Top Links from Issue #254

This issue was published on November 7, 2023

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Most Popular Links

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Understanding in depth how AWS Lambda layers work by arturoth
This story is about understanding how Lambda layers work in AWS because I have constantly found knowledge and also gaps in the developers’ teams that are important to highlight. A Lambda layer is a .zip file archive that contains supplementary code or data.

Introducing faster polling scale-up for AWS Lambda functions configured with Amazon SQS by James Beswick
This post was written by Anton Aleksandrov, Principal Solutions Architect, and Tarun Rai Madan, Senior Product Manager.

Towards Modern Development of Cloud Applications by Sanjay Ghemawat

Supercharge Your AWS Lambda Game With Lambda Powertools
So you’ve figured out how to run serverless code in AWS. Now what? Give your Lambda function superpowers with AWS Powertools for logging, metrics, and more When you first figure out how AWS Lambda works for the first time, it’s a complete game changer.

New models and developer products announced at DevDay
GPT-4 Turbo with 128K context and lower prices, the new Assistants API, GPT-4 Turbo with Vision, DALL·E 3 API, and more. Today, we shared dozens of new additions and improvements, and reduced pricing across many parts of our platform. These include:

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.

AWS CodeBuild now supports AWS Lambda compute
AWS CodeBuild customers can now use AWS Lambda as the underlying compute for building and testing of software packages. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces ready-to-deploy software packages.

Let’s CDK: The Energy Drink Episodes by Lee Priest
Ever since I started my foray into the world of Serverless, I have mainly worked with Serverless Framework for my day-to-day development tasks. Don’t get me wrong; I have no beef with Serverless Framework; it has served me well while using it.

AWS Lambda supports faster polling scale-up rate for Amazon SQS as an event source
AWS Lambda now supports up to 5x faster polling scale-up rate (adding up to 300 concurrent executions per minute) for spiky Lambda workloads configured with Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) as an event source using Lambda event source mapping or Amazon EventBridge Pipes.

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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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