Events from a bus got a new destination 🚀☁️ - Issue #47
EventBridge now support AppSync as a target
In the previous issue, Cognito is back in the game? - Issue #46 was about the new announcement from Amazon Cognito.
In this issue, we look at the announcement of EventBus being able to trigger AppSync making it easier to build applications that need heavy event-driven and also keeping it real-time. And let’s start our ride of 2024 to a better Serverless world.
The AWS Community Builder program is now open for applications.
📢 What's new in Serverless
Amazon Cognito identity pools enhances quota management in AWS Service Quotas
Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports account level subscription filter
Amazon EventBridge now supports AWS AppSync as a target of EventBridge Buses
AWS Lambda now supports SnapStart for Java functions in 5 additional regions
⭐ Pick of the month
This month’s Pick of the month is “AWS AppSync“.
Stefano Monti with a guided tutorial of deploying AppSync APIs with SAM part-1 which gives an overview of AppSync and how to define a GraphQL schema and in part-2, with the resolvers connected to DynamoDB where the resources of AppSync and DynamoDB managed with SAM.
Mohammed Izzy explains how to set AppSync subscriptions for out-of-band updates with Eventbridge pipes that talks about a use case where DynamoDB updates would need AppSync subscriptions but this is with EventBridge Pipes that enable DynamoDB Streams to trigger AppSync subscription possible.
Jones Zachariah Noel (author) talks about the improved Developer Experience of GraphQL APIs with JavaScript resolvers for AWS AppSync APIs and sheds light on how JavaScript resolvers play an important role in AppSync.
🚀 AWSome content to learn from
Qasim Albaqali talks about building resilient webhooks with AWS API Gateway and SQS integration which sheds light on the importance of SQS and how requests in an async world could be processed better with SQS and request body templates.
Vadym Kazulkin digs into the new AWS Lambda console experience of the single pane view of metrics, logs, and traces talking about the experience of better debugging with the elimination of multiple dashboard hopping.
This time, let’s read about the case for containers on Lambda by AJ Stuyvenberg which explains the pros and cons of using Containers on Lambda and also keeping an eye on the performance of Lambda.
Juan Jose Orjuela explains AWS Step Functions with parallel state and the different use cases where parallel state makes it the best fit. And also a dive into different states and the execution of a parallel state with best practices.
Learn about creating a hello world LLM with Bedrock and Serverless with SAM a guided tutorial from Ayyanar Jeyakrishnan that takes you through a journey to build an API with Lambda function and Bedrock.
Seth Orell shares why DynamoDB is still a first pick for Serverless with views that not only because it’s Serverless and managed by nature but also gives you the freedom to own data and architect based on different use-cases with scalability.
Avinash Dalvi gives you an overview of the Lambda Power Tuner tool in a short reel and how it helps you with cost-effective and performance-effective Lambda functions.
⚒️ What's happening with AWS Serverless tools
Rafal Wilinski has launched Chat with Cloud.
Tomas Mihalyi has built serverless-ops-review.
Tuan Anh has built py-event-ruler for EventBridge pattern testing.
Lorenzo Hidalgo Gadea has built serverless-gql-generator.
Momento launches Webhooks.
🎙️ Podcasts
Arshard Zackeriya and Jones Zachariah Noel (author) are back on The Zacs’ Show Talking AWS where they discuss about the reInvent ‘23 announcements of Amazon Q, Application Composer, and Step Functions.
🗓️ Mark your calendars
Serverless Boston is hosting a meet-up with Joe Emison on January 26th, 2024.
AWS UG Bengaluru is hosting January meet-up on January 27th, 2024.
ServerlessDays are happening -
ServerlessDays ANZ is happening in Sydney, AU (May 21st, 2024) and Auckland, NZ (May 24th, 2024).
ServerlessDays Milano is happening on June 13th, 2024.
AWS Community Days happening -
ACD Ahmedabad on January 20th, 2024
ACD Bengaluru on March 23rd, 2024
👨💻 Word from the author
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