Top Links from Issue #316

This issue was published on February 18, 2025

Is the Serverless hype over? 🤨

In this issue, Lambda adds APMs for Java and .NET, YouTube turns 20, and AI takes more support jobs. Read the full issue...

Most Popular Links

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The Serverless Hype Is Over. Now What? by Kostis Kapelonis
Serverless computing has been hyped as the ultimate solution to scalability and elasticity, but many who adopted it were quickly disappointed by rising costs and maintenance difficulty. There may be no servers, but we still need a major effort to deploy and test workloads.

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Optimizing Amazon CloudWatch Costs for High-Traffic Lambda Functions with Advanced Logging Controls
Are you happy with your CloudWatch bill? If you have one or more high-traffic Lambda functions, you pay for their duration and number of requests per month. However, there is a chance these functions are also increasing your CloudWatch costs - and this is why you need Advanced Logging Controls.

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Introducing EventCatalog Directory
EventCatalog 2.20.2 is now available. This release introduces the EventCatalog Directory, a new way to find users and teams using EventCatalog. When event-driven architectures get to a certain size it becomes difficult to know who owns a service, event, query or command.

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Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, releases its latest flagship model, Grok 3
Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, released its latest flagship AI model, Grok 3, late Monday night, along with new capabilities in the Grok app for iOS and the web.

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Do you need P? Systems Correctness Practices at AWS
Recently, I came across an AWS paper titled “Systems Correctness Practices at AWS” by Marc Brooker and Ankush Desai, which you can find linked below. Would it change my workflow, and what do I think about them?

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.

🔥 Future-Proofing our Serverless API skeleton: upgrading to Node.js 22 on AWS Lambda
In this article, we modernized our serverless API skeleton by updating dependencies and switching from the Serverless Framework to the Open Source Serverless Framework fork. We also upgraded to Node.js 22.x on AWS Lambda, enhancing performance and future-proofing our stack.

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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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