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Lambda with Python 3.11πŸš€β˜οΈ - Issue #36

Python 3.11 runtime is now supported on AWS Lambda Functions

Jones Zachariah Noel N
Jul 30, 2023
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A new runtime version of Python is now available on Lambda functions along with some improved AWS Amplify categories and JSON protocol support in SQS.

In other news, AWS Amplify Hackathon 2023 (July 1st - 30th) is happening on Hashnode. Publish the blogs and the best ones get featured in ⭐ Pick of the month section during July newsletter issues.

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πŸ“’ What's new in AWS Serverless

AWS simplifies writing .NET 6 Lambda functions

AWS Lambda and Amazon EventBridge Pipes now support enhanced filtering

AWS Amplify JavaScript library enhances the performance of Auth, Storage, Notifications, and Analytics

AWS Lambda adds support for Python 3.11

Announcing preview of JSON protocol support for Amazon SQS


πŸš€ AWSome content to learn from

Lars Jacobsson introduces CDK support in SAMP CLI in the blog post that enables debugging Lambda functions both on AWS CDK and SAM taking a step further in development with local testing.

Ran Isenberg writes about SQS and how to handle SQS batching with AWS Powertools which is the first part that introduces ways it could be achieved with Lambda handler.

Learn about Serverless API development with TypeScript by Charles Allison which is the second part of the series that talks about DynamoDB and GSIs based data design.

Message in loops? Well, Pubudu Jayawardana writes about event bus to another event bus messaging on Amazon EventBridge which can get into a loop, and how Amazon EventBridge smartly rejects such events.

Collin Smith writes about how Serverless applications’ performance could be improved with CQRS (Command Query Responsibility Segregation) has increased scalability, performance, and security for applications that use Database operations.

Serverless live streaming image processing? Yes, you can build that with AWS CDK. Gwen Leigh explains in the blog how AWS CDK infrastructure can process images from S3.

Wisdom from Benjamen Pyle about handling events in Serverless applications with different messaging services such as SNS, SQS, EventBridge, and Kinesis which make Serverless applications decoupled, and also blog talks about building with them and being cautious about costs.

Handling retries in messaging services by Christian Bonzelet talks about messaging services and patterns where we have retries enabled with dead letter channels.


βš’οΈ What's happening with AWS Serverless tools and Open Source projects

Lakindu Hewawasam has built Serverless chatbot.

Ant Stanley has published create cdkts npm library.

Ran Isenberg has published AWS Lambda Handler Handbook.

AWS CDK v2.88.0 is out.

Berf 2.1.0 is out.


πŸ—“οΈ Mark your calendars

Serverless Meet-up by Serverless North-East happening on August 2nd, 2023.

AWS UG Coimbatore is hosting a virtual meet-up on August 5th, 2023.

AWS UG Delhi NCR is hosting a virtual meet-up on August 5th, 2023.

Serverless Meet-up Tokyo on August 24th, 2023.

Serverless London August meet-up on August 24th, 2023.

ServerlessDays are happening -

  • ServerlessDays Bengaluru 2023 on August 19th, 2023.

  • ServerlessDays Ahmedabad 2023 on September 9th, 2023.

  • ServerlessDays Cardiff 2023 on September 21st, 2023.

  • ServerlessDays Tokyo 2023 on September 24-25th, 2023.

  • ServerlessDays Cape Town 2023 on October 20th, 2023.

  • ServerlessDays Sao Paulo 2023 on October 21st, 2023.

AWS Community Days happening -

  • ACD Aotearoa on September 6th, 2023.

  • ACD DACH on September 14th, 2023.

  • ACD NL on September 20th, 2023.

  • ACD Spain on September 23rd, 2023

CDK Day 2023 is happening on September 29th, 2023 virtually.


⭐ Pick of the month

This month’s Pick of the month is β€œAWS Amplifyβ€œ.

Abdulrasaq Jamiu Adewuyi has published about building Fitness tracker app using AWS Amplify and Amplify Studio.

Saugat Tiwari writes about Amplify hosting and how to use different features to host a portfolio application.

Faruk Ada has started a series about AWS Amplify on the YouTube channel.

Jones Zachariah Noel (author) has published a series of blogs about AWS Amplify and the different categories offered by Amplify.


πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’» Word from the author

Thanks for the great response to my previous newsletter issues and blog posts. I’m traveling this week and have been at AWS Community Day Philippines which was also their 10th anniversary, great time speaking about EventBridge and also a Serverless GameDay was hosted here!

I’m open to feedback, so feel free to DM me on Twitter or LinkedIn for any queries about AWS or Serverless.

Stay tuned and share with Serverless enthusiasts.

Until next time, happy building on Serverless!

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