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6 days ago·8 min readPhoto by Markus Spiske on UnsplashBuilding your first end to end data orchestration and data pipeline could be overwhelming. There are numerous tech stacks and open source tools one can use, so it could be hard to decide, learn and build one fully functional production pipeline.Fortunately, AWS ...

So, you have a genuinely valid reason, you’re interested in a short-term fix, or you only started reading from here: how can you enable and disable an event source mapping on a schedule?Let’s look at an “only do work at night” scenario where we want our event source mapping to be enabled every night between 01:00 an...

How to Keep Your CloudWatch Bill Under Control When Running AWS Lambda at Scale — If your Lambda functions are flooding CloudWatch with log messages, you’ll start to see the costs rack up. Here’s a practical look at a way to mitigate this.

Building a Serverless API with Deno and Begin — Deno is particularly well suited to serverless use cases, and while there are layers to use it directly on AWS Lambda, this post looks at Begin which provides powerful tooling and abstractions to make the process smoother.

Using the AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) — As well as being a useful SAM tutorial in its own right, this acts as a comparison between the AWS SAM approach versus that provided by Serverless Framework.

▶  Things I Wish I Knew Before Migrating to the Cloud with Jared Short — Trek10’s Jared Short talks about the ‘ever expanding’ cloud work and why trying to master every cloud service isn’t really viable. This chat is less about tech per se and more about how to approach and structure its use.

Xinja Almost Abandoned a Serverless Backend Built for Apple Pay — Xinja is an Australian online-only bank that built an Apple Pay capability solely on serverless tech in six weeks.

▶  Discussing Serverless Developer Culture with Linda Nichols — Jeremy Daly chats with Microsoft’s Linda Nichols about modern cloud development and deployment practices, the importance of ops, and testing culture.

▶  Discussing Serverless Use Cases with Gareth McCumskey — A chat with Gareth McCumskey (of Serverless Inc) about different production-level serverless use cases including RESTful APIs, GraphQL, WebSockets, and capturing clickstream data.

Lambda Store: A 'Serverless Redis' Service — This seems a neat idea. Claiming to not be just another Redis cloud service, Lambda Store applies a serverless-style pricing model which opens up a variety of neat use cases for the popular data structure server (serverless caching, for starters). The underlying system appears to be a custom clone of Redis rather than the real deal, however.

▶  Better Serverless Microservices using Domain Driven Design — Jeremy Daly chats with Susanne Kaiser, an independent serverless consultant, about the patterns and practices of Domain Driven Design and how they can help you build better serverless backends. (55 minutes.)

A Collection of 32 Serverless Patterns — A group of academics collected together various serverless patterns they’d seen in talks, on blogs, and in other papers and, well, here’s a summary of what they found. The 32 patterns covered are broken down into areas like aggregation, event management, and authorization.

▶  Communication Patterns in Serverless with Paul Swail — A chat about the types of messaging systems available from AWS, how to use them with your serverless apps, and how thinking asynchronously is key when building resilient systems.

▶  Using HTTP APIs for API Gateway with Eric Johnson and Alan Tan — A discussion of why HTTP APIs (which now has a rather specific meaning in the API Gateway context) should be your first choice, the path to REST API feature parity, implementing CORS and authentication, and more.

▶  Discussing Advanced NoSQL Data Modeling in DynamoDB — What a treat! AWS’s Rick Houlihan is well known for his advanced DynamoDB talks and now he’s on the Serverless Chats podcast talking about the use cases for NoSQL, why single table designs are so powerful, ways to model relational data with GSIs, and, of course, a lot more (there’s even a part 2). A must...

▶  Discussing the Frontlines of Serverless with Yan Cui — Jeremy Daly and Yan Cui, both serverless heroes in their own ways, chat about the adoption of serverless, the current state of frameworks and developer tools, etc. A good catch up of where things are at. It’s an hour long but there’s a transcript too.