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Vercel Launches Edge Functions to Provide Compute at the Edge
Recently, Vercel announced the general availability of Edge Functions, which are either JavaScript, TypeScript, or WebAssembly functions. According to the company, these functions are generally both less expensive and faster than traditional Serverless Functions.
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AWS Previews Application Composer to Visualize and Create Serverless Workloads
At the recent re:Invent conference, AWS announced the preview of Application Composer, a visual designer to build serverless applications from multiple AWS services. The new option helps create the architecture by dragging, grouping, and connecting services in a visual canvas.
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Amazon Announces Preview of OpenSearch Serverless
AWS recently announced the preview of OpenSearch Serverless, a new option of OpenSearch service that automatically provisions and scales the resources for data ingestion and query responses. The minimum capacity required for the serverless option raised some concerns in the community.
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Enhanced Serverless Development with Terraform and AWS SAM
AWS announced support for local development and testing of AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) apps defined in Hashicorp Terraform configuration files. The functionality is provided via the AWS SAM Command Line Interface (CLI) and is currently released as a public-preview.
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Recap of AWS re:Invent 2022
After a virtual-only event in 2020 and a reduced-size 2021 edition, re:Invent was back last week in Las Vegas with over 50,000 attendees for the 11th edition. During multiple sessions and keynotes at the largest AWS yearly conference, the cloud provider announced new services and features, with the focus more on business solutions and data options than new building blocks.
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AWS Lambda Now Has Support for Node.js 18 Runtime
Recently AWS announced that Node.js version 18 supports its Function as a Service (FaaS) AWS Lambda and is in active LTS status (ready for general use).
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AWS Lambda Telemetry API Provides Enhanced Observability Data
AWS has released the AWS Lambda Telemetry API, a new way for extensions to receive enhanced function telemetry from the Lambda service. The new API simplifies collecting traces, logs, and custom and enhanced metrics from Lambda functions. Along with several example extensions, there are several extensions available from third parties including Datadog, Dynatrace, Serverless, and Sumo Logic.
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Momento Announces Serverless Cache Service
The startup Momento recently emerged from stealth mode launching a serverless cache. The new service is generally available and offers a highly available cache with an on-demand pricing model based on data transferred in/out.
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AWS Introduces AWS Parameters and Secrets Lambda Extension to Improve Performances and Security
AWS recently announced the Parameters and Secrets Lambda Extension, a new way for developers to retrieve parameters from Systems Manager Parameter Store and secrets from Secrets Manager. The Lambda extension caches parameters and secrets, reducing latency and costs.
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How Honeycomb Used Serverless to Speed up Their Servers: Jessica Kerr at QCon San Francisco 2022
Jessica Kerr, a principal developer evangelist at Honeycomb, spoke at QCon San Francisco 2022 on their journey of using AWS Lambda to speed up their production application and how the serverless architecture helped Honeycomb achieve their product and user experience vision. Kerr closed her talk by emphasizing, "Technology and Architecture don't matter unless users are happy."
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AWS Lambda Supports Event Filtering for Amazon MSK, Kafka and Amazon MQ
Amazon recently announced that AWS Lambda supports content filtering options for Amazon MSK, Self-Managed Kafka, Amazon MQ for Apache ActiveMQ, and Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ as event sources. The new options extend the filtering to data store and broker services and reduce traffic to Lambda functions, simplifying application logic and reducing costs.
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Azure Adds Sustainability Guidance to Well-Architected Framework
During the recent Ignite conference, Microsoft announced new technical guidance within the Azure Well-Architected Framework (WAF) to help customers and partners achieve their sustainability goals.
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Google Cloud Deploy Adds Deployment Verification, Support for Cloud Run
Google has added deployment verification capabilities to its Google Cloud Deploy tool. This new feature is in preview release and makes use of recent updates to Skaffold. Along with this announcement, Google has also added support for Cloud Run to Google Cloud Deploy.
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Cloudflare Previews Serverless Database D1 Adding Transactions
Cloudflare recently unveiled more details about the serverless database D1, the new service supporting SQLite to store and query relational data globally with low latency. D1 is the first SQL database from the content delivery network company and will support transactions.
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Cloudflare R2 Storage Generally Available
Cloudflare recently announced the general availability of R2 storage, an S3-compatible object storage without egress charges. The new service provides dynamic functionalities integrating with Cloudflare Workers.