AWS now support deploying Lambda directly from GitHub Actions. While this sounds like a good idea it doesn’t solve most of the problem, and it makes CI/CD breakages more likely.
Cicada Note #5 - There is little standardization in the Javascript world on how to layout a project repository, not even for serverless TypeScript apps. This is how I do it, starting with the project root directory.
Cicada is an application that is both a full example of building a real application using Serverless techniques on AWS, and also a practical monitoring tool for GitHub. This article introduces Cicada, and Cicada Notes.
I was recently a guest on the ThoughtWorks Tech Podcast to give my thoughts about the state of Serverless today. We covered a lot, but the main conversation points to me were:
The second of two articles about AWS Lambda SnapStart, this looks at how developers can update their existing Java Lambda applications to use SnapStart, and what performance improvements they might expect to see.
