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The Ultimate Guide to AWS Step Functions — “Ultimate” is always a hard word to defend in a title, but this is still a pretty good introduction to AWS’s often misunderstood ‘state machines/workflows as a service’ system.

Exploring AWS Lambda Deployment Limits — It might be a serverless service that can scale a long way, but Lambda does have a variety of limitations to be aware of, such as total deployment size, the amount of memory you can use, timeouts, etc.

5 Popular Use Cases for Going Serverless — A brief recap of 5 most common serverless use cases.

A Crash Course on Using AWS CDK — AWS’s Cloud Development Kit (CDK) makes it possible to define cloud infrastructure in code and provision it with CloudFormation. This article looks at the basics of using it to create a serverless app for querying different data systems.

A Guide to Lambda Triggers for Design Patterns — The first in a series of posts that looks at the correlation of ways to trigger serverless functions within common serverless architectural patterns. The aggregator and ‘data lake’ patterns are examined in this outing.

The Challenges of Going Serverless: 2020 Edition — Even if you love ‘pay as you go’ and you don’t miss all that boring ops work, serverless still poses some challenges from unique security risks to vendor lock-in.

Using AWS API Gateway to Run Database Queries — API Gateway is commonly used to hook up HTTP endpoints to AWS Lambda functions but did you know it can directly connect to DynamoDB? (Or any AWS service that lets you query over the AWS API, so not RDS.)

Why Serverless Apps Fail and How to Design Resilient Architectures — After monitoring thousands of serverless systems at Dashbird, they’ve got a few tips on what things fail most often and how to avoid a key problem with throughput and concurrency. Spoiler: Use a queue!

Dashbird's Serverless Knowledge Base — Dashbird is an AWS monitoring service and they’ve put together a public knowledge base covering topics from serverless generally to Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway, and logging.