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Julian Wood

Author: Julian Wood

Julian Wood is a Senior Developer Advocate for the AWS Serverless team. He loves helping developers and builders learn about, and love, how serverless technologies can transform the way they build and run applications at any scale. Julian was an infrastructure architect and manager in global enterprises and start-ups for more than 25 years before going all-in on serverless at AWS.

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Python 3.13 runtime now available in AWS Lambda

This post is written by Julian Wood, Principal Developer Advocate, and Leandro Cavalcante Damascena, Senior Solutions Architect Engineer. AWS Lambda now supports Python 3.13 as both a managed runtime and container base image. Python is a popular language for building serverless applications. The Python 3.13 release includes a number of changes to the language, the implementation, and the […]

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Introducing an enhanced local IDE experience for AWS Lambda developers

AWS Lambda is introducing an enhanced local IDE experience to simplify Lambda-based application development. The new features help developers to author, build, debug, test, and deploy Lambda applications more efficiently in their local IDE when using Visual Studio Code (VS Code). Overview The IDE experience is part of the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code. […]

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Introducing an enhanced in-console editing experience for AWS Lambda

AWS Lambda is introducing a new code editing experience in the AWS console based on the popular Code-OSS, Visual Studio Code Open Source code editor. This brings the familiar Visual Studio Code interface and many of the features directly into the Lambda console, allowing developers to use their preferred coding environment and tools in the cloud. […]

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AWS Lambda introduces recursive loop detection APIs

This post is written by James Ngai, Senior Product Manager, AWS Lambda, and Aneel Murari, Senior Specialist SA, Serverless. Today, AWS Lambda is announcing new recursive loop detection APIs that allow you to set recursive loop detection configuration on individual Lambda functions. This allows you to turn off recursive loop detection on functions that intentionally use […]

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Serverless ICYMI Q2 2024

Welcome to the 26th edition of the AWS Serverless ICYMI (in case you missed it) quarterly recap. Every quarter, we share all the most recent product launches, feature enhancements, blog posts, webinars, live streams, and other interesting things that you might have missed! In case you missed our last ICYMI, check out what happened last […]

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Serverless ICYMI Q1 2024

Welcome to the 25th edition of the AWS Serverless ICYMI (in case you missed it) quarterly recap. Every quarter, we share all the most recent product launches, feature enhancements, blog posts, webinars, live streams, and other interesting things that you might have missed! In case you missed our last ICYMI, check out what happened last […]

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Introducing the .NET 8 runtime for AWS Lambda

This post is written by Beau Gosse, Senior Software Engineer and Paras Jain, Senior Technical Account Manager. AWS Lambda now supports .NET 8 as both a managed runtime and container base image. With this release, Lambda developers can benefit from .NET 8 features including API enhancements, improved Native Ahead of Time (Native AOT) support, and […]

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Re-platforming Java applications using the updated AWS Serverless Java Container

This post is written by Dennis Kieselhorst, Principal Solutions Architect. The combination of portability, efficiency, community, and breadth of features has made Java a popular choice for businesses to build their applications for over 25 years. The introduction of serverless functions, pioneered by AWS Lambda, changed what you need in a programming language and runtime […]

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Using generative infrastructure as code with Application Composer

This post is written by Anna Spysz, Frontend Engineer, AWS Application Composer AWS Application Composer launched in the AWS Management Console one year ago, and has now expanded to the VS Code IDE as part of the AWS Toolkit. This includes access to a generative AI partner that helps you write infrastructure as code (IaC) […]

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Managing AWS Lambda runtime upgrades

This post is written by Julian Wood, Principal Developer Advocate, and Dan Fox, Principal Specialist Serverless Solutions Architect. AWS Lambda supports multiple programming languages through the use of runtimes. A Lambda runtime provides a language-specific execution environment, which provides the OS, language support, and additional settings, such as environment variables and certificates that you can access from […]