Top Links from Issue #220
This issue was published on February 7, 2023
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In this issue, your cloud resources get on the 'sam list', we learn about the state of serverless and edge databases, and we clear up some confusion about the future of cloud development. Read the full issue...
Most Popular Links
Below are the most popular links from Issue #220 as chosen by our Off-by-none email subscribers. Sign up for the newsletter and help choose the most popular links each week!
Serverless Patterns
There are a couple of architecture patterns that I tend to use over and over again when I build new solutions. In this post I will give an overview why I use them and how I implement them in a serverless, and often event-driven, way on AWS. Storage-First is one of the patterns I use the most.
AWS DynamoDB Fundamentals | A Complete Guide by Huzaifa Asif
DynamoDB is a NoSQL database technology created by Amazon that is renowned for its high performance. As opposed to a Relational Database, NoSQL databases are not structured using tables and relations, but instead, data is stored using unique keys.
Which Back End Should I Use As A Front-End Developer? by Authentication
Choosing a service to store data can be confusing and overwhelming for a front-end developer. What are all these acronyms? Are the Amazon services named strange on purpose? These and many other questions await your journey into the back-end.
Serverless VPC Access by Jasbir
Serverless VPC Access makes it possible for you to connect directly to your VPC network from serverless environments such as Cloud Run, App Engine, or Cloud Functions.
Concurrency Control Using Lambdas and SQS by Mario Bittencourt
One of the first non-trivial issues anyone working with an asynchronous execution will face is how to handle concurrency. In this article, I will discuss the recent advancement of AWS to help deal with this more simply. But before letâs look at the problem and previous solutions available.
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.
Multithreading in AWS Lambda, Part 3: Multithreaded vs Multi-instance Lambda Architectures by JV Roig @ Cascadeo
In this âmultithreading in serverlessâ series, we dive into multithreading in AWS Lambda, looking at implementation, scaling, and even comparing multithreading vs multi-instance architectures.
New â Visualize Your VPC Resources from Amazon VPC Creation Experience by Channy Yun
Today we are announcing Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) resource map, a new feature that simplifies the VPC creation experience in the AWS Management Console.
How to throttle Amazon SP-API requests when delaying them with AWS Step Functions by A.E.Veltstra
You have to wait. Amazon Web Services lets us invoke AWS Lambda Functions using AWS Step Functions. That is useful, because the execution of a Step in a Step Function can be delayed. And that is useful, because Amazonâs SP-API (Selling Partner API) requires throttling of requests.
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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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