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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.

DynamoDB Design Patterns for Single Table Design — I hope you’ve got a lot of time because this goes into serious depth.

Join Me at Microsoft Create:Serverless: Conversations with Community and Industry Experts — Me and a whole amazing raft of great serverless speakers and community members are getting together on Sep 30 for a half-day virtual event. If you want to join in, you can learn more and register here (it’s free).

Running a Serverless OAuth Proxy with Grant — Grant is a JavaScript-powered OAuth proxy that, till now, has needed to be run in a typical HTTP servery way, but.. it now supports AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, Cloud Functions and Vercel out of the box!

Serverless September: Daily Serverless Content — We’ll link to some of the articles as the month progresses, but if you want to keep up to date, each day this page will link to new articles posted as part of Azure’s Serverless September serverless content push. It won’t surprise you most articles will be covering Azure Functions, of course :-)

Surviving a Heatwave Using Google Cloud Functions — Dealing with a humid and hot summer in Belgium, Adriaan wanted some reminders to open and close his windows and curtains at certain times to keep temperatures bearable. This is how he approached the task using Google’s serverless platform.

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.

Hosting Without Hoisting: NPM Flattening for Zero Cold Start Serverless — Join our open online meetup next week to hear how Schachar Levin hacked down the NPM tree.

Airtable Proxy Cloudflare Worker: A Way to Make Secure Requests to the Airtable API from a Frontend — A well presented use case for something like Cloudflare Workers – proxying requests securely from a Web-based front-end to a backend API while keep secrets secret.

Serverless MySQL: A Module to Manage MySQL Connections at Scale — This wraps around the usual mysql module and adds a little connection management designed for serverless use cases where you want to clean up any connections that aren’t being used.

sls-dev-tools: Dev Tools for the Serverless World, Now with Notifications — We featured this project just two issues ago but development is happening fast and the latest version now lets you get push notifications if any lambdas you’re monitoring encounter errors.. neat!

Refactor Your Node and Express APIs to Serverless with Azure Functions — John Papa points out a Microsoft tutorial that walks through the process of taking a Node API serverless with Azure’s Functions service.

DVSA: A 'Damn Vulnerable' Serverless Application — A ‘deliberately vulnerable’ app that acts as an aid for anyone who wants to test their serverless security skills in a safe, legal way.

Chromda: An AWS Lambda Function for Capturing Screenshots of Websites — You can pass in the URLs to capture via an SNS topic, SQS queue, scheduled event or over HTTP.

Browser Functions: A New Serverless Platform using Web Browser Execution Engines? — Given that the environment provided by a modern Web browser is now a pretty stable and powerful thing, why not use the same environment on the backend? IBM Research has been experimenting with this idea.

Lambda API: A Lightweight Web Framework for Serverless Apps — A stripped down framework that takes an Express-esque approach to putting together serverless JavaScript apps to run on AWS Lambda behind API Gateway.