Top Links from Issue #98

This issue was published on July 14, 2020

More serverless CDK Patterns for you to explore... 🕵️‍♀️

In this issue, we get more CDK patterns to explore, yet another reason to look at BigQuery, and some updated serverless best practices. Read the full issue...

Most Popular Links

Below are the most popular links from Issue #98 as chosen by our Off-by-none email subscribers. Sign up for the newsletter and help choose the most popular links each week!

CDK Patterns at 20! Let's Walk Through all 20 Serverless Patterns for AWS
There are now 20 fully deployable serverless architecture patterns at cdkpatterns.com, all built with AWS CDK TypeScript/Python and all including the vanilla CloudFormation Template.

Are Lambda-to-Lambda calls really so bad?
You can become a serverless blackbelt. Enrol to my 4-week online workshop Production-Ready Serverless and gain hands-on experience building something from scratch using serverless technologies.

How We Automatically Create And Delete Environments For Developers by Gavin Cornwell
During the development cycle a developer will always, at some point, need to deploy the system they are working on so why not create an environment as soon as the feature branch is created and delete the environment when the branch is removed?

How I built a zero cost serverless scraper
I started working on a data science project with a friend, where we wanted to understand the sentiments of people about a few topics over a period of time. Naturally, the first part of building a project like this involves scraping data from the web.

AWS Serverless Application Lens — A Summary by Amulya Rattan Bhatia
The whitepaper on AWS Serverless Application Lens is a treasure trove of information on how to correctly design a serverless application on AWS. However, if you are short on time and want a gist of the whitepaper, this article aims to provide that for you.

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.

Google Cloud announces BigQuery Omni multicloud analytics solution by Macy Bayern
The platform allows users to directly access data across Google Cloud, AWS and Azure without having to move or copy datasets. Google Cloud unveiled BigQuery Omni during its virtual Google Cloud Next '20 event on Tuesday.

How to design Serverless Apps like a Pro using *Interactive* Serverless Reference Architectures 🚀🔥 by Farrah
In order to solve tough software problems we often start with best practices for architectural patterns. Today, that means adopting a “serverless” approach that handles a lot of scalability and high availability concerns for you.

Lambda Execution Leaks: A Practical Guide by Dori Aviram
At Lumigo, we recently ran into some issues with a service we built on top of our Nodejs AWS Lambda handler. These issues were the result of lambda execution leaks from within our serverless code. In this article, I’ll explain about node.js lambda execution leaks and how to avoid them.

Want more serverless goodness?

Check out the full version of Issue #98 and sign up for the newsletter so you never miss great serverless content from the community. If you want to hear conversations with the top serverless experts, be sure to check out the Serverless Chats Podcast.

This Week's Sponsors

Check out all our amazing sponsors and find out how you can sponsor an issue.

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.

Nominate a Serverless Star

Off-by-none is committed to celebrating the diversity of the serverless community and recognizing the people who make it awesome. If you know of someone doing amazing things with serverless, please nominate them to be a Serverless Star ⭐️!