Weekly update 28

Hi, welcome to another weekly update. Bye bye, DAZN! Yesterday was my last day at DAZN. Handed in my laptop, bagged my slippers, this is it. It's been a pleasure @dazneng! See you guys around ?? — Yan Cui (@theburningmonk) June 21, 2019 I’m fortunate and grateful to have had the chance to play a …

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AWS Lambda: how to detect and stop accidental infinite recursions

Lambda makes it easy to build event-driven architectures. Each function only needs to look after its own responsibilities. We chain them together through APIs, queues, streams, and other event sources. It’s a good way to build complex systems out of simple components. We need only managed services, and we only pay for them when we …

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Weekly update 27

Hi, welcome to another weekly update. We welcome Trek10 as our sponsor for June! It is my pleasure to welcome Trek10 as our sponsor for this month, let’s hear from them. Serverless computing can seriously reduce TCO and time to market. But serverless is a new discipline. The best practices are emerging, and even large …

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ICYMI: five updates you’ve missed about Serverless Step Functions

Over the last 6 months, we have made the Serverless Step Functions plugin better and more useful. Here are the most impactful changes, in case you missed it! Support for intrinsic function One of the main pain points of using the plugin has long been that you needed to use fully-formed ARNs. As of v1.18.0 …

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Weekly update 26

Hi, welcome to another weekly update. New posts You are wrong about serverless vendor lock-in. In this guest post for Lumigo, I challenge the debate on serverless and vendor lock-in. First of all, technology choices create coupling and moving cost but you’re never truly locked in as the option is always there to rewrite the …

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How to include Serverless Repository apps in serverless.yml

Over the past year, the Serverless Application Repository (SAR) service has improved a lot. I have grown to enjoy it more and more, and have contributed a few applications myself: lambda-janitor: cron job to delete old, unused versions of all Lambda functions in the region to free up storage space. auto-subscribe-log-group-to-arn: subscribes new and existing …

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CloudFormation protip: use !Sub instead of !Join

CloudFormation supports a number of intrinsic functions and Fn::Join (or !Join) is often used to construct parameterised names and paths. The Serverless framework, for instance, uses it extensively. A quick look in a CloudFormation it generates I can see Fn::Join used for: IAM policy names IAM role names IAM principals API Gateway URIs Resource ARNs and …

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