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How to Host a Serverless Static Website on AWS with API Gateway — Using API Gateway to serve a static website from S3 can be useful when you have special requirements that Cloudfront cannot fulfil alone. Be warned, this could get pricey at scale.

How to Test AWS Lambda Locally — One of those things that will seem appealing at first but which ultimately results in a different experience to real life.

Going Serverless with Your Own URL Shortener Serverless Service — If bitly isn’t cutting it for you, serverless is a fantastic fit for building your own URL redirection service. This post covers some of the considerations behind going this route and how AWS Lambda and DynamoDB make it simple.

Going Serverless with OpenFaaS and .NET — OpenFaaS is a very flexible platform that supports numerous languages and environments, including .NET and C# as we see here (F# is also briefly demonstrated).

The Challenges of Massively Parallel Serverless Computing in AWS — A look at the design and challenges of implementing a massively parallel scientific data processing system on AWS to compute hurricane wind footprints in Fortran! Truly a case of old and new, big and small coming together.

A Look at AWS Lambda's New Security Overview Paper — AWS has released a Security Overview of AWS Lambda paper (PDF) and this article boils it down a bit, although the original is only 20 pages and high level enough to be readable by all.

How to Debug Go-Powered AWS Lambda Functions with Gebug — Go is a fantastic language for serverless use cases but local debugging can be a pain point. Here are some pointers that involve Gebug, a tool for debugging Dockerized Go apps.

AWS Lambda and DynamoDB Tips Learnt in 2020 — A bundle of various things the author has picked up including thoughts on using Lambda synchronously vs asynchronously, how to structure apps, triggers, cold starts, and the limitations of DynamoDB.

Serverless Nest.js Micro-Services and Integrations without HTTP — You’ve got a Node app, you want to take it serverless.. you use API Gateway and have your Node app spin up an HTTP server and work through that, right? Nope, there’s a more direct way to do it.

A Dive Into Processing Millions in Donations in 2 Hours with Cloudflare Workers — A look at the serverless architecture behind the Late Late Toy Show donation platform.

14 Use Cases for AWS Lambda: How to Make the Most of It — When I rave about serverless to other developers, the most common question I get is.. well what can you actually do with it? This article may provide some inspiration for anyone asking such questions.

Batch Processing using AWS Lambda — Rather than running a scheduling engine of your own on, say, EC2, you can bring together a CloudWatch powered cron trigger, a serverless function to kick start jobs, and you’re off to the races.

Building a Terminal Chat App with Serverless Redis — This is a bit of fun, but the sort of fun I like when it involves Redis, serverless, and Node. Blessed handles the terminal UI, and Lambda Store the serverless Redis.

From Prototype to Production in One Weekend with Serverless — This sort of article is preaching to the choir in this newsletter, but we do love a story of how serverless enables rapid development when it’s necessary.

Using a Twitter DM-Based Database for Twitterbots on AWS Lambda — Naughty? Genius? A bit of both? This approach made me smile at least. Are you going to use this for anything serious? Probably not.

Moving BBC Online to the Cloud — The BBC’s Web presence is significant and operationally complex and, I didn’t know till now, largely serverless:

Java Developers, It’s Time To Give AWS Lambda a Try — Java was never an obvious match for serverless technology in the early days but now it provides a totally viable way to build serverless functions and you should be getting involved, says the author.