Serverless Containers Framework makes a debut 🚀☁️ #72
AppSync with a bunch of other updates
In the previous issue, Application Integration and EDA Improvements 🚀☁️ #71 had a close look into SNS and EventBridge updates in the last few weeks.
In this issue, looking into the new update from Serverless Inc - Serverless Container Framework, which brings in a DevX and DeploymentX for containers to AWS Lambda or Fargate with ECS.
⭐ Pick of the month
This month’s Pick is “Amazon EventBridge“.
Ayman Aly Mahmoud’s blog Simplifying Serverless Workflows with EventBridge Pipes gives a guided walkthrough of Pipes, the components of Pipes with a comparison with SNS and SQS.
Jones Zachariah Noel N (author) shares why Amazon EventBridge is the missing piece to your app in the EDA world with the offering of Buses, Pipes, and Schedulers.
🚀 AWSome content to learn from
Rehan van der Merwe shares how CDK Constructs helps in connecting AWS Lambda to the Tailscale network with Tailscale Lambda Extension and Proxy CDK Constructs.
Understand how the Sidecar pattern in Serverless by Omid Eidivandi blog that can be leveraged with Lambda and Fargate and how to log aggregation and decoupling are critical and non-critical processes with isolation.
Kenta Goto dives into how to easily delete Amazon S3 Tables with the multiple types of buckets today, how the components of Tables make it complicated, and how the cls3 tool helps.
Volodymyr Marynychev shares a proof of concept of orchestrating AI: Dynamic LLM routing with AWS Step Functions being the core of it and how Lambda functions bridge it with Bedrock models.
Lorenzo Hidalgo Gadea writes about a URL shortener with custom analytics using API Gateway with Lambdas and re-directional rules along with using CloudWatch metrics.
Jordan González Bustamante brings in a guided walkthrough of web-scraping with AWS Lambda in Rust using AWS CDK and how Rust makes the solution more performant.
Step Functions, JSONata and Comments blog by Dave Hall gives a rundown of Comments with JSONata and how leveraging that for State Machine makes it easier to understand.
Ran Isenberg gives you the builder advice to stop using 5 Serverless architecture patterns and what the alternatives could be with the number of Serverless architectural patterns that exist today.
⚒️ What's happening with Serverless tools, samples, and projects
Serverless Inc. introduces Serverless Container Framework.
LLRT v0.5.0-beta is here now.
Darko Mesaros has published krtk.rs (A Serverless URL Shortener).
Gojko Adzic and Slobodan Stojanović have published Cognito Ergo Sum.
David Boyne has published a couple of updates on EventCatalog.
Serkan Özal, Tyler Benson, and the OpenTelemetry community have new versions of OTEL Lambda layers for NodeJS, Python, Java, Ruby, and collector published.
🎙️ Podcasts, videos and live-streams
On vBrownBag with Chris Williams, Ervin Szilágyi joins to talk about BlueSky Bot with AWS Lambda and Terraform.
On AWS Bites, Eoin Shanaghy and Luciano Mammino talk about Building Great APIs with Powertools.
Rahul Pulikkot Nath dives deep into when to use AWS Lambda SnapStart.
Rahul Kumar shares data-related updates from re:Invent ‘24.
On Day Two DevOps, Ned Bellavance and Kyler Middleton join Benjamen Pyle sharing about Serverless Goes Mainstream.
Maximilian Schellhorn and Dennis Kieselhorst talk about Serverless Java with Spring.
On Believe in Serverless, Andres Moreno takes on how far can I get in an hour with Serverless Framework?
🗓️ Mark your calendars
ServerlessDays Manchester happening on February 20th, 2024.
AWS User Group Bulgaria is hosting an AWS Lambda Performance & Cost Optimization meet-up on February 20th, 2024.
AWS UG Vadodara is hosting AWS EventBridge Workshop on February 22nd, 2025.
State of Serverless by ServerlessDays Denver on February 27th, 2024.
AWS Community Days are happening -
ACD Italy on April 2nd, 2025.
ACD Romania on April 10th, 2025.
ACD Türkiye on April 19th, 2025. (CFPs open until February 15th, 2025)
ACD Bengaluru on May 23rd, 2025. (CFPs open until February 20th, 2025)
ACD Adria on September 5th, 2025.
New Relic Now+ is happening virtually on February 25th, 2025 in AMER, EMEA, and APAC.
📢 What's new in Serverless
Amazon S3 Tables now support 10,000 tables per table bucket
Amazon S3 Tables add schema definition support to the CreateTable API
AWS AppSync releases CDK L2 constructs to simplify creating WebSocket APIs
AWS Step Functions expands data source and output options for Distributed Map
Amazon DynamoDB now supports auto-approval of quota adjustments
AWS AppSync GraphQL introduces operation-level caching for faster GraphQL API responses
AWS AppSync enhances resolver testing with comprehensive context object mocking
👨💻 Word from the author
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