Top Links from Issue #234

This issue was published on May 16, 2023

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Most Popular Links

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Introducing Cedar, an open-source language for access control
Today, AWS open-sourced the Cedar policy language and authorization engine. You can use Cedar to express fine-grained permissions as easy-to-understand policies enforced in your applications, and you can decouple access control from your application logic.

Dodging the Lambda Pinball with DDD by Haiko van der Schaaf
The latest Thoughtworks radar of April 2023 warns of using serverless technology for it increases the complexity and risks ending up with a Lambda pinball architecture.

Serverless Lightweight Clean Code Approach by Serverless Advocate
Over the past week there have been a foray of articles and hot takes when it comes to hexagonal architecture, or ‘clean code’ in Serverless; and the advantages and disadvantages of this approach (i.e.

Why the fuss about conversational programming by swardley
In my last post on conversational programming I asked the reader to “get yourself ready for a world of conversational programming” but I wasn’t willing to call it for ChatGPT or the existing crop of LLMs. My advice was one of preparation and not nailing any colours to a mast.

How you should think about DynamoDB costs by /about
Last week, someone emailed me to ask about a potential cost optimization mechanism in DynamoDB.

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.

Let’s Architect! Designing serverless solutions by luca mezzalira
During his re:Invent 2022 keynote, Werner Vogels, AWS Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, emphasized the asynchronous nature of our world and the challenges associated with incorporating asynchronicity into our architectures.

My first book | Building Serverless Applications on AWS : A Step-by-Step Guide by Sagar Chauhan
Hey everyone! As a Senior Technical Product Manager who contributes to code on a daily basis, I’ve put together a concise yet comprehensive guide to help beginners and backend developers get started with serverless computing on AWS.

Learn serverless on AWS step-by-step - Step Functions
In this series, I try to explain the basics of serverless on AWS, to enable you to build your own serverless applications. With last article, we discovered how to create a REST API protected by authentication, using Cognito.

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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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