Top Links from Issue #235

This issue was published on May 23, 2023

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Most Popular Links

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“AWS CDK Serverless Cookbook” eBook by Miguel A. Calles
Miguel A. Calles I started developing serverless applications on Amazon Web Services in 2018. The team used the Serverless Framework heavily. The framework made it simple to begin developing serverless applications on AWS.

Breaking Bad Practices with CDK Aspects
In the ever-evolving landscape of cloud infrastructure, AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) continues to stand as a groundbreaking tool, simplifying the process of defining cloud resources. Within this universe, Aspects—a feature within CDK—hold a distinctive position.

Deploy Serverless Generative AI on AWS Lambda with OpenLLaMa by Sean Bailey
We are witnessing a revolution in the field of artificial intelligence, with an explosion of generative AI capabilities across a multitude of platforms.

Using Plop to improve our Serverless Developer Experience by Serverless Advocate
Hat-tip Allen Helton on the use of Amazon Polly! In the ‘advocate-cli’ folder we run npm i, npm run build, and npm run link.

History and future of Infrastructure as Code by Adam Ruka
Infrastructure as Code is a fascinating domain of software development.

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 S3 to R2 Super Slurper is now Generally Available by Phillip Jones
R2 is Cloudflare’s zero egress fee object storage platform. One of the things that developers love about R2 is how easy it is to get started. With R2’s S3-compatible API, integrating R2 into existing applications only requires changing a couple of lines of code.

Recapping Developer Week by Ricky Robinett
Developer Week 2023 is officially a wrap. Last week, we shipped 34 posts highlighting what has been going on with our developer platform and where we’re headed in the future – including new products & features, in-depth tutorials to help you get started, and customer stories to inspire you.

D1: We turned it up to 11 by Matt Silverlock
We’re not going to bury the lede: we’re excited to launch a major update to our D1 database, with dramatic improvements to performance and scalability. Alpha users (which includes any Workers user) can create new databases using the new storage backend right now with the following command:

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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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