Top Links from Issue #217

This issue was published on January 17, 2023

Visual Designers, Serverless, and You! 🎨

In this issue, AWS Lambda gets a Maximum Concurrency for SQS, we learn the importance of 'first principle thinking', and we ponder the need for visual infrastructure design tools. Read the full issue...

Most Popular Links

Below are the most popular links from Issue #217 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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Decoupling Microservices with AWS EventBridge Pipes by Christian Bannes
AWS introduced a new service called EventBridge Pipes. It is used to create point-to-point integrations between event producers and consumers with optional transform, filter and enrich steps.

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Retry of Messages Using Amazon EventBridge Pipes, Amazon SQS, And AWS Step Functions by Javier Mendoza
Amazon Eventbridge Pipes was launched on the last re: invent 2022. Amazon EventBridge Pipes allows you to glue different AWS services and optionally filter or enrich the structure of the events passed from consumers to producers.

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A Practical Guide to Implementing Amazon EventBridge by Waleed Rafi
Are you looking for a way to easily connect and automate your applications and services? Amazon Event Bridge is a serverless event bus that makes it easy to route events from one application to another for further processing or triggering of other actions.

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AWS Lambda now supports Maximum Concurrency for Amazon SQS as an event source
AWS Lambda now supports setting Maximum Concurrency to the Amazon SQS event source. Maximum Concurrency for SQS as an event source allows customers to control the maximum concurrent invokes by the Amazon SQS event source.

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Yes, S3 now encrypts objects by default, but your job is not done yet
Encryption at rest has long been a cornerstone in data security and it’s something that everyone should take seriously. If an attacker is able to get a hold of your data, encryption at rest becomes your last line of defence.

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.

API Mismatch: Why bolting SQL onto noSQL is a terrible idea
TLDR; Use abstractions that are designed to hide the complexity of the underlying technology, not those that expose its limitations and do not match its semantic model. I've not had that much to do with Prisma, but its API seems self-explanatory.

How to Use the Strangler Fig Pattern in Serverless Stack by Julien Bras
I am currently working on the architecture of a new project for my company. This new project must be compatible with a historical monolith, then extend it. It’s a common case to rewrite an existing application with the modern toolkit.

Introducing easy custom event monitoring for serverless applications.
Track any custom event and get notified in real time. Today we are excited to announce scheduled searches – a new feature on Dashbird that allows you to track any log event across your stack, turn it into time-series metric and also configure alert notifications based on it.

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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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