API resolvers
AWS AppSync is a managed service that makes it easier to build scalable APIs that connect applications to data.

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Fighting off fake-serverless bandits with the true definition of serverless
The term serverless became widely accepted about seven years ago—but its mission has been around for almost two decades. In fact, Simple Queuing Service (SQS) and S3—launched 2004 and 2006—have always been serverless.

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What open source gets wrong with Mastodon by Matt Asay
In tech Twitter’s rush to replace Twitter with Mastodon, we seem to be falling into an old trap, one that has long bedeviled tech and, in particular, the open source corner of tech. That problem, of course, is tech. And open source.

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.

Node.js 18.x runtime now available in AWS Lambda by James Beswick
This post is written by Suraj Tripathi, Cloud Consultant, AppDev. You can now develop AWS Lambda functions using the Node.js 18 runtime. This version is in active LTS status and considered ready for general use. When creating or updating functions, specify a runtime parameter value of nodejs18.

Generate an Amazon S3 pre-signed URL with AWS Lambda and Amazon Api Gateway by Raffaele Garofalo
Following-up on my previous post (Handle File Upload with AWS Lambda and Amazon Api Gateway), I received some questions on “how can I securely upload a File without passing through an AWS Lambda?”. Here you go, the technique used is called Amazon S3 pre-signed URL.

Handling different types of cron jobs using Schedule Expressions with AWS by codetelo
I’ve been working on a few different cron jobs recently and one of things I’ve come up against is just making no-nonsense scheduled cron jobs.

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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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