Top Links from Issue #323

This issue was published on April 8, 2025

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Most Popular Links

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Why Single Function Lambdas is a terrible choice for Serverless development.
Single function lambdas for every endpoint is really bad on every possible front, be it developer experience, debugging experience, deployment efficiency, cost or performance.

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Cloudflare Workflows is now GA: production-ready durable execution
Betas are useful for feedback and iteration, but at the end of the day, not everyone is willing to be a guinea pig or can tolerate the occasional sharp edge that comes along with beta software.

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Amazon SES now offers attachments in sending APIs
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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Your frontend, backend, and database — now in one Cloudflare Worker
In September 2024, we introduced beta support for hosting, storing, and serving static assets for free on Cloudflare Workers — something that was previously only possible on Cloudflare Pages.

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"Just use Vite”… with the Workers runtime
Today, we are announcing the 1.0 release of the Cloudflare Vite plugin, as well as official support for React Router v7! Over the past few years, Vite’s meteoric rise has seen it become one of the most popular build tools for web development, with a large ecosystem and vibrant community.

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.

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Amazon Bedrock announces general availability of prompt caching
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Amazon RDS Proxy announces caching_sha2_password authentication support for MySQL on Aurora and RDS

Amazon Data Firehose to S3 Tables Caution
We love building things at Cloud Dialogues. What we love even more is trying the new goodies that our Cloud provider overlords release that normally should make our lives a little bit easier. Remember - they do all the heavy lifting for us!

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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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