Top Links from Issue #239

This issue was published on June 20, 2023

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Most Popular Links

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Amazon cloud services back up after big outage hits thousands of users by Samrhitha A
June 13 (Reuters) - Amazon.com (AMZN.O) said cloud services offered by its unit, Amazon Web Services (AWS), were restored after a big disruption on Tuesday affected websites of the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the Boston Globe among others.

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Reducing Lambda bundle size with EsBuild and Lambda layers by MiKi Digital
Serverless is becoming increasingly popular as it lifts the burden of having to manage your servers and is more economical than cloud containers or on-premise servers. Popular BE frameworks like NestJS allow you to switch from containerized to lambda quite easily. https://docs.nestjs.

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Simplify How You Manage Authorization in Your Applications with Amazon Verified Permissions – Now Generally Available by Danilo Poccia
When developing a new application or integrating an existing one into a new environment, user authentication and authorization require significant effort to be correctly implemented.

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Dependency Injection for Serverless Applications by MidJourney
Dependency Injection (DI) is a software design pattern that addresses how components obtain their dependencies. In this context, the term “dependency” often refers to an object used to handle some logic that is not the responsibility of the client code where it is used.

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The Elusive Lambda Console; A Specification Proposal. by Ken Collins
After years of smashing Cloud & Rails together, I've come up with an idea.

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.

OpenAI Streaming from AWS Lambda by llm blogs
Introduction: Welcome to a comprehensive guide on building real-time AI-powered WebSocket APIs using AWS services. In this tutorial, we will explore how to set up an AWS WebSocket API Gateway that integrates with OpenAI to provide real-time AI responses.

Why I stopped using OpenFaaS by Goncalo Oliveira
Adopting an open-source project can sometimes be complicated. The community might lack resources, the direction might not meet your expectations or simply the project becomes inactive.

In the Great Microservices Debate, Value Eats Size for Lunch by Anoop Balakuntalam
In May, an old hot topic in software design long thought to be settled was stirred up again, sparked by an article from the Amazon Prime Video architecture team about moving from serverless microservices to a monolith.

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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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