Top Links from Issue #255

This issue was published on November 14, 2023

Fumbling with AWS 🏈

In this issue, AWS Lambda upgrades to Amazon Linux 2023, AWS messaging services get even better, and developers continue to fumble with AWS. Read the full issue...

Most Popular Links

Below are the most popular links from Issue #255 as chosen by our Off-by-none email subscribers. Sign up for the newsletter and help choose the most popular links each week!

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Stop using Lambda Layers (use this instead)
Lambda layers are a special packaging mechanism provided by AWS Lambda to manage dependencies for zip-based Lambda functions. Layers themselves are nothing more than a sparkling zip file, but they have a few interesting properties which prove useful in some cases.

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Amazon SQS announces support for JSON protocol
Today, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) announces support for JSON protocol, enabling lower latency and improved performance for SQS customers.

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An Event-Driven Architecture for a Pizza Delivery Events Flow by Gabriel Gomes, PhD
Imagine the following scenario: you are the owner of a Pizzeria. The number of daily orders you have to deal with has become so big that you needed to come up with a scalable architecture in the Cloud, to handle a part of your events flow.

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Amazon Bedrock For JavaScript and TypeScript Developers by Matteo Depascale
Hey! If you are here, it means you are planning to use Amazon Bedrock, and every example you see uses Python. So, you might have typed on Google something like '"Amazon" "Bedrock" "Typescript"' and somehow you ended up here (not complaining though 😜). This blog post covers examples in Node.

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AWS App Runner by Mani
Not (enough) many people seem to know AWS App Runner yet ..

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.

Cloud Functions Combed 🪮 by Nino Handler
A fresh cloud functions project is like fresh baby hair. No need to comb, looks cute and grows without you realizing it. Everything goes into index.ts.

When ChatGPT met AWS Serverless by Debasis Rath
In today’s fast-paced world, convenience is king, and what’s more convenient than a bot that understands your coffee cravings? Meet Cafe Chatista, the innovative coffee ordering assistant that’s transforming how we indulge in our daily caffeine fix.

Deploy your first Node 20 Lambda function on AWS!
AWS released a public base image for Node 20 Lambda runtime last week. It is now possible to deploy Node 20 Lambda functions on AWS, by using this image with ECR (Elastic Container Registry).

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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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