Top Links from Issue #252

This issue was published on October 24, 2023

Customize your Code Completion 🤖

In this issue, CodeWhisperer gets customizable, Werner apologizes, and Ampt adds new AI capabilities. Read the full issue...


Most Popular Links

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Stop using AWS Lambda for everything! 🛑 by FarGate
AWS Serverless Showdown: Lambda vs ECS vs EKS - Which One Fits Your Startup Like a Glove? 🧤 Hey devs, how’s it going? 👋 If you're like me, you've probably dabbled in the AWS ecosystem, especially when you're keen on cutting down on infrastructure management and want to go the serverless rout

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Generating Mermaid Syntax Diagrams with AI-powered Amazon Bedrock 🧜🏼‍♀️ by Serverless Advocate
In today’s fast-paced development environment, efficient communication and collaboration are key to successful projects. In this article, we’ll explore how the power of generative AI, particularly with Amazon Bedrock, can revolutionise the way cross-functional engineering teams work together.

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I love the power of Single Table Design in @dynamodb , but @pj_naylor does a great job pointing out how misunderstood the concept is.
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I like to personally apologise to @RaphaelManke and @donkersgood for our actions yesterday. Both Raphael and Luc are tremendous assets to the AWS community and their Re:Invent Schedulers are serving a need for our customers. Raphael's is back, but sorry that Luc won't continue.
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Introducing Amazon CodeWhisperer customization capability (Preview)
Today, AWS announces the preview of an Amazon CodeWhisperer customization capability. With this new capability, you can customize CodeWhisperer to generate more precise suggestions by including your organization’s internal APIs, libraries, classes, methods, and best practices.

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.

Implementing the Transactional Outbox Pattern for Serverless Domain Events by Pete Naylor
Events are the key part of an Event-driven Architecture (EDA). They are the mechanism that allows services to communicate with each other in a decoupled way. For example, an Order Service emits an OrderCreated event when a new order is created.

Amazon DevOps Guru for the Serverless applications - Part 4 Anomaly Detection on API Gateway
In the 1st part of the series we introduced the Amazon DevOps Guru service, described its value proposition, the benefits of using it and explain how to configure it. We also need to go through all the steps in the 2nd part of the series to set everything up.

Bedrock unveiled: Indexing own data to OpenSearch Serverless via a Lambda by Antonio Lagrotteria
As Bedrock unveiled a few weeks ago, there is still a lot of turmoil in the domain, and I felt that my personal AI assistant, created earlier this year, had to keep up the pace by using its own data as part of its “knowledge”. Let’s recap the journey.

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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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