Recursive loops in AWS Lambda fns 🚀☁️ - Issue #35
Lambda can now detect and stop recursive loops in Lambda functions
AWS Lambda's ability to detect and stop recursive loops is a huge win in terms of Lambda executions and cost incurred.
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.
📢 What's new in AWS Serverless
AWS Amplify Hosting announces support for monorepo frameworks.
AWS Lambda simplifies copying environment variables in the console code editor.
Amazon CloudWatch now supports dashboard variables.
AWS App Runner adds support to update and rebuild a failed service.
Amazon DynamoDB now simplifies and lowers the cost of handling failed conditional writes.
Announcing DynamoDB local version 2.0
Introducing the AWS .NET Distributed Cache Provider for DynamoDB.
AWS CodeBuild now supports GitHub Actions.
AWS Lambda now detects and stops recursive loops in Lambda functions
🚀 AWSome content to learn from
When working with DynamoDB data, marshall and unmarshalling is part of the job, Abhishek Gupta explains how to handle Go Lang type conversions DynamoDB SDK.
Real-time notifications on the client side? Tris Duong explains in his tutorial with Amazon EventBridge and AWS AppSync and also states the best practices with EventBridge and AppSync.
Knowing about the service pricing is important, Sandro Volpicella breaks down EventBridge pricing with different features such as Event Bus, Pipes, and Scheduler.
Dixit R Jain writes about pro tips for debugging AWS CDK applications with some common errors and how to debug and fix them.
Building custom SAM templates by Andres Moreno explains how easy it is to build custom templates and use them in sam init.
Benjamen Pyle shares his serverless wisdom about data and design approaches while building AWS Serverless applications. And each of the services with the lens of security and connectivity.
Manoj Fernando deeps dive into AWS Lambda monitoring and break down for synchronous, asynchronous, and event source mapping debugging with different metrics from Lambda executions.
Lambda functions perform proactive initialization, AJ Stuyvenberg dives deeps to understand proactive initialization and how it works with Lambda runtimes - NodeJS and Python.
Learn about Serverless and event-driven design thinking by Jimmy Dahlqvist with different design practices and patterns.
Matt Martz explains how to generate Bluesky feed with a serverless solution with AWS CDK which uses Bluesky’s feed generator.
⚒️ What's happening with AWS Serverless tools and Open Source projects
Sam Ward Biddle has published IAC DevTools CLI for AWS CDK.
Lars Jacobsson has published samp-cli.
🗓️ Mark your calendars
Melbourne Serverless Meetup on July 20th, 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 Cape Town 2023 on October 20th, 2023.
AWS Community Days happening -
ACD Malaysia on July 22nd, 2023.
ACD Philippines on July 29th and 30th, 2023.
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 “AWS Amplify“.
Johannes Koch explains Amplify SDK for Flutter from the developer experience and also how AWS infrastructure could be built with Flutter.
Julia Furst Morgado has automated cross-posting of the blogs on her Amplify Hugo website, which uses Amplify CI/CD and the serverless automation solution to post the blog on different platforms.
Jones Zachariah Noel (author) has published a series of blogs about AWS Amplify and the different categories offered by Amplify.
Participate in AWS Amplify Hackathon and stand a chance to be featured in this section.
👨💻 Word from the author
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Until next time, happy building on Serverless!