Lambda in scale of billions 🚀☁️ #75
Inferless, Fermyon,and Redpanda see dawn while Fauna sees dusk
In the previous issue, Happy 19th Amazon S3 🚀☁️ #74 we celebrated the 19-year run of S3 and reflected on its growth from a simple object storage to a power house for analytics today.
Lambda function stands as a backbone to many applications and workloads today, and yes it handles trillions of invocations with millions of customers using it. The AWS team (Anton Aleksandrov, Rajesh Kumar Pandey, and Chris McPeek) has published the best practices for handling billions of invocations. And, importantly how observability plays a pivotal role in async invocations.
Serverless today has outgrown, and the adoption in enterprises is a clear testament to what it brings in the future! The companies and DevTools with Serverless are also growing. Serverless in conjunction with ML has been the talk of the town! With that great to see companies like Inferless, Redpanda, and Fermyon innovating in this space.
⭐ Pick of the month
This month’s Pick is “Amazon S3“.
Jones Zachariah Noel N (author) shares Amazon S3 is more than storage and brings in a lot for the analytics ecosystem from the updates from re:Invent and the popularity of S3.
🚀 AWSome content to learn from
Jorge Contreras writes about AWS Lambda Performance turning to reduce Cold Starts by diving into how Lambda Power Tuning Tool can help optimize for the right memory and CPU along with lazy loading and Lambda warmers.
Luc van Donkersgoed’s blog The Serverless Trilemma: Cost, Performance, and Complexity takes into account the compute trinity (cost, performance, and reliability) and trade-offs with Serverless compared to traditional.
Modifying DynamoDB TTL with CDK by Ricardo Cino sheds light on TTL capability of DynamoDB with the possible errors when you try to leverage CDK for IaC and the limitations of modifying the TTL attribute for the table.
Nilesh Trivedi’s The Four Amigos of AWS: A Lighthearted Look at SNS, SQS, EventBridge, and MQ not only introduces the 4 messaging amigos of AWS but also talks about when would you choose the specific service along with cost.
Jeevan Dongre reflects on what is next in Serverless beyond the marketing-created buzz, as it’s the cornerstone today for most enterprises, and retrospecting from the panel discussion from ServerlessDays Bengaluru 2024.
Anna Pastushko’s newsletter on week 76 focuses on Lambda cache for Secrets Manager and Parameter Store which explains the working of it with the Parameters and Secrets Lambda layer and cache configuration.
Vadym Kazulkin writes about AWS Lambda Profiler Extension for Java (the first of the series) which introduces Lambda Profiler Extension and a walkthrough of a sample project with the Lambda layer.
If you are still thinking, How can I get into AWS serverless and its community? Marko has curated the getting started guide along with the best of the community! (The Serverless Terminal is also featured!).
⚒️ What's happening with Serverless tools, samples, and projects
Matthieu Napoli has published Berf cloud.
Subbusainath Rengasamy has built dyndbclient.
Vidit Shah publishes s3-react-video-streaming.
Inferless (Serverless GPU) is now live on Product Hunt.
Fauna is ending service on May 30th, 2025.
Fermyon Wasm Functions on Akamai
🎙️ Podcasts, videos and live-streams
On Talking Serverless, Paul Chin Jr and Anton Babenko dive into Serverless.tf (Open Source Serverless Terraform).
On AWS Bites, Eoin Shanaghy and Luciano Mammino share about Step Functions with JSONata and Variables.
On Serverless Office Hours, Eric Johnson joins Michael Gasch to talk about Step Functions and EventBridge integration with private endpoints.
On The Zacs’ Show Talking AWS, Arshad Zackeriya and Jones Zachariah Noel N talk about Step Functions in VS Code experience with JSONata and Variables.
🗓️ Mark your calendars
Serverless Guru is hosting the Serverless EDA Hackathon from April 25th to May 18th, 2025.
ServerlessDays Belfast happening on May 15th, 2025.
AWS Community Days are happening -
ACD Italy on April 2nd, 2025.
ACD Bay Aera Security Edition on April 4th, 2025.
ACD Kolkata on April 5th, 2025.
ACD Romania on April 10th, 2025.
ACD Türkiye on April 19th, 2025.
ACD Bengaluru on May 23rd, 2025.
ACD Midwest on June 5th, 2025. (CFPs open until April 16th, 2025)
ACD Australia on August 15th, 2025.
ACD Adria on September 5th, 2025.
ACD DACH on October 7th, 2025. (CFPs open until June 8th, 2025)
AWS Community Summit is happening on September 25th, 2025. (CFPs open until July 1st, 2025)
New Relic Now is happening across 17 cities globally, join one at your nearest location.
📢 What's new in Serverless
Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) SDK for JavaScript version 3 and Go version 2 are now available.
Amazon DynamoDB Streams APIs now support AWS PrivateLink.
Firewall support for AWS Amplify hosted sites.
DeepSeek-R1 now available as a fully managed serverless model in Amazon Bedrock
👨💻 Word from the author
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