#179 — December 4, 2020 |
Serverless Status |
AWS re:Invent's Serverless Smörgåsbord AWS always unveils lots of new goodies at re:Invent, and the opening few days have shown us just how important serverless is to them with a wide variety of news:
Amazon Web Services |
Webinar: Build a Serverless App with Lambda & Step Functions — Join Lumigo & Cloudway for a webinar on Thu, Dec 10, on building serverless apps with Lambda and Step Functions. We'll demo the entire workflow and show you how to build the architecture and how to monitor the app. Save your spot. Lumigo sponsor |
How to Progressively Deliver New Image Formats to Users with CSS and Cloudflare Workers — When your browser makes a request, it can tell the server what types of responses it accepts, including what image formats it supports. Couple this information with a Cloudflare Worker.. and you can dynamically return more modern formats like AVIF or WebP to users and know it’ll work. James Ross |
Automatically Generating Social Share Images Serverlessly — This is a perfect use case for a serverless function and a great example of post that pulls together a variety of ideas for a creative end result. Ryan Filler |
▶ Discussing Serverless for Operations with Ryan Coleman — Ryan Coleman of Stackery talks about his work as a sysadmin and where serverless fits into the ops sphere. Serverless Chats Podcast podcast |
AWS Lambda Now Supports Batch Windows and Bigger Batches from SQS — Because we couldn't fit everything in above, you get a re:Invent bonus here too ;-) If you are using SQS as an event source for your Lambda functions, messages would be batched up in groups of up to 10. Now you can define a ‘windows’ of up to 5 minutes in which up to 10,000 messages can be batched. Amazon Web Services |
Serverless Transformation on a Brazilian News Media Outlet — The whys, hows, good, bad and the ugly of serverless transformation at Nexo Jornal. Ibrahim Cesar |
Creating Faster AWS Lambda Functions with AVX2 — AVX2 is a set of SIMD x86 instructions aimed at speeding up vector-oriented algorithms (think image manipulation or deep learning) and you can now run AVX2-optimized workloads on Lambda, your supercomputer in the cloud(!) James Beswick (AWS) |
14 Use Cases for AWS Lambda: How to Make the Most of It — When I rave about serverless to other developers, the most common question I get is.. well what can you actually do with it? This article may provide some inspiration for anyone asking such questions. TechMagic |
lambda-go-api-proxy: For Porting APIs on Go Frameworks (Such as 'Gin') to AWS Lambda + API Gateway — Also supports Negroni, GorillaMux, and plain Amazon Web Services - Labs |
Lambda, EC2 or Fargate? A Simple Approach to Choosing AWS Compute for Enterprise Workloads |
Deploy Serverless Docker Containers and Functions with Koyeb CLI |
The future's bright.. |