Top Links from Issue #216

This issue was published on January 10, 2023

Keeping stateful and stateless resources together 🍰

In this issue, S3 objects get automatically encrypted, we get an action-packed Q4 serverless recap, and we look at why keeping stateful and stateless resources together makes a whole lotta good sense. Read the full issue...

Most Popular Links

Below are the most popular links from Issue #216 as chosen by our Off-by-none email subscribers. Sign up for the newsletter and help choose the most popular links each week!

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Designing Event-Driven Architecture by Santhoshkumar Ravi
The main objective of this blog post is to get you started on thinking serverless. You will get familiar with key Amazon Web Services and patterns that will be used to design event-driven architectures.

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Serverless Game by Paweł Piwosz
I started 2023 with something new. I was wondering, what could be interesting, fresh and exciting. And I found it. I invented... the game. Well, no, I invented The Game :) The Game of Serverless. My idea was to make it very interactive, community driven and community building one.

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About Amazon EventBridge Scheduler
Have you worked with Amazon EventBridge Rules? Have you tried creating cron jobs? or even made scheduled tasks? well for sure you have, Amazon released a new feature called Amazon EventBridge Scheduler, which makes our work more efficient and smoother.

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The AWS Serverless Badge
Amazon Web Services recently announced at Re:Invent an all-new way to demonstrate your AWS Serverless knowledge and skills with a verifiable, digital badge. This Serverless Learning Plan has been designed to help you get started building with Serverless technology.

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Is EventBridge Pipes the Missing Piece in Your Event-Driven Puzzle? by Mario Bittencourt
AWS announced a new service to its EventBridge family called EventBridge Pipes. The advertisement spiel promises to yet again reduce the complexity and amount of code you need to write to deliver a given functionality by leveraging an almost 50-year-old concept found in Unix-like systems: pipeline.

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.

Serverless ICYMI Q4 2022
Welcome to the 20th edition of the AWS Serverless ICYMI (in case you missed it) quarterly recap.

Serverless Security — Challenges and Best Practices by Akanksha Rana
Provisioning and maintaining virtual cloud infrastructure are bygone. Well, almost. Now with Serverless, routine tasks such as managing, patching, and securing infrastructure, are taken care of by the cloud providers.

From Zero to Hero... Send AWS SES Emails Like a Pro!
This article assumes the reader has basic knowledge of AWS SES (Simple Email Service), like being able to send simple emails using SES and Lambda or to verify an identity. This article is structured in three independent parts : three problems and their 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 “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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