SVS401: Best Practices for Serverless Developers

Resources for SVS401: Best practices for serverless developers

Abstract: Are you wanting to take advantage of the full power of serverless architectures for your production workloads? Are you wondering how events help your applications scale? Are you wanting to tune your applications for higher performance and lower cost? This session provides architectural best practices, optimizations, and useful shortcuts that the experts use, to build secure, high-scale, and high-performance.

Best practices for serverless developers

AWS re:Invent 2023

Previous talk at re:Invent 2023 which includes additional, also relevant best-practices.

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Best practices of advanced serverless developers

AWS re:Invent 2021

Previous talk at re:Invent 2021 which includes additional, also relevant best-practices.

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Serverless evolution

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10 Years of Serverless with AWS Lambda and Amazon ECS

Amazon EventBridge announces up to 94% improvement in end-to-end latency for Event Buses

Amazon EventBridge now supports AWS AppSync as a target of EventBridge Buses

Announcing AWS AppSync Events: serverless WebSocket APIs to power real-time web and mobile experiences at any scale

Service-full serverless

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Choreography and orchestration

AWS Step Functions Supports 200 AWS Services To Enable Easier Workflow Automation

GenAI tool use (function calling)

Serverless & Event-driven Patterns for GenAI

Building cost-effective AWS Step Functions workflows

Serverless workflows collection

Amazon EventBridge Pipes

Serverless compute

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Lambda execution environment lifecycle

Understanding AWS Lambda scaling and throughput

Lambda event source mappings

AWS SDK for JavaScript v3

AWS Lambda Functions Powered by AWS Graviton2 Processor

AWS Compute Optimizer

Amazon CloudWatch embedded metric format

Run Amazon ECS or Fargate tasks with Step Functions

Improving startup performance with Lambda SnapStart

Best practices for advanced serverless developers

AWS re:Invent 2022

Previous talk at re:Invent 2022 which includes additional, also relevant best-practices.

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Production-ready serverless service

Links from talk

Amazon SQS and Lambda best practices

Error handling deep dive

AWS SDK Retry behavior:

Idempotency deep dive

CloudWatch Dashboard Building Guide

SQS->Lambda->S3 Complete GitHub Repository

Collection of blueprints

Serverless service backend blueprint

Streamlining serverless governance by codifying architectural blueprints

Best practices for accelerating development with serverless blueprints

Serverlessland.com

Serverless Terraform

Open constructs

Hexagonal architecture

AWS Lambda Powertools

AWS Lambda Powertuning

Presented by:

Julian Wood

I help developers and builders learn about and love how serverless technologies can transform the way they build and run applications.

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Ran Isenberg

Ran Isenberg is an AWS Serverless hero and a principal software architect at CyberArk, where he designs and builds Serverless services. Ran is a serverless advocate passionate about CI/CD and AWS CDK. Ran maintains a blog, ranthebuilder.cloud, where he shares his knowledge and experience in the Serverless world and thoughts about technology in general.