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Time flies, it's already end of July! I'm still dreaming of feedback about this newsletter... maybe for my birthday in a few days :) This newsletter is a bit shorter than usual, I was working on my AWS Devops Engineer Pro certification, which I passed :) Enjoy the content, the beach, the sun and your family. Hope to see you in September in real life. I work on it... Jerome
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| The Serverless Paradigm | |
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This introspection of serverless provided in this article comforts me in my choice to work on this topic. Serverless is clearly the next-gen evolution of infrastructure and architecture. Serverless won't replace "servers", just like cloud won't replace on-prem needs but it will certainly become a big part of IT infrastructure. |
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Introducing the new Serverless LAMP stack When I was a teenager, in the 90's, I wrote a lot of PHP, using the LAMP stack (Linux / Apache / MySQL / PHP). Few years later, when I see a serverless version of this stack, I feel both nostalgic of the past and also very happy to see that despite everything we can say against PHP, it also evolves and benefits from the new technologies. |
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In this series of articles ( 1 / 2 / 3), Benjamin Smith goes through this new stack using Lambda and API Gateway in place of Linux and Apache. Really cool! |
| AWS Serverless: you might not need third party monitoring | |
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If you don't need or don't want to invest in a third party serverless monitoring tool (such as Lumigo, Dashbird, Epsagon or Thundra), this articles deep dives on the use of AWS native solution: Cloudwatch (logs, metrics, alarms, embedded metrics, filters, log insight, dashboards) and X-Ray. Lots of information on all the Cloudwatch features you may not already know. |
| ICYMI: Serverless Q2 2020 |
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This newsletter is not exhaustive, so I probably missed a few great articles from the AWS blog. With this 10th edition of ICYMI (In case you missed it), you'll get everything in one place. It summarises all the articles, all the announcements, events, workshops, ... from last quarter. A mine of information! |
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The Storage First Pattern |
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In this article, Jeremy Daly describes a common pattern to reliably get data from an API and store it in a database. More precisely, it shows how to insert in a relational database leveraging SQS (for the decoupling) and its integration with API Gateway. Also, don't miss other serverless reference architectures from Jeremy Daly, clearly something to have in your bookmarks when building a serverless solution... |
| Using the AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) | |
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When you build serverless applications, or just Lambda functions, you need a framework in order to be more efficient. In this article, Andrew May provides a nice presentation of SAM and concludes with a comparison with the Serverless Framework. By the way, AWS announced the GA of SAM CLI... |
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| Build a Serverless Web App for a Theme Park | |
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This series of 5 workshops (+videos) will guide you through the development and deployment of a serverless website for a theme park. Very good job (as always) from James Beswick. |
| Java 11 for Azure Functions (preview) | |
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Coding in Java 11? On Azure? It is now possible in Azure Functions! |
| Building deep learning inference with AWS Lambda and Amazon EFS | |
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Announced a few weeks ago, the EFS and Lambda integration is demonstrated in this article in order to load deep learning libraries and models from EFS to perform inferences in the Lambda function. Certainly a use case that will explode in the coming months! |
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| Five reasons you should consider AppSync over API Gateway | |
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In this article, Yann Cui provides 5 reasons you should use AppSync instead of API Gateway. One of my favorites is the ability to create pub/sub with websockets. It is not mentioned in the article but GraphQL is also really cool when you develop mobile applications. |
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