Top Links from Issue #223

This issue was published on February 28, 2023

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Most Popular Links

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Avoiding the Serverless Workflow Antipattern
A common pattern for teams moving from cron-based jobs to event-driven architectures is to start using AWS Lambda as the compute engine for asynchronous event handlers.

Amazon EventBridge: The missing piece to your app
Amazon EventBridge is a Serverless AWS Service that enables building event-driven applications with seamless integrations with multiple AWS Services and AWS Partner SaaS applications.

NordLocker is No Longer in "beta": A Confident Move to Serverless Architecture
London, United Kingdom, February 26, 2023 --(PR.com)-- NordLocker, an encrypted cloud storage provider, announced that after several years of intense development, it has removed the “beta” sign-off. Recently, NordLocker undertook important changes to become the platform it is now.

Say Goodbye to Your CDK Stacks: A Guide to Self-Destruction
Are you tired of constantly managing your CDK Stacks and dealing with the associated costs? If so, self-destructing CDK Stacks might be the solution you've been looking for.

Event-Driven Architectures vs. Event-Based Compute in Serverless Applications by /about
I recently delivered serverless training to some engineers, and there was confusion between two concepts that come up in discussons of serverless architectures.

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.

AWS App Runner now supports HTTP to HTTPS redirect
AWS App Runner now redirects incoming HTTP based requests to an App Runner service endpoint to HTTPS. Until now, incoming requests to an HTTP endpoint failed with timeout status response.

EventBridge Pipes: A comparison before and after by Antonio Lagrotteria
EventBridge Pipes is one of the most interesting releases of Reinvent 2022. It allows a point-to-point integration between AWS services with possibility of filtering, enrichment and transforming data.

AWS SAM connectors now supports multiple destinations
Serverless application developers can now define multiple destinations when integrating AWS services with AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) connectors. Previously, SAM customers needed to create a SAM connector definition for every source and destination pair.

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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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