At QCon London, Yan Cui, a serverless advocate at Lumigo, shared patterns for effective local development with AWS serverless technologies. The focus areas were testing approaches, deployment practices, and application environments. By Nsikan Essien ..read more

Zahan Malkani talked during QCon London 2024 about Meta’s journey from identifying the opportunity in the market to shipping the Threads application only five months later. The company leveraged Instagram's existing monolithic architecture and quickly iterated to create a new text-first microblogging service in record time. By Rafal Gancarz ..read more

Cloudflare recently announced the “production ready” switch on three products: their serverless SQL database D1, time series Workers Analytics Engine, and Hyperdrive. By Steef-Jan Wiggers ..read more

The Guardian created Pinboard, a discussion and asset-sharing tool integrated into a variety of content management platforms used by the company. The solution uses a range of technologies, including Typescript for coding the business logic, different serverless services for code execution, API endpoints, and GraphQL server, as well as AWS RDS (PostgreSQL) for storage. By Rafal Gancarz ..read more

Pinecone recently announced the public preview of its new serverless vector database, designed to reduce infrastructure management costs while improving the accuracy of generative AI applications By Renato Losio ..read more

AWS recently announced that AWS CloudShell now provides access to Docker Engine for its users. With this integration, containers can be locally prototyped and pushed to registries prior to deploying them on AWS. By Nsikan Essien ..read more

Meta's Engineering team have published a post explaining how they built the infrastructure for Threads, their new online social media and networking service. The decision to launch was abrupt, with the infrastructure teams having just two days' notice. However, the teams were confident in Meta's infrastructure's maturity and past performance to effectively support the app's rapid growth. By Matt Saunders ..read more

Recently, AWS notified existing customers running Amazon Aurora that Serverless v1 support will be discontinued, with the service scheduled to shut down within a year. The absence of scaling to zero in the newer Aurora Serverless v2 has raised concerns within the community regarding potential increased costs and the absence of a 'true' serverless relational database on AWS. By Renato Losio ..read more

Recently, AWS introduced a new Data API for Aurora Serverless v2 and Aurora provisioned database instances. Currently available for PostgreSQL clusters only, the Data API doesn't require persistent connections to a database cluster, addressing a long-awaited need among developers to simplify serverless deployments. By Renato Losio ..read more

AWS announced the availability of all AWS CloudFormation resource types within AWS Application Composer. This builds on the GA release which only allowed 13 CloudFormation resource types to be used. By Nsikan Essien ..read more