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AWS Lambda Introduces Recursive Loop Detection for SQS, SNS, and Invoke API
AWS recently announced a recursion control feature in AWS Lambda that detects and stops Lambda functions running in a recursive or infinite loop.
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AWS Introduces Remote Invoke Feature in AWS SAM CLI, Enabling Seamless Testing of Lambda Functions
AWS recently announced the launch of the remote invoke feature in AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) Command Line Interface (CLI) for AWS Lambda, allowing developers to quickly invoke their AWS Lambda functions deployed to the AWS cloud.
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AWS Step Functions Introduces Versions and Aliases for Enhanced Deployment Resiliency
Recently, AWS announced the availability of versions and aliases in Step Functions to improve resiliency for deployments of serverless workflows.
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QCon New York 2023: Living on the Edge with Erica Pisani
Erica Pisani, Sr. software engineer at Netlify, presented Living on the Edge at QCon New York 2023. Pisani discussed: edge computing anatomy; communication between users, edge locations and origin servers; various edge computing challenges with corresponding solutions; and introduced the AWS Snowball Edge Device. Pisani spoke to InfoQ to learn more about edge computing.
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AWS Signer Simplifies Signing and Verifying Container Images
AWS has released AWS Signer Container Image Signing (AWS Signer) to provide native AWS support for signing and verifying container images in registries such as Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR). AWS Signer manages code signing certificates, public and private keys, and provides lifecycle management tooling.
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AWS Lambda Now Supports Ruby 3.2 Runtime
AWS continues to bring support for new versions of runtimes for AWS Lambda. Recently, the company announced the support of the Ruby 3.2 runtime.
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The Guardian Optimizes Mobile Push-Notification Delivery Architecture
The technology team at the Guardian has taken on making mobile push notifications faster to improve readers' experience. The original architecture, optimized for concurrency, has been suffering from delays in notification delivery. The engineers used improved observability to make significant gains through experimentation.
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AWS Lambda Introduces Response Payload Streaming
Amazon recently announced that AWS Lambda functions can progressively stream response payloads back to the client. The new feature improves performance for web and mobile applications and is currently available for Node.js 14.x and newer runtimes, as well as custom ones.
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AWS Application Composer to Visualize and Create Serverless Workloads Now Generally Available
AWS Application Composer, a visual builder that enables users to compose and configure serverless applications from AWS services backed by deployment-ready infrastructure as code (IaC), is now generally available (GA).
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AWS Lambda Supports Powertools for .NET to Simplify Observability
AWS recently announced that the open-source library Lambda Powertools now supports .NET. The developer library helps implement observability when running Lambda functions based on .NET 6 or above, reducing the amount of custom code.
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New CloudWatch Metrics for AWS Lambda Asynchronous Invocations
AWS recently added three new Amazon CloudWatch metrics for AWS Lambda: AsyncEventsReceived, AsyncEventAge, and AsyncEventsDropped, to monitor the performance of asynchronous event processing.
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Faster Startup Time and Lower Memory Usage: New CRT HTTP Client in AWS SDK for Java
AWS recently announced the general availability of the Common Runtime (CRT) HTTP Client in the AWS SDK for Java 2.x. The new asynchronous client provides faster SDK startup time and a smaller memory footprint improving Lambda serverless workloads.
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AWS Gives Developers More Control over Lambda Function Runtime with Runtime Management Controls
AWS recently introduced runtime management controls, which provide more visibility and control when Lambda applies runtime updates to functions.
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AWS Lambda Now Supports Maximum Concurrency for SQS as Event Source
AWS Lambda now provides a way to control the maximum number of concurrent functions invoked by Amazon SQS as an event source. Setting the Maximum Concurrency, developers can determine the concurrency of the functions processing messages in individual SQS queues, simplifying the scalability of serverless applications.
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AWS Introduces Step Functions Distributed Map for Large-Scale Parallel Data Processing
AWS recently announced a distributed map for Step Functions, a solution for large-scale parallel data processing. Optimized for S3, the new feature of the AWS orchestration service targets interactive and highly parallel serverless data processing workflows.