Top Links from Issue #249

This issue was published on October 3, 2023

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Most Popular Links

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D1: open beta is here by Matt Silverlock
D1 is now in open beta, and the theme is “scale”: with higher per-database storage limits and the ability to create more databases, we’re unlocking the ability for developers to build production-scale applications on D1.

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Avoid Common Pitfalls with Serverless Architecture – Expert Tips by Sam Williams
Navigating the terrain of modern computing can feel fraught with complexity and potential missteps. Among these paths lies serverless architecture—a potent, innovative solution cloaked in a shroud of both excitement and apprehension.

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Hyperdrive: making databases feel like they’re global by Matt Silverlock
Hyperdrive makes accessing your existing databases from Cloudflare Workers, wherever they are running, hyper fast. You connect Hyperdrive to your database, change one line of code to connect through Hyperdrive, and voilà: connections and queries get faster (and spoiler: you can use it today).

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Amazon Bedrock is now generally available
Amazon Bedrock, the easiest way to build and scale generative AI applications with foundation models (FMs), is now generally available.

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Announcing incremental export to S3 for Amazon DynamoDB
Today, Amazon DynamoDB announces the general availability of incremental export to S3, that allows you to export only the data that has changed within a specified time interval. With incremental exports, you can now export data that was inserted, updated or deleted, in small increments.

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.

World of serverless: AWS Lambda & EventBridge
In the world of serverless computing and event-driven architectures, AWS cloud offers powerful tools to help developers build highly responsive and scalable applications.

New Workers pricing — never pay to wait on I/O again by Rita Kozlov
Today we are announcing new pricing for Cloudflare Workers and Pages Functions, where you are billed based on CPU time, and never for the idle time that your Worker spends waiting on network requests and other I/O.

AWS Application Composer now supports all 1000+ AWS CloudFormation resources
Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc launches expanded resource support for AWS Application Composer, from 13 to all 1000+ resources supported by AWS CloudFormation.

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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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