Top Links from Issue #231

This issue was published on April 25, 2023

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Most Popular Links

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Serverless Asynchronous REST APIs on AWS by Zied Ben Tahar
In a previous article, we explored how to use the API Gateway WebSocket API to provide real-time, asynchronous feedback and responses to its clients.

Learn How to Write AWS Lambda Functions with Three Architecture Layers by Ran Isenberg
Writing all your business domain logic code in the Lambda handler entry function can be very tempting. I've heard many excuses during the code review: "It's just a few dozen lines of code" or "It's still very readable."

How Kubernetes And Kafka Will Get You Fired by Jan Kammerath
I get to see a lot of companies, their infrastructure and their systems architecture through my consulting activities. Over the past 10 years both Kubernetes and Apache Kafka have become extremely common and popular in many businesses. And very often not for the good.

The Serverless Toolbox - Tools To Build Serverless Apps Easier by Allen Helton
I recently wrote about some of the benefits of building a bunch of side projects. I talked about building automations to take over mundane, everyday tasks, but one of the main points I mentioned was nagging at me a bit.

Amazon updates threat detection capabilities for containers, databases and serverless apps by Mike Wheatley
More threat detection capabilities are coming to Amazon Web Services Inc.’s Amazon GuardDuty platform. The updates, announced today, are designed to improve customer security and better protect their AWS resources from malicious and unauthorized behavior, the company said.

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.

Announcing the general availability of Amazon CodeCatalyst
Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon CodeCatalyst, a unified software development service that makes it easier for you to quickly build and deliver applications on AWS.

Announcing Amazon GuardDuty support for AWS Lambda
Amazon GuardDuty expands threat detection coverage to continuously monitor network activity logs, starting with VPC Flow Logs, generated from the execution of AWS Lambda functions to detect threats to Lambda such as functions maliciously repurposed for unauthorized cryptocurrency mining, or compromi

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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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