Top Links from Issue #300

This issue was published on October 8, 2024

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Most Popular Links

Below are the most popular links from Issue #300 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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Avoiding the Lambda Doom Loop by AJ Stuyvenberg
There have been a number of recent changes in the Lambda sandbox environment, mostly transparent ones like changing the Runtime API IP address and port to a link-local IP.

2

WP Engine sues Automattic and WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg by Ivan Mehta
Hosting provider WP Engine has filed a lawsuit against Automattic and WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg, accusing them of extortion and abuse of power.

3

Integrating Data with AWS Glue, Dynamodb, S3 and Amazon Athena
Overview AWS Glue is a fully managed ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) service that simplifies data preparation for analytics. This guide details the steps to extract data from two DynamoDB tables, transform it using AWS Glue, load it into Amazon S3, and analyze it using Amazon Athena.

4

Patent troll Sable pays up, dedicates all its patents to the public! by Emily Terrell
Back in February, we celebrated our victory at trial in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas against patent trolls Sable IP and Sable Networks. This was the culmination of nearly three years of litigation against Sable, but it wasn’t the end of the story. 

5

AWS Application Composer is now AWS Infrastructure Composer
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.

AWS CodePipeline introduces new general purpose compute action
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Amazon API Gateway integration timeout limit increase beyond 29 seconds

Kubernetes 1.31 now a 'truly vendor-neutral platform' thanks to removal of built-in cloud provider code by Tim Anderson
The newly released Kubernetes 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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