Top Links from Issue #303
This issue was published on October 29, 2024
10 years of ECS 🎉
In this issue, Amazon ECS celebrates 10 years, Lambda gets a better console code editing experience, and there's a new fork of the Serverless Framework. Read the full issue...
Most Popular Links
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Qualities of a Good Cloud Architect
In 2020 I published a blog post called "What makes a good cloud architect?", where I tried to lay out some of the main qualities required to become a good cloud architect.
How we managed Aurora Serverless V2 Idle connections in RDS Proxy and saved RDS costs by 50% by Swakhil Mattapalli
In a recent migration from a standard RDS DB instance to Aurora RDS PostgreSQL Serverless V2, we encountered an unexpected issue. A significant and unexplained increase in database connections.
Lambda Tail Warming
If you're like me, AWS Lambda functions have become an integral part of your cloud toolbox. In fact, I use Lambda functions for just about everything.
Celebrating 10 Years of Amazon ECS: Powering a Decade of Containerized Innovation
Today, we celebrate 10 years of Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and its incredible journey of pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in the cloud! What began as a solution to streamline running Docker containers on Amazon Web Services (AWS) has evolved into a cornerstone technology, offe
oss-serverless/serverless
The Serverless Framework – Build applications on AWS Lambda and other next-gen cloud services, that auto-scale and only charge you when they run. This lowers the total cost of running and operating your apps, enabling you to build more and manage less.
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 an enhanced in-console editing experience for AWS Lambda by Julian Wood
AWS Lambda is introducing a new code editing experience in the AWS console based on the popular Code-OSS, Visual Studio Code Open Source code editor.
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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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