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Why We Switched CDNs: How Google's Core Web Vitals Led Us to Cloudflare Pages — In order to deal with issues with time to first byte (TTFB) in their Core Web Vitals assessment, this post compares TTFB results from Netlify, Vercel, Cloudflare Pages and Gatsby Cloud.

Building a Basic Scraper/Aggregator Site with Next.js, Go Cloud Functions and Supabase — A fun experiment that uses Go to scrape event data from sites and populate a Supabase database which is then used as the data to back a Next.js site.

'It Doesn’t Matter How Much You Spend on AWS' — States that “simply cutting your cloud costs may not be a good long-term strategy” — noting how it may lead to a decline in quality, limit your ability to scale, and stifle innovation. “The real question you should be asking is how cost-efficient your infrastructure is”.

The State of Databases for Serverless & Edge in 2023 — Lee notes that there’s been massive innovation in the database and backend space for devs building serverless and edge compute oriented apps. There are new tools, companies, and even programming models that simplify how developers store data — this post is an overview of databases that pair well with modern serverless platforms.

AWS Lambda Pricing: A Complete Guide — Get up to speed (or refreshed) on the ‘pay-per-use’ pricing model of AWS Lambda and how it charges based on usage, runtime, and the number of requests.

Three Principles for Building Secure Serverless Functions — A walk through the main security risks that affect serverless functions and key principles for managing those risks

The Risks of Moving Too Quickly with Serverless Development — Notes that we may often get caught up in the excitement of fast moving serverless technologies, adding that “serverless is about enablement, not reckless development”.

Serverless Logging with Amazon OpenSearch Serverless and Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose — A look at how you can use Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose to build a log ingestion pipeline to send VPC flow logs to Amazon OpenSearch Serverless.

Serverless GraphQL API Federation — Shares how to build a GraphQL API utilizing AWS AppSync with the aim being “to have one GraphQL API federate multiple private domain service APIs”.

Slashing Serverless API Latency with AppSync JavaScript Resolvers — If you’ve written a serverless function you’ve likely encountered the ‘cold start’ problem. Rawad looks at how to go about reducing it.

Build a Serverless ChatGPT SMS Chatbot with OpenAI and Node — If there’s a way to attach something to a text messaging service, Twilio is sure to find it :-)

Introducing Maximum Concurrency of AWS Lambda Functions When Using SQS As An Event Source — AWS Lambda now provides a way to control the maximum number of concurrent functions invoked by SQS as an event source. This post describes how to set such a maximum, and also provides an overview of the scaling behavior of Lambda using this architectural pattern, challenges this feature helps...

Build Your Dream App with a Free, Serverless SQL Database — CockroachDB’s serverless database helps developers minimize ops headaches and infrastructure costs from the start, and provides peace of mind by scaling effortlessly (up and down) as workloads change. Try CockroachDB today. Free forever.

▶  What is Serverless? — Ready, Set, Cloud! is a new podcast from Allen Helton. In this first episode (~23 minutes) Khawaja Shams, CEO of Momento, discusses what constitutes a serverless service. Asking if it’s simply abstracting servers away from consumers, does it include scale to 0, etc? Related blog post.

Azure Functions 2022 Recap and 2023 Sneak Peek — This recap of the past year in all things Azure Functions is a good overview of where things stand, and it offers us a little glimpse at the plans for the year ahead, including improvements to durable functions.

Transferring Data from AWS to GCP using Storage Transfer Service — Here’s a step-by-step process for transferring data from AWS S3 to Google’s serverless-friendly Cloud Storage in a secure manner using identity federation.

This Is Why You Should Keep Stateful and Stateless Resources Together — “separating them into separate stacks violates one of the most important principles in software engineering and complicates things unnecessarily”.

Decoupling Microservices with AWS EventBridge Pipes — AWS has introduced a new service called EventBridge Pipes. This post looks at how decoupling of services can be done without EventBridge Pipes and the problems you will likely encounter. It then looks at how EventBridge Pipes can be used to solve the problems.

Generate Excel Workbooks from Postgres on AWS — A distinctly AWS-flavored recipe here (for both RDS and Aurora) for extracting data from Postgres into Excel workbooks by way of AWS Lambda and S3.

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”.

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.'

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.