Share your lessons: Listen to the Heroes 🚀☁️ #68
DSQL and S3 Tables make a debut at reInvent 2024
In the previous issue, A decade of Serverless, Lambda and ECS🚀☁️ #67 we celebrated 10 years for Lambda and ECS.
Werner shared about architecting for simplicity and debunked S3 and DSQL with the lessons of building for Simplixity and not to ignore the signs of warning. Additionally, Werner gave a shoutout to Heroes and their contribution and calling out that folks should Listen to the Heroes to understand the in and out of AWS and AWS Services.
Check out - Listen to Heroes to see what the Heroes are talking about.
⭐ Pick of the month
This month’s Pick is “AWS Lambda Functions“.
Sabarish Sathasivan writes about secrets management in .NET based Lambda functions exploring the options with the SDK based approach and Secrets Manager Lambda extension.
Jones Zachariah Noel (author) has published about different features and hacks of Lambda - Lambda performance, Streaming responses, Lambda event filtering, Lambda Function URL and the list goes on….
🚀 AWSome content to learn from
Yan Cui reflects on the Serverless announcements from re:Invent 2024 along with the lessons Werner shares about Simplexity, DSLQ, S3 Tables and Metadata and other updates.
Franck Pachot’s blog DynamoDB style limits for predictable SQL performance which compares the Aurora DSQL to DynamoDB not only with technology PoV but from Developer Experience PoV.
Brian Rinaldi introduces how Step Functions and LocalStack brings the best for building State Machines that use JSONata and variables making it easier to query and work with data with each task.
Stephen Sennett digs into does scale to zero define Aurora’s ‘Serverlessness’? with diving into the scenarios when Aurora is still in use and the case of cold starts.
Benjamen Pyle shares his first impression of AWS DSQL with Lambda and Rust that captures DSQL performance and latency with read and write along with some things that are missing.
⚒️ What's happening with Serverless tools and projects
Lars Jacobsson has published JSONPath to JSONata ASL.
Michael Walmsley has come up with build in public project - Effe - Event hub for Front-end.
Kenta Goto has built cls3, a tool to S3 bucket clean up.
🎙️ Podcasts, videos and live-streams
Julian Wood and Ran Isenberg’s re:Invent session - Best practices for Serverless developers.
Amrith Kumar and Joseph Idziorek’s re:Invent session - An insider’s look into architecture choices of Amazon DynamoDB.
Uriel Bitton debunks How TTL saves you money in DynamoDB.
Is Restate.dev the Step Functions killer? Featuring Jack Kleeman and Yan Cui.
Eoin Shanaghy and Luciano Mammino on AWS Bytes talk about Serverless is making a comeback when you least expect it.
🗓️ Mark your calendars
ServerlessDays are happening -
ServerlessDays Manchester on February 20th, 2024.
AWS Community Day Romania is happening on April 10th, 2025.
📢 What's new in Serverless
Amazon DynamoDB announces support for FIPS 140-3 interface VPC and Streams endpoints
Announcing Amazon S3 Tables – Fully managed Apache Iceberg tables optimized for analytics workloads
Announcing Amazon S3 Metadata (Preview) – Easiest and fastest way to manage your metadata
Announcing Amazon Aurora DSQL (Preview)
Amazon DynamoDB global tables previews multi-Region strong consistency
AWS Lambda announces Provisioned Mode for Kafka event source mappings (ESMs)
Announcing new Amazon CloudWatch Metrics for AWS Lambda Event Source Mappings (ESMs)
AWS Lambda adds support for Node.js 22
Amazon S3 adds new default data integrity protections
Storage Browser for Amazon S3 is now generally available
👨💻 Word from the author
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