Top Links from Issue #320

This issue was published on March 18, 2025

Truly Serverless WebSockets? 👏

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Most Popular Links

Below are the most popular links from Issue #320 as chosen by our Off-by-none email subscribers. Sign up for the newsletter and help choose the most popular links each week!

AppSync Events adds publishing over WebSocket for real-time pub/sub
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Amazon RDS Proxy announces caching_sha2_password authentication support for MySQL on Aurora and RDS

Accelerate serverless development with ready-to-use Serverless Land Patterns in Visual Studio Code
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Amazon RDS Proxy announces caching_sha2_password authentication support for MySQL on Aurora and RDS

We don't need DynamoDB when we have Aurora Postgres
Aurora Postgres has many cool features. Let's compare them to DynamoDB and review them. While I'm writing this article, the latest version of Postgres - v17.4 Key-value and document data models - We don't need to talk about key-value. It is more interested in "how to store document data?".

Implementing Automated End-to-End Testing: Leveraging Your CI/CD with Your Cloud Development Kit (CDK) App
I recently embarked on a new project focused on our input management. I’m working for a German insurance broker that aims to modernize the handling of physical letters. Unfortunately, in the German insurance sector, we cannot utilize APIs or similar technical implementations.

Amazon S3 Tables add create and query table support in the S3 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

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.

Handling billions of invocations – best practices from AWS Lambda by Chris McPeek
AWS Lambda is a highly scalable and resilient serverless compute service. With over 1.5 million monthly active customers and tens of trillions of invocations processed, scalability and reliability are two of the most important service tenets.

A 10x Faster TypeScript
Today I’m excited to announce the next steps we’re taking to radically improve TypeScript performance. The core value proposition of TypeScript is an excellent developer experience.

Why Your Tech Stack is Overrated (And What Actually Matters)
In 2017, everyone - including yours truly - was passionately caught up debating the virtues of React Native versus going fully Native. I even penned a fiery rant about it here, convinced I'd cracked the code myself on app development.

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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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