[Be a Better Dev Newsletter] #004 - Upcoming Course and Spring Videos Recap
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Hi all, I wanted to briefly share a new course that I'm working on along with a recap of some of my more popular recent videos this past Spring. In terms of the course, I've recently began working on a Step Functions masterclass. Step Functions are getting more and more popular as developers look to coordinate actions between distributed systems while ensuring reliability. Even personally, I've seen them crop up at work more and more including in a project I'm working on right now. I'm excited to see such widespread adoption of one of my favourite services and I'm happy to share that the course I'm working on will cover Step Functions in detail. I'm in the initial phases of course development and trying to finalize content. If you have any ideas of what you'd like covered or any recommendations in general please do let me know! The presentation style will likely be similar to my recent course AWS Learning Accelerator. More news on this to come. Spring Videos RecapSpring was a busy month and there were videos covering multiple topics across AWS. Check them out below. Video 1 - Lambda Destinations Lambda Destinations are a useful tool to deliver the results of asynchronous Lambda Function invocations. Normally when invoking a Lambda asynchronously, it's a fire and forget operation. But with Destinations, you can configure it to deliver the results of failed / successful invocations to different AWS services. Video 2 - VPC Resource Map VPC Resource Map is a new addition to the VPC section of the console that lets you visualize the topology of your network. No longer trying to make sense of how everything is connected looking at ip ranges and route tables. Now you can rely on this handy visualization for quick and easy understanding of your VPC. Video 3 - Parameter Store With feature flags getting more and more popular store, many developers look to a managed way to control these flags in the cloud. Parameter store is perfect for storing simple key/value configuration values to be read at application runtime. Video 4 - Step Functions + Lambda The bread and butter of Step Functions is the integration with AWS Lambda. Learn about how to use Lambdas to "glue" logic together in your step function in this step by step video. Video 5 - SQL on NoSQL - DynamoDB + Athena NoSQL lovers are quick to tell you how fast their query times are and how easily their database scales. But sometimes, SQL is king. In this video, I show you how to export your DynamoDB table into S3 and then read off it using SQL with Amazon Athena. Video 6 - Weird Throttling Behaviour of SQS + Lambda This is a weird one that any user of SQS + Lambda should be aware of. It was enough to almost blow up a work application and it could happen to you. Video 7 - Serverless to Monolith with Prime Video Tech You've probably heard about the fuss of specific example where a Prime Video tech team moved from a serverless architecture to a monolith. Learn about what drove the decision and my take on the matter. Video 8 - Dropbox Cloud Migration Based on a 2020 article, this video dives in to a on-prem to cloud migration story. Learn how Dropbox outgrew their on prem cluster and graduated to a DynamoDB/S3 combo for hot/cold storage of metadata. |
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