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We are building a data hub within AWS where we obviously use several S3 buckets. As the whole data hub is built upon serverless technologies we also use several Lambdas and sometimes they get triggered when new files arrive in one of our S3 buckets.Bucket notificationsAWS offers S3 bucket notifications for sending e...

Scaling up a Serverless Web Crawler with Step Functions — Creating your own custom search engine can be both fun and useful (we have our own which helps us produce these newsletters!) but how could you approach crawling and indexing Web content in a serverless way? Here’s the basics of breaking down the main crawling process and how AWS Step Functions can orchestrate things. (Amazon...

Monitoring Java Virtual Machine Garbage Collection on AWS Lambda — Even at their best, JVM-based apps could rarely be called lightweight so monitoring how much memory they’re using and how they’re running is essential especially in the serverless context. Here’s a look at how to get JVM-based Lambda apps to emit relevant data that you can collect and analyze.

What a Typical 100% Serverless Architecture Looks Like in AWS — It’s so huge we could only fit half of it into our graphic above! 😄 This is an interesting 30,000 foot overview of what a complete, fully featured serverless app can look like, architecturally, ‘from above’.

AWS Adds Serverless 'Lens' to Its AWS Well-Architected Tool — Well-Architected Tool is an AWS tool for reviewing the state of your workloads and comparing them to AWS best practices and now you can use it to review your serverless practices too. Think of it as a sort of self-guided diagnosis tool for serverless best practices if using AWS.

Building a Serverless FHIR Interface on AWS — If the term FHIR isn’t familiar to you, join the club! It stands for Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources and is an interoperability standard for sharing healthcare data.

Ten Things Serverless Architects Should Know — Such as API and microservices design principles, workflow orchestration, CI/CD patterns and more.

Understand AWS Serverless Architecture in 10 Minutes — A neat explanation of the various elements on AWS that can help you when architecting an AWS-based serverless app, including the various things that can trigger Lambda functions.