🦸 Serverless Superhero

Our serverless superhero this week is Paul Santus, software architect and AWS community builder. Paul is an active member of the serverless community and shares some of his thoughts through blogging. He has a great grasp on the value of serverless and I love the effort he gives to educate others. Thanks for everything you do, Paul!

💯 Spotlight

I remember when MFA first started becoming popular, I had a big problem with a new step blocking me from signing in. Eventually I saw why it was important and was happy it was there. The first time I saw a passwordless login, I thought it was a crazy idea and wanted to shame the person who thought of it. But over time, the idea has grown on me and I actually prefer over a traditional password login. Arpad Toth published a fantastic article last week on how to use a YubiKey for passwordless auth in Cognito so you can go passwordless in your apps. It looks like it would have been a tricky path to figure out on your own, but Arpad lays it out really nicely in his article.

🔥 My Favorite Content

I normally like to learn new things one at a time. Maybe introduce myself slowly to a new piece of tech. But if you’re one of those “just throw everything at me at once” people, you’ll love the blog post from Neeraj Lagwankar from last week. His post, titled Using Cloudflare Durable Objects with SQL Storage, D1, and Drizzle ORM, throws out a lot of technologies I haven’t used before, but explains them really, really well. This article is a lot of Cloudflare tech, but the way Neeraj has written it makes it feel approachable. It’s a great, dense article to help you get started with “what the kids are using these days”.

Matt Martz wrote a blog post explaining how to build a Discord bot with Lambda. I thought you could only build bots with stateful compute, which is what I did with Andres Moreno last year when we built an RSS feed generator. Turns out it is way easier than I thought to get started! Matt walks you through all the necessary steps, from configuring inside of Discord to even building a construct for all of it in the CDK 💙

Clearly I am way behind with the recent innovations coming out with AI. I know what agents are, but have never used/built one. But I just saw a concept last week, highlighted by Nwachukwu Chibuike that blew my mind. Apparently multi-agent collaboration is a real thing, and Nwachukwu shows us how to build it with Bedrock. It seems like we’re getting to the point where we have an entire virtual office working for us. Crazy.

I joined Andres Moreno and Austen Collins last week on the Believe in Serverless livestream to talk about the Serverless Container Framework. The stream was mostly an awesome demo from Austen showing the capabilities they’ve built to seamlessly change your compute type. I loved everything about it, it’s awesome.

💡 Tip of the Week

Alright, David Boyne just released a feature in EventCatalog that is revolutionary. We already know EventCatalog is the best tool to document and discover your event-driven architectures, but now you have the ability to talk to it to understand it better. This is just… 🤯

🐣 New Releases

Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet is now available in Amazon Bedrock. I’m always impressed how quickly Bedrock is keeping up.

AWS CodePipeline got a new console experience. I’ve heard mixed reviews on the change. What do you think?

Last Words

It’s good to be back, but I’m feeling a little out of the loop. What has been going on with you? Is there anything new you’re excited about or working on? Let me know!

If you’d like to make a recommendation for the serverless superhero or for an article you found especially useful, send me a message on Twitter, LinkedIn, or email.

Happy coding!

Allen