Top Links from Issue #232

This issue was published on May 2, 2023

Athena Provisioned Capacity 📈

In this issue, Athena gets provisioned capacity, Lambda supports Java 17, and Vercel announces Postgres and Redis options for frontend developers. Read the full issue...


Most Popular Links

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Use Events internally and APIs externally
I recently helped an AWS customer design a new system that had very specific non-functional requirements regarding how it integrates with external or 3rd party systems.

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Amazon OpenSearch Service announces Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion
Today Amazon OpenSearch Service announces Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion, a new fully managed data ingestion tier that allows you to ingest and process petabyte-scale data before indexing it in OpenSearch-managed clusters or serverless collections.

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Database Proxies and Why You Should Use Them by Daniel Weiskopf
When building a service with microservices, each microservice performs a specific task and can be independently deployed and scaled.

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Building private serverless APIs with AWS Lambda and Amazon VPC Lattice by James Beswick
This post was written by Josh Kahn, Tech Leader, Serverless. Amazon VPC Lattice is a new, generally available application networking service that simplifies connectivity between services.

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Introducing Athena Provisioned Capacity by SĂŠbastien Stormacq
Today we launch the ability to provision capacity to run your Amazon Athena queries.

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 AWS CDK Pipeline Best Practices & Patterns — Part 4 by Serverless Advocate
In Part 1 we covered an opinionated discussion around how to set up,structure, and deploy your AWS CDK Serverless apps using CDKPipelines in line with AWS best practices. You can view the link below:

AWS AppSync supports TypeScript and source maps in JavaScript resolvers
Today, AWS AppSync released enhanced support for TypeScript in JavaScript resolvers, along with integrated support for source maps in bundled JavaScript code.

Autonomous EventCatalog for documenting EventBridge Events by Kieran Wrenn
David Boyne has developed a great solution for cataloging events and for a while I have been wanting to use this catalog to document the events for the company I work for, however I wanted to do this autonomously as having to manually maintain this documentation is cumbersome.

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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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