Top Links from Issue #295

This issue was published on September 3, 2024

Elasticsearch is open source, again 👀

In this issue, Step Functions get validated, Elasticsearch becomes open source (again), and Laravel teases a new cloud. Read the full issue...

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Elasticsearch is open source, again by Shay Banon
[D.N.A] Elasticsearch and Kibana can be called Open Source again. It is hard to express how happy this statement makes me. Literally jumping up and down with excitement here. All of us at Elastic are. Open source is in my DNA. It is in Elastic DNA.

Everything Suffers from Cold Starts
I pitch Lambda all the time. It's an amazing service that scales--in real-time--up to tens of thousands and down to zero. I encourage nearly all of the engineers I work with to begin with Lambdas as their compute layer (serverless first). Inevitably, I get the same pushback.

Framework Defined Infrastructure (FdI) – an Evolution of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) by Malte Ubl
Ubl: My name is Malte. I'm the CTO of Vercel. I want to talk about framework-defined infrastructure in quite some depth. Vercel is a frontend cloud. It gives your teams the tools and the capabilities to develop, preview, and ship at the moment of inspiration. That doesn't say too much.

Announcing Validation API for AWS Step Functions
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Amazon API Gateway integration timeout limit increase beyond 29 seconds

Is it safe to use ID tokens with Cognito authorizers? by Yan Cui
Yan Cui I help clients go faster for less using serverless technologies. A common narrative is that one should always use access tokens to call your APIs, while ID tokens are strictly for identifying users.

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.

Introducing Laravel Cloud by Eric L. Barnes
Taylor ended his Laracon 2024 keynote by unveiling Laravel Cloud, the Future of Shipping. The keynote was the first public demo of Laravel's new app platform for deploying Laravel apps instantly. During the demo, Taylor created a project and had a Laravel app up and running in 25 seconds 🤯

AWS WAF enhances rate-based rules to support lower rate limits
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Amazon API Gateway integration timeout limit increase beyond 29 seconds

AWS Advanced: Getting SES Production Access
We made this decision because we believe that your use case would impact the deliverability of our service and would affect your reputation as a sender. We also want to ensure that other Amazon SES users can continue to use the service without experiencing service interruptions.

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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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