#101: Moving from Serverless to Monoliths

In this edition, we're exploring the age-old debate of using singular nouns for database table names, and diving into why Amazon Prime made a surprising move from serverless to monolithic architecture. We'll also discuss Dockerfile limitations and their alternatives, and delve into the fascinating world of (Im)mutable Infrastructure with Terraform.

If you're interested in learning about MySQL's FOREIGN KEY implementation and its quirks, I've got you covered. Plus, for those looking to dive into serverless on AWS, there's a step-by-step learning series tailored just for you.

This week's exciting open-source projects include a ChatGPT plugin that empowers users to create websites and Lambda functions with ease, a handy tool to store and sync CloudFormation templates with your AWS account, and IAMbic, a multi-cloud IAM control plane to streamline your cloud Identity and Access Management.

So, grab your favorite beverage and get ready to explore this week's treasure trove of DevOps knowledge!

📖 POSTS OF THE WEEK

"Use singular nouns for database table names" - If you have a table that stores users, should the table be called user or users? - Read more »

"When Serverless goes wrong" - Have you ever seen what happens when Scalability boundaries clash? This practical post got you covered - Read more »

"Move over, Dockerfiles! The new way to craft containers" - Look at some alternatives for crafting containers, like ko, Bazel, Nix, and apko - Read more »

"Best practices for building secure AWS Lambda Functions" - Best practices and the functionality you need to build a robust and secure production-ready Lambda function - Read more »

"(Im)mutable Infrastructure and Terraform" - Moving away from count to for_each meta-argument for iterated resources is not going to miraculously solve all your problems - Read more »

"Things that don’t work well with MySQL’s FOREIGN KEY implementation" - Concerns with MySQL's foreign key implementation and the reasons for avoiding foreign key constraints - Read more »

"Learn serverless on AWS step-by-step" - In this series you'll learn the basics of serverless on AWS, to enable you to build your own serverless applications, starting with AWS Cognito - Read more »

🛠 PROJECTS OF THE WEEK

1️⃣ A ChatGPT plugin that allows users to create websites and Lambda functions using ChatGPT - Learn more »

2️⃣ Automatic Serverless API generation from your code, support for multiple programming languages, and integrated file and database storage solutions - Learn more »

3️⃣ Super simple CI/CD framework with repeatable builds that you write once and run anywhere – laptop, remote, or any CI - Learn more »

4️⃣ This tool helps you to store CloudFormation templates in a Git repo and sync template changes to CloudFormation stacks in your AWS account - Learn more »

5️⃣ End-to-end sync of Linear and GitHub. This allows contributors to work with open source projects without having to give them access to your internal Linear team - Learn more »

6️⃣ Easily manage and streamline cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM) with IAMbic, a multi-cloud IAM control plane - Learn more »

📰 NEWSWORTHY STORIES

"DevOps threat matrix" - Read more »

"Slack said it had 100% uptime. Did it really?" - Read more »

"How (not) to spend $15000 per month with AWS Athena" - Read more »

"Amazon Prime moving from Serverless to monoliths" - Read more »

💡 THREAD OF THE WEEK

😂 MEMES OF THE WEEK

Serverless is the silver bullet to all your problems 🙃

💼 OPEN JOBS OF THE WEEK

Hand-picked DevOps opportunities to work from home, remotely, freelance, full-time, part-time, contract and internships - See more »

Lead Kubernetes Engineer @MongoDB
Kubernetes, MongoDB, Docker
🌎 Remote, anywhere
Read more »

Site Reliability Engineer @Infracloud
AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes
🌎 Remote, India
Read more »

DevOps Team Leader @Kaltura
AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform
🌎 Remote, USA
Read more »

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