You Can Now Mount a Shared File System in AWS Lambda Functions — This is a big deal! AWS Lambda functions can now mount Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) file systems which opens up a lot of new use cases. While you could push and pull files to and from S3 before, having a proper, shared filesystem ready to go within a serverless function is a big development.

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Eliminating Cold Starts by Predicting Invocations of Functions — Is it possible to use data to anticipate when serverless functions might be needed in order to pre-warm them? There’s a paper that digs into just that and this post digs deep into the idea.

Mikhail Shilkov

Understand Serverless Functions & Why They Fail — Monitor & troubleshoot microservice environments to get the full picture of what they’re doing, down to the payload level. Optimize service costs, troubleshoot issues & reduce MTTR with full data correlation & distributed tracing. Try free and grab a t-shirt.

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AWS Lambda Powertools for Python Now Generally Available — A suite of utilities for AWS Lambda Functions that makes tracing with AWS X-Ray, structured logging and creating custom metrics asynchronously easier.

AWS Labs

Rolling User Auth in Cloudflare Workers Apps with Auth0 — Cloudflare have added a very extensive tutorial to their official docs for Workers that overs authenticating and authorizing users with the Auth0 identity platform and then persisting the credentials in Workers KV.

Cloudflare

Creating a Basic CI/CD Pipeline for Serverless Apps — How to set up a CI/CD pipeline around AWS SAM, GitHub and CircleCI.

Emily Shea

An Introduction to Cloudflare Workers KV — Workers KV is a serverless key-value store designed to be used from Workers serverless functions.

Kay Plößer

Building Loosely-Coupled Serverless Solutions with Azure Event Grid — Event Grid can massively simplify how you connect services in any solution without the need for a lot of configuration or management ceremony.

Simon Waight

Save Your Sprints. Build Tools 5x Faster — Quickly build the tools your company needs with Retool. UI building blocks connect to any DB or API— Lambda included.

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Some Google Serverless Gripes — “I’m all in on Google but I wish Google was all-in on serverless and had better offerings to help startups like ours thrive.”

David E. Weekly

Planning on Using AWS Step Functions? Think Again — Step Functions provides a way to coordinate multiple AWS services in serverless workflows and they’re great.. for some use cases. Bassem digs in.

Bassem Dghaidi

Airtable Proxy Cloudflare Worker: A Way to Make Secure Requests to the Airtable API from a Frontend — A well presented use case for something like Cloudflare Workers – proxying requests securely from a Web-based front-end to a backend API while keep secrets secret.

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