Serverless
DynamoDB Streams is not an outbox
A stream handler isn't an outbox. The transactional outbox pattern is the natural way to solve the dual write problem, but it can be trickier than you think to implement correctly.
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Serverless
Send your events later
Turn deferred event delivery into an EventBridge primitive so any app can schedule work without managing EventBridge Scheduler itself.
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Building Serverless Applications That Scale The Perfect Amount
Designing applications for the right amount of scale is a huge architectural task. With serverless part of it is handled for you, but some of it you're on your own.
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Application development
Is Disaster Recovery Worth It In Serverless Applications?
Serverless already has high availability out of the box. Do you need to add on top of that?
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Application development
Going Serverless? Governance Is Everything
When deciding to go serverless, you need to put up some guardrails to protect yourself. If you don't, you might find yourself in a hole you can't get out of.
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