#127 — November 15, 2019 |
Serverless Status |
Google Cloud Run Now Generally Available — Cloud Run is a serverless compute platform for running stateless HTTP-driven containers (as opposed to Cloud Functions’ purely function-based approach). It’s based on Knative and is available on GCP and for Anthos. Google Cloud |
AWS Lambda is 5 Years Old, Here's What Hacker News Thought — There hasn't been any official celebration of this that I can tell, but I had it in my calendar (yes, I'm sad!) and it's neat reflecting on what people thought of Lambda on its release. We've come so far. Hacker News |
Add Your API to the Fastest Growing Developer Communities — Sell your managed services to millions of developers with one simple integration. Manifold sponsor |
Durable Functions 2.0 Now Available on Azure Functions — Durable entities brings an actor-like programming model to Azure Functions that provides the ability to build highly concurrent, stateful, serverless applications. Microsoft |
▶ Discussing Running Serverless Containers on Google Cloud Run — Jeremy Daly chats with Google’s Bret McGowen about how Cloud Run (newly GA!) makes containers ‘serverless’ and what the future of serverless looks like at Google Cloud. Serverless Chats podcast |
Tencent Cloud and Serverless Inc Join Forces to Bring the Serverless Movement to China — Tencent becomes a Premier Cloud Provider of the Serverless Framework. Bill Fine (Serverless Inc.) |
Building a Serverless 'Weather Bot' with Two-Way SMS, AWS SAM, and AWS Lambda — Sending SMS text messages with Amazon SNS is easy, but did you know messages can go both ways? There’s quite a few moving pieces on show here but the end result is pretty neat with the technique easily applicable to other use cases. James Beswick |
How to Publish Your App and Not Your Source Code — This is an interesting (if sneaky) ‘trick’. Some hosting platforms let you host functions for free but demand your code is publicly available. A workaround? Encrypt your code and store the key in a secret. We’ll let you judge how viable this is long term(!) Ilya Kaminsky |
Convert Radio Waves to Alerts using SDR, AWS Lambda and Amazon Transcribe — The basic approach of transforming voice (received over the air via a software-defined radio system) to data and alerts using AWS and Opsgenie. Fahri Yardımcı |
.NET Core 3.0 AWS Lambda Benchmarks and Recommendations — .NET Core 3.0 has been out of preview for about a month now. Here are some up to date benchmarks and recommendations. Zac Charles |
How To Get AWS Lambda Logs Into CloudWatch — Getting your Lambda log entries into CloudWatch can help with analysis and evaluation later. Lou Bichard |
The SaaS CTO Security Checklist — Learn all of the latest best practices for SaaS CTOs and technical leaders around leveling up your company’s security. Sqreen sponsor |
Architecting a Low-Cost Web Content Publishing System — A quick case study of how a university built a low maintenance CMS from the outside in. IDK |
Localstack: A Fully Functional Local AWS Cloud Stack — Yet another way to develop and test your cloud and serverless apps offline :-) LocalStack |