Top Links from Issue #97
This issue was published on July 7, 2020
Serverless Reference Architectures for the Rest of Us... 👩🏫
In this issue, we announce a new way to explore serverless architectures, learn how to debug and load test our apps, and get "connection pools" from Lambda. Read the full issue...
Most Popular Links
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Announcing the Serverless Reference Architectures Project by Jeremy Daly.
Serverless gives us the power to focus on delivering value to our customers without worrying about the maintenance and operations of the underlying compute resources.
Production-Ready Serverless is back (with improved curriculum)!
My 4-week Production-Ready Serverless workshop is back! With an improved and more comprehensive curriculum based on student feedback from the last run in May, when over 50 students from around the world took part.
How to Debug AWS Lambda Performance Issues by Yan Cui
Ten years ago, Amazon found that every 100ms of latency would cost them roughly 1% in sales.
Serverless-Side Rendering With Lambda at Edge
A flagship offering of Label Insight’s tech services is our LabelSync product. LabelSync customers expect their SmartLabel landing pages to be performant, globally available, and resilient to failure.
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.
My Time as a Black Woman Software Engineer at Capital One by Sailor Ghoul ?✨
Trigger Warning: Mention of depression, anxiety, PTSD, and suicidal thoughts. Being a Black woman in technology, despite the immense amount of privilege that we have with our skill set and our compensation for said skill set, is hard, but I would like to think I have persevered despite the odds.
You're not ready for feature flags by Forrest Brazeal
Wiley is about to release my cartoon-filled first book, The Read Aloud Cloud — you can preorder it now! Years ago, I worked on a team getting ready to do our first migrations from the ol’ data center into AWS.
Send Emails Serverlessly With Node.js, Lambda, and AWS SES by Angad Singh
Sending emails to users is becoming an increasingly popular feature. Social media influencers are amassing their own email lists for future product sales and brands are doing the same to ensure they can stay in touch with their users and maintain brand awareness.
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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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