Top Links from Issue #267

This issue was published on February 20, 2024

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Designing Events: Event Driven Architecture EDA by Robert Bulmer
Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) is an architectural pattern that focuses on the production, detection, consumption, and reaction to events. An event, in this context, is a immutable change or occurrence that has relevance within the system. In this post we will focus specifically on Event Design.

AWS Lambda Request Timeline
Have you ever thought you understood the timeline of a request in AWS Lambda only to stare at your logs and traces and find out that you didn't? The official documentation has diagrams that look pretty, but don't convey everything that is important.

Comparing Container and Zip Lambdaliths with Thin Functions by Ryan Cormack
In a world where time costs money, making small changes can give you big savings. In a highly cyclical business you may be left with a large amount of wasted or unutilised resources. A Serverless platform makes a lot of sense here, taking advantage of little to no baseline cost and fast scaling.

How to secure CI/CD roles without burning production to the ground
By now, most of us have moved away from using IAM users for CI/CD pipelines. Instead, we’d use dedicated CI/CD roles, one for each pipeline. This forces us to consider who can assume this role. Identity federation is widely supported by 3rd-party providers such as GitHub Actions [1].

Building a log search service for under $7/month by Rémi Dettai
In this blog post, we’ll show you how to build a simple log search service using AWS CDK and Quickwit Lambdas on a budget. The default go-to solution to set up a search service on AWS is the OpenSearch service. However, you must be careful as cloud costs can easily get out of hand:

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 Lambda Runtime Debate by Omid Eidivandi (XaaXaaX)
The AWS Lambda runtime battle is one of my favorite ones, i found this a great learning path since i use the AWS lambda. i had a lot of movements between runtimes and during all the long way i found pros and cons when dealing with runtimes. Along my journey i worked with C#, NODEJS, Python and Java.

Unlocking Sentiment: Harnessing YouTube API and AWS DynamoDB for YouTube Comment Analysis with HuggingFace’s LLM Sentimental Models 🚀🔍✨ by Harish Ahamed
In today’s digital age, online platforms like YouTube serve as vast repositories of user-generated content, including videos and comments. 🌐 Analyzing the sentiment of YouTube video comments can provide valuable insights into audience reactions, preferences, and engagement levels.

API Gateway now supports TLS 1.3
API Gateway now supports version 1.3 of the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol on its Regional REST, HTTP, and WebSocket endpoints. TLS 1.3 on API Gateway works by offloading encryption and decryption of TLS traffic from your application servers to API Gateway. TLS 1.

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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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