Top Links from Issue #287

This issue was published on July 9, 2024

Serverless is dead... again 💀

In this issue, Amazon Q Developer takes over your IDE, some folks want to make it easier to get started with AWS, and Girls in Tech shuts down after 17 years. Read the full issue...

Most Popular Links

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Serverless cloud technology fades away by David Linthicum
It is becoming increasingly evident that serverless technology is losing relevance and will soon fade away in the cloud technology space. Why did this happen? What can we learn from this evolution of technology?

AWS Lambda introduces new controls to make it easier to search, filter, and aggregate Lambda function logs
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Amazon API Gateway integration timeout limit increase beyond 29 seconds

Girls in Tech closes its doors after 17 years by Dean Takahashi
The Girls in Tech nonprofit women’s tech community is closing its doors after 17 years, according to a newsletter from founder Adriana Gascoigne. Gascoigne said the decision was made with “sadness and devastation” and was not made lightly.

AI’s moment of disillusionment by Matt Asay
Well, that didn’t take long. After all the “this time it’s different” comments about artificial intelligence (We see you, John Chambers!), enterprises are coming to grips with reality. AI isn’t going to take your job. It’s not going to write your code.

Amazon Q Developer is now generally available (GA) in the Visual Studio IDE
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Amazon API Gateway integration timeout limit increase beyond 29 seconds

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.

Comparing AWS Step Functions and Temporal: A Developer’s Perspective by Allen Helton
I build a lot of automations. My imagination often runs wild with things I’d like to create and try out, and usually I go build them. But then I have a choice to make: do I maintain them forever or do I abandon them and hope I took some lessons away.

I’m sorry, but the way you adopt serverless is wrong by Yan Cui
Are dashboards a thing of the past? Or maybe they just need to evolve with the times?

AI industry needs to earn $600 billion per year to pay for massive hardware spend — fears of an AI bubble intensify in wake of Sequoia report by Anton Shilov
Despite massive investments in AI infrastructure by high-tech giants, revenue growth from AI has yet to materialize, indicating a significant gap in the ecosystem's end-user value.

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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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