Revolving around Lambda Functions☁️🚀👨‍💻 - Issue #11

AWS Lambda functions has been a great choice of Serverless compute on AWS. In this issue, we look into some brilliant content around Lambda functions and also Serverless containers

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AWS Announcements

Amazon CloudWatch announces improved console experience.

Amazon QuickSight dashboards are now embeddable into public applications and websites.

AWS AppSync introduces new simplified console experience to deploy generic real-time Pub/Sub APIs.

Interesting content

Jaymit Bhoraniya shares about how to run Serverless containers with AWS Fargate and Amazon EKS. And with a YouTube tutorial Jaymit provides a walk-through about how to implement and deploy Serverless APIs using AWS CDK. And also about how to secure your APIs with Amazon Cognito User Pools.

Jimmy Dahlqvist writes about Lambda Functions URLs which describes about certain security concerns and configurations.

Rekhu Chinnarathod in his YouTube tutorial explains about how we can use dynamic parallel processing using AWS Lambda functions and AWS Step Functions.

Aishwarya Gupta speaks about Serverless giving an overview about Fargate, SAM and Step Functions.

Sam Williams explains about Amazon DynamoDB Streams to Lambda function with a demo with TypeScript and Serverless NodeJS in under 10 mins.

Sheen Brisals shares his experience with archive and replay of events on Amazon EventBridge.

Allen Helton writes a blog-post about optimising your Serverless applications and its more than just tuning your Lambda Function configurations.

Maurice Borgmeier also talks about DynamoDB streams and shares a Python script for near real-time DynamoDB Streams.

CDK day happened on May 26th with recordings available in Track 1, Track 2, Track 3.

Mehmet Ozkaya in his blog-post explains about best practices with AWS Lambda functions and event driven architecture.

Marcia Villalba demonstrates Lambda functions with TypeScript in her YouTube video.

What to expect from Serverless tools?

Lars Jacobsson builds a tool sfn-cli which helps you build AWS Step Functions ASL from command line.

Mark your calendars

Serverless Chats Podcast @ServerlessChats

On the next episode, Jeremy & Rebecca chat with Lee Gilmore (@LeeJamesGilmore) about the complexities of productionizing #serverless apps, what is Serverless Tactical DD(R), why threat modeling is so important, how to think about your architecture layers, and so much more!

AWS User Group Mumbai 🇮🇳 @awsugmum

We are excited to announce our second session as part of Serverless, No server, Really? series, "Building APIs with AWS AppSync" by Jones Zachariah Noel N, Senior Developer Advocate at Freshworks. Date - 12th June, Sunday Time - 10:00 AM IST Link - youtu.be/sEJWCagJahU

Word from the author

I'm grateful to all of you who are actively following my newsletter and also re-sharing it in your connections. I'm happy with the feedback I've got about my session at AWS Summit India. If any of you have not watched it, all sessions of AWS Summit India are available on demand.

Do tune into my next session Building APIs with AppSync on June 12th 10am IST.

Until next time, happy building on AWS. Go Serverless!!