Jun 3, 2021

ST #39: Thoughts on the State of Serverless

By Serverless Transformation - by aleios • Issue #39 • View online

Welcome to the new look Serverless Transformation Newsletter! Every two weeks, we share our favourite resources to help you up your Serverless game and keep on top of the latest developments and best practices.

New Releases

CloudFormation Guard 2.0

Nervous that someone on your team might accidentally create a public S3 bucket with sensitive data? CloudFormation Guard lets you validate infrastructure before you deploy – and version 2.0 supports any JSON/YAML file (such as Kubernetes and Terraform, as well as CloudFormation).

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Amazon Location Service

We were very excited by the preview, promising a completely Serverless solution to easily add maps, points of interest, geocoding, routing, tracking, and geofencing to our applications. And with clearer data security, it has some nice advantages over the current options in the space.

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API Gateway REST APIs now integrate with Step Functions Synchronous Express Workflows

As we often say, you don’t always need a Lambda. Synchronous Express Step functions are getting used more and more for user facing features – and now you can trigger them directly from API Gateway, without having to write, think about and deal with cold-starts of a featureless Lambda.

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Coffee-Break Reads

The State of Serverless

The second annual report by DataDog – analysing millions of real-world serverless functions – is not to be missed.

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Favourite things we learned:

“In 2020, the median Lambda invocation took just 60 milliseconds—about half of the previous year’s value. One possible explanation is that more organizations are following Lambda best practices and designing functions to be highly specific to their workloads, which helps reduce the duration of invocations.”

“Most CloudFormation stacks include only one Lambda function” Why? These lambdas are doing simple auxiliary jobs, organisations are still in the early stage of adoption, or… monolithic Lambda functions 😱

Why Serverless will enable the Edge Computing Revolution

Our own Ben Ellerby writes about how Serverless will enable us to move computing and storage closer to the end user.

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Serverless Bootcamp

New to Serverless or know someone who is?

12 Common Misconceptions about DynamoDB

We’ve spent a lot of time trying to convince people to use DynamoDB when they’re used to more traditional databases like Postgres. Here’s the article we’d show them now.

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And that’s it for this week! What do you think of the new format? Reply to this email and let us know!

Best wishes,

Ben, Alex & Hari.

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