Top Links from Issue #331

This issue was published on July 1, 2025

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Most Popular Links

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Contra Ptacek's Terrible Article On AI — Ludicity by Thomas Ptacek. I
“I don’t recommend reading it, but you can if you want. It is full of half-baked ideas and shoddy reasoning.”1 I have tried hard, so very hard, not to just be the guy that hates AI, even though the only thing that people want to talk to me about is the one time I ranted about AI at length.

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Containers are available in public beta for simple, global, and programmable compute
We’re excited to announce that Cloudflare Containers are now available in beta for all users on paid plans. You can now run new kinds of applications alongside your Workers.

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AWS Lambda now supports SnapStart for Python and .NET functions in 23 additional regions
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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Express.js developers can now add authorization in minutes with Amazon Verified Permissions
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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Amazon CloudFront streamlines CDN setup with smart defaults and automation
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.

Building serverless event streaming applications with Amazon MSK and AWS Lambda by Tarun Rai Madan
As organizations build modern applications with event-driven architectures (EDA), they often seek solutions that minimize infrastructure management overhead while maximizing developer productivity.

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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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