Yes, Serverless is mature and still growing🚀☁️ #60
AWS Lambda, Step Functions and EventBridge continue to innovate amidst GenAI noise
In the previous issue, Did Serverless go quiet?🚀☁️ #59 peaks into what’s happening with Serverless and overhyped GenAI. And wrapping up July with some Amazon Cognito spotlight.
In this issue, we will look at Serverless is now mature and is continuing to grow in terms of capabilities by Cloud Providers and also with adaption. As an AWS Hero, last week was exciting to hear that AWS Services - AWS Lambda, AWS Step Functions, and Amazon EventBridge continue to innovate and solve real-world problems amidst AWS making a lot of noise on GenAI.
Jeevan Dongre pens down The Serverless Revolution Begins and also Paweł Zubkiewicz retrospect AWS Heroes Summit and how Serverless is still fore-front!
In other news, Cloud9, CodeCommit, and CloudSearch are being deprecated.
📢 What's new in Serverless
AWS Lambda now supports SnapStart for Java functions that use the ARM64 architecture
AWS Step Functions now supports Customer Managed Keys
CloudWatch RUM PutRumEvents API now supports data event logging in AWS CloudTrail
⭐ Pick of the month
This month’s Pick of the month is “Amazon Cognito“.
Martyn Kilbryde writes about Serverless security and Cognito misconfigurations which talks about the Cognito email address update security issue and how using user ID as an attribute over sub.
Jones Zachariah Noel’s (author) post about how and why modern apps are going with Cognito and as Cognito sends messages, how to customize the messages on Cognito.
🚀 AWSome content to learn from
Marco Troisi shares why you should build your next product with AppSync and how GraphQL and AppSync help build the MVP to transition into an enterprise-grade application later.
Learn about using Lambda@Edge to password-protect your development and staging environments by Ike Gabriel Yuson with a rundown of the architecture with a Lambda@Edge code walkthrough.
Marcos Henrique’s blog Unlocking High Throughput with Amazon SQS FIFO Queues dives into the internals of SQS FIFO and how you can achieve high throughput by referring to partitions.
Gregor Hohpe with a car analogy takes a dig into AWS Lambda if it’s a Halo product by addressing the cool tech, how Serverless has been abstracting the cloud, and the economics of Lambda functions.
Bruno Gatete writes a guide to building HTTP APIs with API Gateway that gives an overview of API types and how to set API Gateway with routes to trigger Lambda functions.
Uriel Bitton gives a walkthrough of building a Serverless photo gallery with architecture and how to implement to deploy an S3 bucket with CloudFront distribution and Lambda functions.
Igor Zinkovsky and Andy Jiang author a blog benchmarking AWS Lambda Cold Starts across JavaScript Runtimes that sheds light on Cold Starts with Express, Fastify, and Hono also revealing Deno has had the fastest cold start times with the factors that account for it.
Jones Zachariah Noel’s (author) shares about Streaming Responses via AWS Lambda which dives into the innovation pattern of Streaming Responses and understanding the benefits and limitations.
⚒️ What's happening with Serverless tools and projects
David Boyne has published EventCatalog SDK.
Scott Piper has put together AWS breaking changes with the deprecation notices for different Services.
🎙️ Podcasts, videos and live-streams
On BelieveInServerless, James Eastham hosts AWS Serverless Heroes of India lightening talk with Prashanth HN, Dhaval Nagar, Jones Zachariah Noel, and Srushith R. And Hashnode's journey into its public GraphQL API with Sandro
James Eastham goes on to build a Serverless Pizza Restaurant with Serverless + Java + Momento.
Serverless State of Union on AWS Developers Podcast with Holly Mesrobian and Julian Wood.
Luciano Mammino and Eoin Shanaghy on AWS Bites talk about Rust and Lambda book by Luciano.
Rohini Gaonkar and Darko Mesaroš on Build on Weekly with Danielle Heberling talk about Step Functions for weather reporting.
Yan Cui talks with David Behroozi about Cognito and secret to succeeding at AWS.
🗓️ Mark your calendars
Agile and Scalable APIs with AWS Serverless by AWS UG Paraguay on August 2nd, 2024.
AWS Serverless Meetup by AWS UG Mumbai on August 3rd, 2024.
ServerlessDays are happening -
ServerlessDays Bengaluru on August 31st, 2024.
ServerlessDays Lima on September 20th, 2024.
ServerlessDays Tokyo on September 21st and 22nd, 2024 (CFPs are open).
ServerlessDays Cardiff on October 10th, 2024.
ServerlessDays Sao Paulo on October 19th, 2024 (CFPs are open).
AWS Community Days happening -
ACD Pune on August 3rd, 2024.
ACD Aotearoa on August 15th, 2024.
ACD DACH on September 17th, 2024.
ACD Italy on September 27th, 2024.
JAWS 24 hours of AWS on August 24-15th, 2025.
ACD Adria on October 18th, 2024 (CFPs are open)
PulumiUp - Cloud and IaC conference happening virtually on September 18th, 2024.
👨💻 Word from the author
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