Amazon announced the General Availability of Aurora Serverless. Overall, I’m very impressed, but there are A LOT of limitations with this first release. Let's dive a little bit deeper and discuss the pros and cons of Aurora Serverless. I also want to dig into some of the technical details, pricing comparisons, and look more closely at the limitations.

Aurora Serverless: The Good, the Bad and the Scalable

Amazon Web Services finally released SQS triggers for Lambda functions, which is a pretty big deal. Until now, the AWS Simple Queue Service (SQS) was generally a pain to deal with for serverless applications. SQS triggers solve all of these problems. Listen to find out how you can use SQS triggers with Lambda to manage concurrency, throttle backend requests, and more effectively handle scaling.

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Serverless Consumers with Lambda and SQS Triggers

Serverless microservices allow us to do some pretty amazing things. This audio outlines 19 common patterns that are being used in production on AWS.

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Serverless Microservice Patterns for AWS

The benefits of third-party dependencies also come with a number of security risks. Let's see how FunctionShield can supercharge our serverless security.

Serverless Security: Locking Down Your Apps with FunctionShield

Microservices can be a bit confusing. This post outlines a few principles of microservices and explores how we might implement them using serverless.

https://www.jeremydaly.com/an-introduction-to-serverless-microservices/

An Introduction to Serverless Microservices

ServerlessNYC 2018 featured a diverse set of speakers talking about all things serverless. In this post I summarize the key takeaways and lessons learned.

Jeremy Daly