Top Links from Issue #225

This issue was published on March 14, 2023

The weary serverless traveler ✈️

In this issue, AWS Application Composer goes GA, we get some new heroes, and serverless PHP reaches another milestone. Read the full issue...

Most Popular Links

Below are the most popular links from Issue #225 as chosen by our Off-by-none email subscribers. Sign up for the newsletter and help choose the most popular links each week!

Bref 2.0 is released 🎉
The work on what would be Bref 2.0 started in October 2021, about 1.5 year ago. We went through many different strategies, experiments, rewrites, over 700 commits to finally land with the stable release.

New – Use Amazon S3 Object Lambda with Amazon CloudFront to Tailor Content for End Users by Danilo Poccia
With S3 Object Lambda, you can use your own code to process data retrieved from Amazon S3 as it is returned to an application.

Introducing Mountpoint for Amazon S3, a high performance open source file client
We are pleased to announce the alpha release of Mountpoint for Amazon S3, a new open source file client that delivers high throughput access, lowering compute costs for data lakes on Amazon S3.

AWS Application Composer Now Generally Available – Visually Build Serverless Applications Quickly by Channy Yun
At AWS re:Invent 2022, we previewed AWS Application Composer, a visual builder for you to compose and configure serverless applications from AWS services backed by deployment-ready infrastructure as code (IaC). In the keynote, Dr. Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon.com said:

AWS Application Composer is now generally available
AWS Application Composer helps you simplify and accelerate architecting, configuring, and building serverless applications. You can drag, drop, and connect AWS services into an application architecture by using the AWS Application Composer browser-based visual canvas.

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.

The inside story on Mountpoint for Amazon S3, a high-performance open source file client by James Bornholt
Amazon S3 is the best place to build data lakes because of its durability, availability, scalability, and security.

Service Discovery for Serverless Microservices on AWS by Jason Butz
Across all my experience with microservices, coupling has been the single most significant cause of headaches. It requires effort and conscious decisions to avoid tightly coupling microservices together.

Celebrate Amazon S3’s 17th birthday at AWS Pi Day 2023 by Sébastien Stormacq
AWS Pi Day 2023 is live today starting at 13:00 PDT; join us on the AWS on Air channel on Twitch. On this day 17 years ago, we launched a very simple object storage service.

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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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