Top Links from Issue #226

This issue was published on March 21, 2023

Has "serverless" become meaningless? 🤔

In this issue, we get Amazon Linux 2023, Apache EventMesh graduates to a Top-Level Project, and we explore the meaninglessness of serverless. Read the full issue...

Most Popular Links

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SST v2
SST v2 is ready. Here’s what’s new and how you can learn more about it. We completely rewrote SST to be simpler, faster, and easier to work with. Check out this video to get a quick sense of what SST v2 is all about.

How to test AWS Serverless Microservices - the proper way?
Table of Contents Testing strategies out there When it comes to testing software in general, and testing AWS Serverless Microservices more specifically, there are all kind of ways, shapes and forms to implement testing strategies: pyramid of testing ice-cream cone strategy ( mmmm, yummy 😋) hon

THE APACHE SOFTWARE FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES NEW TOP-LEVEL PROJECT APACHE® EVENTMESH by The Apache Software Foundation
Wilmington, DE, March 15, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 open source projects and initiatives, announced today Apache® EventMesh has graduated from incubation and is now a Top-Level Project (TLP)

Serverless & Well Architected by Kristi Perreault
Over the last few days, we’ve discussed a number of topics in the serverless space, covering storage, APIs, compute, and everything in between.

Implementing an event-driven serverless story generation application with ChatGPT and DALL-E
This post demonstrates how to integrate AWS serverless services with artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, ChatGPT, and DALL-E.

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.

Serverless Orchestration by Kristi Perreault
Are you still with me? I hope so, because I’m excited to discuss some of the really cool services in serverless that go beyond the basics of APIs, storage, and compute.

Serverless in 2023 by Mike Roberts
I was recently a guest on the ThoughtWorks Tech Podcast to give my thoughts about the state of Serverless today.

The Distance from Data to You in Edge Computing by Paul Scanlon
In recent months I’ve been taking a closer look at how data transfer works between the browser, the server, and the database, and have built a prototype application using Next.js and deployed it to Vercel to help visualize and calculate the distances that data has to travel between them.

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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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