Top Links from Issue #315

This issue was published on February 11, 2025

A Serverless Container Framework ⚡️

In this issue, AWS lets you refactor your CloudFormation Stacks, we get EventCatalog Cloud, and Serverless launches a new Container Framework. Read the full issue...

Most Popular Links

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Supercharge Your AWS Lambda Development Workflow
Over the years, I've worked on numerous projects. Each was unique, but they all shared a common need: standards. A way to organize code, maintain quality, and make development smoother for everyone involved. Years have passed, and those standards evolved into something I'm proud to share.

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Reshape your AWS CloudFormation stacks seamlessly with stack refactoring
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Amazon RDS Proxy announces caching_sha2_password authentication support for MySQL on Aurora and RDS

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Sidecar Pattern In Serverless Design
Observability becomes significantly more challenging when transitioning to distributed systems, particularly in Serverless architectures. While serverless design is beneficial for decomposition and scalability, its granular nature imposes challenges for observability.

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Introducing EventCatalog Cloud and Plugin Licensing
EventCatalog has been another great month for EventCatalog with almost 2k stars on GitHub, and 1000 Discord members. Our project continues to grow about 10/15% every month in usage. We are happy to share our first initial release of EventCatalog Cloud.

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What's next with the Serverless Framework in 2025?
Recent events surrounding the Serverless Framework have ignited a heated discussion within the user community. As shown in the attached image, the CEO of Serverless Inc.

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.

Event-Driven Architecture - Image Analysis by Neil Clark
Welcome Back!! We are spoiled with the available services across AWS and most of them we can play with for free or for a limited cost if you are willing to invest some money.

AWS Step Functions expands data source and output options for Distributed Map
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Amazon RDS Proxy announces caching_sha2_password authentication support for MySQL on Aurora and RDS

Simplifying Serverless Workflows with EventBridge Pipes
Introduction Event-driven architectures (EDAs) are essential when creating scalable, decoupled systems. By allowing services to communicate asynchronously, they reduce bottlenecks and enable flexible scaling.

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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 can find him ranting about serverless and cloud on Bluesky, LinkedIn, X, the Serverless Chats podcast, and at conferences around the world.

 

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