Supabase and databases are on drumrolls! 🚀☁️ #61
Supabase has been on launch week and DAX in additional regions
In the previous issue, Yes, Serverless is mature and still growing🚀☁️ #60 looked into the updates from core Serverless services which is a sign that Serverless is mature and also continuing to grow even more.
In this issue, Supabase has been on a launch week with a ton of updates - Snapshot, Bring your own Auth and postgres.new and in other news, DAX is available in 2 additional EU regions. Data and data retrieval is getting better day by day.
📢 What's new in Serverless
Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) is now available in additional AWS Regions
⭐ Pick of the month
This month’s Pick of the month is “AWS AppSync JS resolvers“.
Seth Orell writes about testing AWS AppSunc JavaScript resolvers that iterates over why JS resolvers is good and dives into AppSync client library that enables executing the JS resolvers.
Jones Zachariah Noel’s (author) post about the developer experience of JavaScript resolvers for AWS AppSync APIs comparing the experience with VTL resolvers in terms of debugging, verbose syntax and the overwhelming complexity.
🚀 AWSome content to learn from
Andres Moreno continues the Cognito marathon to explore the user-password flow that explains the working of password flow and setting the SAM app with Cognito and API Stacks.
Worried about errors in Step Functions? Kasun de Silva has you covered with mastering AWS Step Functions error handling along with benefits and advanced error handling techniques and retries.
Uriel Bitton has curated the ultimate guide to getting started with DynamoDB which details things about DynanoDB basics, indexes and the right way to read data with query and scan APIs. And also Uriel writes about AWS EventBridge and it’s use-cases.
Vadym Kazulkin’s blog on AWS Serverless Scalablity - Part 1 which talks about the importance of constant learning and reiterates few of the updates from AWS Lambda, API Gateway, Aurora Serverless, SQS, DynamoDB.
Yan Cui brings in the insights of the best way to do fan-out/fan-in patterns in Serverless way that leverages Step Functions and choosing between standard/express SF.
Learn about security for API Gateway mTLS with open-source cloud CA by Paul Schwarzenberger with a step-by-step guide to setup and also testing the deployment of API Gateway mTLS.
Somil Gupta writes about the way to tackle rate limiting using AWS Step Function and Lambda that runs down an architecture and workflow using the retry mechanism.
Ran Isenberg guides you to build a Serverless Web app on Fargate ECS with AWS CDK which focuses on a Serverless Container approach for a chatbot web app walking through the CDK and Dockerfile.
⚒️ What's happening with Serverless tools and projects
Snapshot for Postgres goes OpenSource. Supabase’s postgres.new rolls out. And also support for Bring your own Auth.
Rehan van der Merwe has published AWS CDK Express pipeline library.
Marko has launched Lambda Live Debugger (alpha).
Alan Blockley has launched Region Compare (beta).
🎙️ Podcasts, videos and live-streams
On BelieveInServerless, Lorenzo Hidalgo Gadea talks about DynamoDB mistakes and tips to optimize usage, Khawaja Shams talks about Momento Topics.
Yan Cui on The Real World Serverless podcast with Luciano Mammino talk about Rust with Lambda and Middy.
Serverless Office hours - EventBridge under the hood with Nick Smit, Rishi Baldawa and Julian Wood.
Build on Weekly hosts Darko Mesaroš and Rohini Gaonkar take on the JSON adventures - API Gateway to DynamoDB.
The Zacs’ Show Talking AWS - Arshad Zackeriya and Jones Zachariah Noel (author) join in with Kasun de Silva to talk about Amazon Q debugging capabilities.
🗓️ Mark your calendars
Supabase and AntStack is hosting a meet-up in Bengaluru on August 24th, 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).
ServerlessDays Rome on December 13th, 2024 (CFPs are open).
ServerlessDays Manchester on February 20th, 2024 (CFPs are open).
AWS Community Days happening -
JAWS 24 hours of AWS on August 24-15th, 2025.
ACD Belfast on September 6th, 2024.
ACD DACH on September 17th, 2024.
ACD Italy on September 27th, 2024.
ACD Delhi NCR on September 21st, 2024 (CFPs are open).
ACD Hungary on October 4th, 2024 (CFPs are open).
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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