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Understanding The Database Options for Your Serverless Apps on AWS — This is very much from the AWS perspective, but briefly covers RDS and DynamoDB and why you might use either (or even combine them together).

Why You Should Never, Ever print() in a Lambda Function — There are amateur and ‘pro’ ways to do logging and error handling in serverless functions, and Paul aims to show you the better path worth taking.

Efficient Serverless Deployment of PyTorch Models on Azure — A tutorial for serving models cost-effectively at scale using Azure Functions and ONNX Runtime.

Creating Low-Latency, High-Volume APIs with Provisioned Concurrency — AWS Lambda introduced Provisioned Concurrency as an option to eliminate cold starts a little while ago – this post digs into a practical example of how it works.

Faster CI/CD for All Your Software Projects Using Buildkite 🚀 — See how Shopify scaled from 300 to 1800 engineers while keeping their build times under 5 minutes.

Making Magic: Reimagining Developer Experience for the World of Serverless — A look at a lesser known metric.. TTFD – or “time to first dopamine”! Cloudflare is aiming to get that time to the first “oh wow” as low as possible.

Direct Lambda Resolvers: AWS AppSync GraphQL APIs without VTL — AWS AppSync is a managed serverless GraphQL service for building APIs. VTL (Velocity Template Language) is used to translate GraphQL requests into queries for an underlying data source.. but these are now optional when integrating AppSync with Lambda due to Direct Lambda Resolvers which let you create resolver logic in any runtime supported by Lambda.

The Serverless Transformation Podcast — We link to Serverless Chats all the time, and while it’s a great show, there are other serverless podcasts on the block too :-) Talking Serverless and Real World Serverless are two others worth checking in with too.

TriggerMesh Now Integrates with Amazon EventBridge — The brand new TriggerMesh integration with Amazon EventBridge lets you use any TriggerMesh source in EventBridge. Our sources include GitHub, GitLab, Slack, Zendesk, Azure Activity Logs, as well as on-premises apps. Try it out.

Cloudflare Unveils 'Workers Unbound' — Somehow it’s been three years since Cloudflare released Workers, their JavaScript-powered take on an edge-based serverless platform. Unbound takes Workers a step further with support for longer execution times. In related news, they’ve also announced broader language support for Workers, by supporting Python, Scala, Kotlin, Reason and Dart out of the box.

How I Built a Serverless Search for My Blog — An interesting writeup of how someone built a custom search system using Java and Apache Lucene compiled into a native binary with GraalVM and then running that on AWS Lambda.

Eliminating Cold Starts with Cloudflare Workers — No one likes cold starts – that delay when a function isn’t loaded, in memory, and ready to run. But Cloudflare thinks they have an optimization to eradicate them.. load the worker first thing during TLS negotiation. This only works because Workers’ load time is low in the first place, though.

How to Create Your First HTTP Endpoint with Swift on AWS Lambda — The Swift AWS Lambda Runtime was introduced in May, but here’s a more practical guide to creating and deploying your own Swift-powered function on AWS Lambda. While Swift is becoming a popular standalone language in its own right, this may be particularly interesting to you if you have recent macOS or iOS development experience.

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Implementing Serverless 'Magic' Login Links with AWS Cognito — ‘Magic’ links are a form of authentication where instead of using a password you get sent an email with a link that then logs you into a system. Note that this is more an example/proof of concept (using JavaScript) than a tutorial.

A Calculator to See If Serverless is Cheaper For Your Use Case — An introduction to a calculator hosted on Google Sheets that lets you plug in a variety of variables like sessions per day, usage type, database use, etc. and then give you a rough idea of costs across various AWS services.