Lambda functions and Step Functions powered up โ๏ธ๐๐จโ๐ป - Issue #10
Serverless applications with Lambda functions, the popular runtime of NodeJS now gets an upgrade to NodeJS 16.x runtime and also AWS Step Functions announces an enhanced observability with state machine executions
AWS Announcements
Amazon RDS is the best option for database hosting, now RDS has performance insights which allows metrics for any time frame.
AWS SAM CLI now supports enabling X-Ray tracing across all Lambda functions in your Serverless applications.
Debugging on AWS Step Functions and enabling a enhanced observability for your state machine executions are available.
AWS Amplify Android library is now redesigned to support Kotlin which is available in developer preview.
AWS Lambda functions now supports NodeJS 16 as one of the runtimes.
Canary resource management is made easy with Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics adds support for canary resources deletion when a canary is deleted.
Interesting content
Allen Helton introduces to a new type of architectural pattern in his blog post. And he also writes a blog-post about when AWS Step Functions are not to be used in your Serverless architecture.
When working with AWS AppSync, VTL has always been a tough game for most developers so Michael Liendo writes a blog-post which guides Front-end developers about VTL.
Lee James Gilmore writes about Serverless Custom Resource with CDK. He also addresses the concern of security threats with Serverless apps and explains about how we can address these threats with security modelling in his 2nd part blog post. Lee in collaboration with Marek ล ottl to get the 3rd blog-post which talks about Lambda injections and Black IaC.
Pubudu Jayawardana explains how leave management apps can be built with Serverless tech stack using CDK as a choice for Infrastructure as Code.
Rekhu Chinnarathod in his video tutorial explains about ETL at private Infrastructure, Load data from AWS S3 bucket to Amazon RDS Aurora PostgreSQL Serverless v2 which is VPC using AWS Lambda dynamically.
Ran Isenberg is back with his Lambda Cookbook series which talks about feature flags and configuration best practices.
Pawel Zubkiewicz demonstrates how we can build a Serverless scheduler.
Maurice Borgmeier builds out a guide for Python developers to get started with Go and also how to put a database to sleep with AWS Lambda functions.
Daniele Frasca puts forth a getting started guide for first time Serverless developers.
Luciano Mammino and Eoin Shanaghy in their podcast "What's new for JavaScript developers on AWS" explains about AWS Lambda functions with NodeJS 16 runtime and also about everything JS developers should know with respect to AWS.
Luc van Donkersgoed in the session hosted by vBrownBag talks about Build Cloud-Native Apps with Serverless Integration Testing
Dashbird.io has published a new blog post about 5 common issues with SQS.
What to expect from Serverless tools?
Benoรฎt Bourรฉ has been working on an enhanced AppSync plugin V2 on Serverless Framework.
AWS Lambda events has been updated with Function URLs by Michael Brewer.
Luciano Mammino has come up with Middy a NodeJS middleware framework for AWS Lambda.
AWS SAM CLI also now supports Lambda functions with NodeJS 16 runtime.
Mark your calendars
A lot of AWS Summit events are happening globally at various places, more details availableย here. Most of the AWS Community Builders and Heros are part of it as speakers.
Serverless Guru is hosting SLS Day on May 17th which is jam packed with interesting sessions and demos.
AWS UG Mumbai, Nasik, Pune in a collaboration are launching a Serverless Bootcamp starting from May 22nd to June end featuring Aishwarya Gupta, Jones Zachariah Noel, Anurag Kale, Srushith Repakula.
Word from the author
May is all about the saying "May the force be with you!", this month has been exciting with global AWS Summits happening and I'm excited to announce that I'm sharing the speaker deck along with great minds of AWS, AWS Community Builder and AWS Heros.
Serverless apps are often understood as hard to maintain as there is no common infrastructure repository that is available, so I've authored a blog post which explains the why Serverless apps should be developed with Infrastructure as Code as the center of it.
And until next time, register for AWS Summits happening globally and up-skill with a lot of sessions and demos.
Happy building on AWS! GO Serverless!