Top Links from Issue #215
This issue was published on January 3, 2023
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Most Popular Links
Below are the most popular links from Issue #215 as chosen by our Off-by-none email subscribers. Sign up for the newsletter and help choose the most popular links each week!
Redirecting AWS Lambda invocations to local for Debugging & Hot-Reloading without disrupting the flow by barĹŠkaya
AWS Lambda can offer several benefits, including improved scalability, flexibility, and cost-efficiency.
Achieving idempotency in the AWS serverless space by Qasim Albaqali
Recently I experienced something that you usually hear about when going through resources around cloud and distributed systems, which is everything fails and you need to plan for it. This doesnât just mean infrastructure failure but also software failure.
Serverless Architecture Layers & DDD (Part 4)âââThe Data Layer by Lee James Gilmore
In this article we are going to do a deeper dive into the Data Layer which is layer four of the five Serverless Architecture Layers of enterprise organisations, all of which is based on domain-driven design (DDD).
AWS Serverless Event-driven architecture by Chirag Darji
Serverless event-driven architecture is a design pattern that allows you to build and run applications and services that automatically trigger actions based on events.
Should I use AWS Lambda SnapStart? by Mohamed Latfalla
One of the main issues that makes Lambda struggle in some scenarios is Cold Start. Which is the time that Lambda takes for the first execution. Cold start is the first execution after a new version got published or an exection after a long inactive period of time, mainly.
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.
A first look at the new GitLab Web IDE and remote development experience
A little while back I wrote about the future of the GitLab Web IDE and our decision to rebuild the Web IDE on top of the open source VS Code project. Our goal: To make it simple for anyone and everyone to contribute, regardless of their development experience.
The âEnd of Programmingâ will look a lot like programming by Ben Kehoe
Communications of the ACM has a new article titled âThe End of Programmingâ by Matt Welsh. It posits that traditional programs âwill be replaced by AI systems that are trained rather than programmedâ (emphasis in the original). Welsh is âthe CEO and co-founder of Fixie.
Serverless Testing, Part 3: Simplify Testing with SOLID Architecture
Serverless Testing, Part 1: What I forgot at the beginning starts with what I forgot when I started building serverless solutions.
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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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