Serverless Status Issue 275: January 6, 2023

#275 — January 6, 2023

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Hello! 👋 After a break over the holidays we're back to bring you up to speed on all things serverless in 2023 — so a happy new year to you (if it ▶️ isn't too late). If you missed our last issue, it was a round-up of some of the biggest and best links we shared in serverless status throughout 2022 — you can read it here.

Now, a quick housekeeping note for things going forward: serverless status is moving to a fortnightly cadence, meaning you'll get this email digest every two weeks. As such, we'll be back again on January 20th. Thanks so much for reading, and let's get to it!
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Chris Brandrick and the Cooperpress team

2022 in Serverless — A solid end of year recap/review from Allen looking back over all things serverless in 2022, including updates on EventBridge, Step Functions, Lambda, and more — “an incredible year for serverless”.

Allen Helton

Serverless Production Readiness Checklist — New year, new projects? This kinds of checklist is always handy. This one spans security, backups, crisis recovery, CI/CD, and support readiness.

Ran Isenberg

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Tips for Keeping Your Lambda Functions Secure — Some best practices for securing Lambda functions (protecting API endpoints, encryption, vulnerability analysis, etc).

Lorenzo Campo

⚡️ IN BRIEF

MerLoc is a new open-source tool for redirecting serverless invocations from the AWS cloud to a local environment. More details here or the GitHub repo.
Announced last month, but ICYMI Vercel Edge Functions are now generally available.
Here's how you can estimate what it may cost to run an application that currently runs on AWS EMR clusters using the new serverless option.
Marcia Villalba brings us up to speed on all things serverless that happened in Q4 at AWS with this handy recap.

A Side-by-Side Comparison of Serverless Databases — This article compares commonly used serverless databases including DynamoDB, Mongo Atlas, Cockroach serverless, and Fauna — but the article itself comes via Fauna, so keep that in mind 😉.

Fauna

▶ Multi-Region Event-Driven Applications with EventBridge Global Endpoints — A new Foobar video from Marcia, this time looking at building a multi-region app with a strategy for handling regional failure — EventBridge Global Endpoints can help. ~15 minutes.

Marcia Villalba

Achieving Idempotency in the AWS Serverless Space — A look at the multiple ways in which you can ensure idempotency with SNS, SQS and DynamoDB.

Qasim Albaqali

How to Get the User‘s Timezone in JavaScript with Edge Functions — This post details how to display times on a site in the user’s time zone by converting them and updating the page all 'on the edge.'

Salma Alam-Naylor