Top Links from Issue #314
This issue was published on February 4, 2025
Apache Iceberg, right ahead! š§
In this issue,DeepSeek makes its way to AWS and Microsoft, BigQuery gets its own metastore, and Ampt adds support for Node.js 22. Read the full issue...
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Caught in a Cost Optimization Trap: Aurora Serverless v2 with RDS Proxy
I was using a db.t3.medium Aurora instance for my development environment, but with CPU utilization hovering around 10%, it was significantly underutilized. After comparing instance costs, I discovered that if the Aurora Capacity Unit (ACU) usage stayed near the minimum capacity (0.
Amazon S3 is more than storage and brings in a lot for analytics
At AWS re:Invent 2024, Amazon S3 announced S3 Tables and S3 Metadata (preview) specifically for analytics workloads.
AI is Creating a Generation of Illiterate Programmers
I stared at my terminal facing those red error messages that I hate to see. An AWS error glared back at me. I didnāt want to figure it out without AIās help. After 12 years of coding, Iād somehow become worse at my own craft.
Rust vs Node ā Kafka producer performance with AWS Lambda
If you have heard of Rust, you are probably aware of how performant the language is when compared to the other programming languages of today. To explore how much of a difference we are talking I ran a very simple load test on two AWS Lambda functions; one on Node and the other on Rust.
Cheating Lambda scalability
I am one of those people that can be defined as serverless first. Almost everything can be serverless, and with some bending, you can find a way when serverless has limitations.
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.
Amazon EventBridge enhances event source discovery in the console
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Amazon RDS Proxy announces caching_sha2_password authentication support for MySQL on Aurora and RDS
[Mini Project] Serverless URL Shortener Using AWS Lambda, Api Gateway and DynamoDB
In this tutorial, we will walk through building a Serverless URL Shortener using AWS services like Lambda, API Gateway, and DynamoDB.
DeepSeek-R1 models now available on AWS by Channy Yun
During this past AWS re:Invent, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy shared valuable lessons learned from Amazonās own experience developing nearly 1,000 generative AI applications across the company.
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About the Author
Jeremy is the Director of Research at CloudZero, founder of Ampt, and an AWS Serverless Hero that has a soft spot for helping people solve problems using the cloud. You
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