Top Links from Issue #96
This issue was published on June 30, 2020
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Introducing Vendia Share
Create a multi-party distributed app from a schema - no coding skills required. Leverage existing systems of record with ease. Scales when you need it, while transaction-based pricing ensures that when youâre not doing work, youâre not paying.
Managing backend requests and frontend notifications in serverless web apps by James Beswick
Web and mobile applications usually interact with a backend service, often via an API. Many front-end applications pass requests for processing, wait for a result, and then display this to the user.
Announcing Redis as a Code! Lambda Store Terraform Provider by Rafael Nunes
2 months ago we have launched first Serverless Redis and made announcement. After launching our product, we got incredibly huge interest and user feedback from different platforms. In hackernews, lambda store post was trend topic for a while.
Can Lambda and RDS Play Nicely Together? by aws
Even though AWS provides us with a fully serverless database, DynamoDB, it's not always the best possible choice. DynamoDB is a NoSQL database, which means that its ability to reflect complex data relationships is far from perfect, even though it can do so.
Applying the Well-Architected Framework, Small Edition
Do you ever tackle a problem and know that youâve just spent way too much time on it? But you also know that it was worth it? This post (which is also long!) sums up my recent experience with exactly that type of problem. I love learning and want to keep tabs on several key areas.
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.
Enterprise Serverless đ (Series) by Lee James Gilmore
Below is a list of the common pitfalls, lessons learned, things to consider, and useful nuggets of information based on architecting and managing developers over various large scale projects over recent years, which I hope technical leads, lead software developers and architects may find useful.
Lambda Cold Starts, why I donât see the problem by Gert Leenders
Quite often I hear people complain about Lambda cold starts. Frequently this results in hours of discussion and a time consuming quest for an answer. For me, Lambda cold starts are just a non-issue or at least they should be. Allow me to explain why that is. Context is everything.
6 Tips for Deploying AWS Serverless Node.js Applications to Production by Leroy Chan
Starting out on AWS Serverless might be really easy with all the tutorials and resources that are out there. You can easily create a RESTful API within a few minutes by deploying templates from AWS Serverless Application Repository (SAR).
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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 âserver-fullâ 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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