AWS re:Invent 2023 ended, so let’s look at the most interesting announcements for serverless and more. There are exciting features to try and, maybe more importantly, features to avoid!
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Dynamic Content with Lambda Response Streaming
With some creativity, we can use Lambda Response Streaming to dynamically show status updates, like the progress of long-running processes. And with proper TypeScript types and generator functions, we can write clean, dynamic content streaming Lambda with composable payload enrichers that will impress your work colleagues (if they are into this stuff).
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AWS Lambda – Node.js vs. Python for serverless
After tabs vs. spaces, vi vs. emacs, let’s fight over this: which is better, Node.js or Python for AWS Lambda and serverless in general? I have my opinion on this, and the fact I prefer TypeScript over Python makes me only slightly biased.
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Top 12 Serverless Announcements from re:Invent 2022
re:Invent 2022, the annual AWS conference in Las Vegas, is now behind us. I did not attend in person, but that gave me time to consolidate this list of top new serverless features while everyone else is sleeping off the intense 5-day conference. And I envy them just a little.
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Decision Tree: choose the right AWS messaging service
Have you ever been stuck deciding between SQS, SNS, Kinesis Streams, and EventBridge? Struggled to pick the right one for your use case? If the answer is “yes”, I’ve got you covered with a simple decision tree to help you make the right decision.
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Headless CMS with Gatsby on AWS for $0.00 per month
Can you have a website with a CMS on AWS and not pay just for its existence? I looked at Amazon Lightsail, headless WordPress, and Webiny CMS but found none of those suitable. So I choose Prismic – a SaaS headless CMS, and Gatsby to create the site. Yes, I needed to make a pipeline to build my website after content changes. But when I did it, I got a website with CMS hosted at no cost.
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Choosing between SQS, SNS, Kinesis, and EventBridge
AWS can overwhelm with the number of services. Especially if multiple services seem to do a very similar job. Let’s look at the cloud-native AWS messaging services – the SQS, SNS, Kinesis, and EventBridge. What are the differences and when to use which one?
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Things I Found Interesting
Things I Found Interesting #3
Here we are again, with selected content from all over the internet about Tools, Tech, Cloud, Programming, Work, and a single article I couldn’t categorize. Probably because I’m still in shock after reading it.
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AWS Lambda performance optimization
There are two reasons to optimize AWS Lambda functions performance. First is money – you pay for the Lambda execution duration. The quicker you do the job, the less you pay. The second is latency – the quicker you do the job, the shorter your client waits for the result. It’s a known fact that the decrease of latency improves sales, user engagement, and client satisfaction – so we could argue it’s also the money, in the end.
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AWS Lambda logging best practices
Logging in AWS Lambda functions is simple. You just print the message, and it’s sent to the CloudWatch Logs. And everything is fine until you get a surprisingly big bill for the CloudWatch usage, or you need to actually debug some live system. Here are my tips for logging in AWS Lambda, based on my experience with real-live, big-scale functions running on production.
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