Top Links from Issue #258

Step Functions re:Invented by Matthew Venne
Native Step Function Action to make HTTP Request to Third Party API. — No need to write Lambda functions to do this anymore — for most use cases.

10 things you need to know about AWs event-driven architecture
Event-driven architecture (EDA) is a design paradigm that emphasizes the production, detection, consumption, and reaction to events in a system. In the context of AWS, event-driven architecture is a fundamental approach to building scalable, loosely coupled, and resilient systems.

5 Serverless Best Practices to Become a Skilled Cloud Architect
In this article, I will go through 5 low cost, high impact serverless best practices that will help you build faster, cheaper, greener, more secure and stable applications on AWS. Each best practice is illustrated with an infographic, to make it easy to understand and share with your colleagues.

Highscalability is Up For Sale by Todd Hoff
First, I’d like to sincerely thank everyone who has supported Highscalability over the years. We’ve grown together through some interesting times. Massive changes have occurred in how systems are built, and my goal has always been to help people learn how to build them better.

Elasticache Serverless — is it bad or just not for you? by Marcin Sodkiewicz
TL;DR; I am going through the features, and why those might be great for some companies and then I am comparing pricing to the non-serverless version, and finally I am doing a small comparison to the serverless competitor — Momento. First of all, let’s start with presenting the service itself.