I keep seeing people get confused on DynamoDB having 10GB partitions and thinking they need to design around it. This happened twice in the last week! Writing a long tweet to clarify. Two main takeaways: 1. The '10GB partition size' is rarely visible to you as a user. 2. You

New Post! AWS Lambda can pre-warm your functions to reduce the number of cold starts, even when used on-demand! This post defines Proactive Initialization, compares benchmarks from multiple runtimes/workloads, and shows you how to measure this in your own functions! Link 👇

At last, I can break out the news that... Powertools for AWS Lambda is now an official AWS team!!!!!!! This secures: 🤩 Long-term project sustainability 🤩 Feature parity across languages 🔥 New home docs.powertools.aws.dev 🚀 Plan beyond Lambda 1/ #aws #serverless

Software design is preparation for change.

what goes dev, must come ops

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I'm sad to report that the PostNL Event Broker project I'm responsible for has broken its two-year streak of no production incidents. In fact we failed to deliver about 40k events, and *did not even notice* until a customer told us 3 days later. So let's learn from it.

I've used this pattern before without knowing it has a name, now I know! It also reminds me of the "roll-up events" that Sheen Brisals talked about, which is the reverse of this - a summary event that comes after the individual events. serverlessland.com/event-driven-a…

Recognition is like a dog’s own tail. It can get dizzy chasing and is not sustainable. Go on about learning, applying, and genuinely helping others, and many things including recognition, slowly but surely, will quietly follow.

“AWS Lambda based Serverless Observability using OpenTelemetry” is now live.... The guide covers observability best practices for Lambda based serverless #AWS #AmazonWebServices #AWSBlogs #Cloud #CloudComputing #Serverless #Lambda #OpenTelemetry bit.ly/3FaORqi

I will be delivering two sessions at re:Invent 2023. BOA311 - Unlocking serverless web applications with AWS Lambda Web Adapter bit.ly/401tUYj SVS312 - Building serverless applications with Terraform bit.ly/48QsoMy Looking forward to seeing you in Las Vegas!

I took some time to organize my thoughts on Serverless, and wrote an article. This is the first time I've been able to fully express why I think Serverless is the future. When the shoulders of giants are offered, you'd do well to stand on them. lucvandonkersgoed.com/2023/10/13/if-…

🚀Amazon EventBridge launch announcement 🚀 We've rolled out an additional 22 new CloudWatch Metrics for Event Bus. Metrics include API latency, event payload size, as well as number of successful, failed, and throttled events. aws.amazon.com/about-aws/what…

The first post in the Serverless OpenTelemetry at scale series is out! In this installment we explore PostNL, the central event broker, the need for observability and the choice for OpenTelemetry. lucvandonkersgoed.com/2023/11/10/ser…

Hey! We launched a small but mighty library called AWS Integrated Application Test Kit to make integration testing easier for event-driven apps. It's in preview, and we would love your feedback on this! aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/… blogpost - aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/… #eventbridge

📣 Powertools for AWS Lambda (Python) 2.28 is out! 🔥 Request/Response data validation via types 🔥 OpenAPI & SwaggerUI for API Gateway REST/HTTP, ALB, Lambda Function URL, VPC Lattice 🫶 Inspired by FastAPI to ease migrations and more! github.com/aws-powertools… #aws #serverless

The DynamoDB Book Black Friday sale is live 🎉 Use the code 'DYNAMO2023' to get: - $20 off Basic - $40 off Plus - $80 off Premium - 35% off Team Licenses If you've been on the fence, this is a great time to pick it up + learn DynamoDB 🙂

This series on guitar set up by Gibson is pure gold. youtube.com/playlist?list=…

Okay, fine, I'll jump on the AI bandwagon.