Top Links from Issue #94

This issue was published on June 16, 2020

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Most Popular Links

Below are the most popular links from Issue #94 as chosen by our Off-by-none email subscribers. Sign up for the newsletter and help choose the most popular links each week!

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Structuring Serverless Projects by Nick Holbrook
One of the first problems I often run into when learning a new framework is learning the existing conventions and code patterns on how to structure your project.

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Planning on using AWS Step Functions? Think again
You’re using AWS and your entire or part of your landscape depends on it. You’re contemplating AWS Step Functions for a workflow you need to build or maybe you’re just curious and just want to explore this product.

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Building well-architected serverless applications: Approaching application lifecycle management – part 1
This series of blog posts uses the AWS Well-Architected Tool with the Serverless Lens to help customers build and operate applications using best practices. In each post, I address the nine serverless-specific questions identified by the Serverless Lens along with the recommended best practices.

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What you need to know to build a serverless communication system by Garrett Vargas
As part of our product, LegUp communicates with families and day care providers. Automating this workflow is an important part of our ability to scale. As a scrappy startup, we wanted a solution that allows us to build something scalable at an affordable price.

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Want To Contribute To An Upcoming Book? by Jennifer Pollock
O’Reilly Media is currently looking for people to contribute their thoughts for inclusion in a forthcoming book called 97 Things Every Cloud Engineer Should Know.

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.

It's The End Of Infrastructure-As-A-Service As We Know It: Here's What's Next by Forbes Editors' Picks
Senior Vice President, GM AWS Services at Onica. A decade ago, running virtual machines (VMs) in the cloud was state-of-the-art.

Recreational Programming with Serverless by Mathias Lafeldt
This article is a slightly edited version of the presentation I gave at the AWS Community Day 2019 in Hamburg, Germany. You can find the original slides here. There’s no recording available, so you have to take my word that the following actually happened.

Real-time Thumbnail Generation in a (mostly) Serverless AWS Architecture by Luca Tiozzo
In a normal web page, images are about 45% of the weight of the entire page (Source: https://httparchive.org/reports/page-weight), and most of the images we see on a web page are thumbnails.

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About the Author

Jeremy is the CEO and Founder of Ampt and an AWS Serverless Hero that has a soft spot for helping people solve problems using serverless. He frequently consults with companies and developers transitioning away from the traditional “server-full” approach. You can find him ranting about serverless on Twitter, in several forums and Slack groups, hosting the Serverless Chats podcast, and at conferences around the world.

 

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