Happy 10th Birthday, DynamoDB (Again – But This Time There's a Party) — Technically Amazon marked this milestone last month but this post is a more technical roundup from the AWS team itself. They’ve also announced a virtual event on March 1 that promises a full day of DynamoDB related talks – we hope there's cake.

Sébastien Stormacq

Opinion: Vercel, Netlify, and the New Era of 'Serverless PaaS' — An emerging set of vendors is trying to simplify the job of web development, again. Is this the next generation of platform as a service, or something completely different?

Scott Carey (InfoWorld)

Use Group Step Type to Better Organize Complex Pipelines ✨ — The group step allows steps to be displayed in logical groupings and nested under a top level group, displayed as the step label on the build page 🏗 👀

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Is Serverless Just a Stopover for Event-Driven Architecture? — Questions whether serverless may be a “more limited sub-pattern case of a much bigger trend” in event-driven architecture.

Mark Hinkle

How to Run Every Node.js Version on AWS Lambda — Node.js has been a first class platform on AWS’s serverless platform from day one, but the versions you can (easily) use have been limited to a subset. Everynode, however, provides a way to use any version of Node on AWS Lambda from v11 upwards.

Tomasz Janczuk (Fusebit)

Serverless Offline 8.5: Local Emulation of AWS Lambda and API Gateway — An interesting Serverless Framework-oriented alternative to AWS SAM Local that supports Node, Python, Go and Ruby runtimes.

David Hérault