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▶  Optimizing for Maintainability with Joe Emison — Joe is the CTO of Branch, an insurance company, and this episode of Serverless Chats digs more into organizational issues around maintainability, stakeholder trust, and how Branch builds its software. Oh, and they’re fully serverless too.

100G Networking in AWS, A Network Performance Deep Dive — “All in all, it’s pretty cool to be able to do 100G on AWS. As long as you are aware of the various limitations, which unfortunately aren’t well documented.”

Dear Google Cloud: 'Your Deprecation Policy is Killing You' — Muttering about how Google keeps sunsetting things is a hobby of mine but the thoughts of a well respected developer who’s been thinking about it a lot more than me are certainly more edifying. (Note: If cursing bothers you, steer clear.)

A Calculator to See If Serverless is Cheaper For Your Use Case — An introduction to a calculator hosted on Google Sheets that lets you plug in a variety of variables like sessions per day, usage type, database use, etc. and then give you a rough idea of costs across various AWS services.

Docker Releases Plugin for Simplified Deployments into AWS ECS and Fargate — Docker has announced the public beta of their enhanced integration of Docker with AWS Elastic Container Service and AWS Fargate.

How to Make a Parallelized Cron Job in AWS, for The Laziest Programmers — There’s not really an AWS service that shouts about being able to do this, but you can rig up the idea of running a service on a frequent basis using… AWS CodeBuild. I’ve done this myself before and it works well.

awsls: A List Command for AWS Resources — Got an AWS account? Unsure of exactly what’s running or lurking around in it? Enter awsls.

Using Amazon Kendra to Help Answer 10th Standard Science Questions for My Daughter — Kendra is a new AWS service for querying data using natural language and it’s very much “enterprise” given how much it costs.. Nonetheless, if you want to use it to help with your kid’s homework, it’s totally possible.

What a Typical 100% Serverless Architecture Looks Like in AWS — A 30,000 foot overview of what a complete, fully featured serverless app can look like, architecturally, ‘from above’.

How to Set Up AWS Organizations with Google Suite SAML SSO — How to setup simplified AWS account management, with centralized billing and resource sharing, authenticated with G Suite as identity provider.

Guardian: A New Tool to Automate Serverless Best Practices — sls-dev-tools is a suite of AWS Lambda-focused ‘devtools’ and it’s just gained a new member: Guardian is a new audit tool that does best practice auditing of your projects – this post digs into how it works.

sls-dev-tools v1.0: Think DevTools But for Serverless — “Think Chrome Dev Tools but for Serverless” say the team behind sls-dev-tools. They work with AWS Lambda and alongside tools like Serverless Framework or SAM.

▶  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.

Amazon's Arm-based Graviton2 Against AMD and Intel: Comparing Cloud Compute — “Amazon is doubling down on its silicon efforts, having announced the new Graviton2 processor last December, and planning public availability on EC2 in the next few months.”

How to Build a Complete Serverless Back End System — A complete start-to-end walkthrough at building an AWS Lambda powered backend complete with using S3 for storage and DynamoDB as a database. Aimed at those who haven’t gone through the process before.

RDS's Price Premium over EC2 Can Be More Than You'd Expect — RDS is Amazon’s Relational Database Service which can provide a fully managed Postgres (or MySQL, Oracle, and others) service on AWS. The increasing price premium of RDS over EC2, however, surprised this developer.

Faster Cloudfront Log Queries using AWS Athena and Serverless — How a Python-based Lambda function was used to partition Cloudfront logs so they could be queried 13x faster with AWS Athena.