Top Links from Issue #224

This issue was published on March 7, 2023

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Most Popular Links

Below are the most popular links from Issue #224 as chosen by our Off-by-none email subscribers. Sign up for the newsletter and help choose the most popular links each week!

The Problem With Serverless — From a Serverless Addict by JV Roig @ Cascadeo
“The answer is serverless. What’s the question?” is a joke I often make. I’m a serverless addict. The less charitable might even say “serverless nutjob”.

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Serverless AWS CDK Pipeline Best Practices & Patterns — Part 2 by Serverless Advocate
✔️ We discuss adding code quality tools locally to the IDE and to the pipeline such as ESLint/TSLint and Prettier (inc pre-commit hooks with Husky) in line with best practices.✔️ We cover SAST tooling, in particular, cdk-nag in our pipeline to keep us secure from common issues.

Why companies fail on cloud? A perspective from a cloud consultant by Cagdas Ozbey
The cloud has become an increasingly popular destination for businesses looking to take advantage of its scalability, cost-effectiveness, and flexibility. However, despite the many benefits that cloud computing offers, not all companies that move to the cloud are successful.

The side effect of increasing developer responsibility by Jeremy Daly.
It wasn’t that long ago that the vast majority of developers didn’t worry much about infrastructure. Sure, there were plenty of us configuring Linux servers and setting up the occasional MySQL database, but that certainly wasn’t the norm.

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.

Easily Find Deprecated Runtimes on Your Lambda Functions
This article is part of a series about sls-mentor, the new open-source tool allowing you to audit your AWS serverless infrastructure. AWS Lambda has been around for a while now. It is a great service as it allows to run code on the cloud and is compatible with many programming languages.

Infrastructure as SQL on AWS: IaSQL Enters Beta Adding Multi-Region and Transactions by Renato Losio
The open-source service IaSQL recently announced its beta release. Designed to manage cloud infrastructure using SQL, IaSQL introduced support for AWS multi-region, new AWS services, and infrastructure changes as transactions.

Serverless Lessons - Location Is Everything! by Allen Helton
The serverless community talks about latency a lot. We talk about how service-to-service connections improve or decline over time. We talk about optimization strategies for Lambda. We debate over the best DynamoDB data modeling practices for performance.

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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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