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Node.js 20.x runtime now available in AWS Lambda

This post is written by Pascal Vogel, Solutions Architect, and Andrea Amorosi, Senior Solutions Architect. You can now develop AWS Lambda functions using the Node.js 20 runtime. This Node.js version is in active LTS status and ready for general use. To use this new version, specify a runtime parameter value of nodejs20.x when creating or […]

Converting Apache Kafka events from Avro to JSON using EventBridge Pipes

This post is written by Pascal Vogel, Solutions Architect, and Philipp Klose, Global Solutions Architect. Event streaming with Apache Kafka has become an important element of modern data-oriented and event-driven architectures (EDAs), unlocking use cases such as real-time analytics of user behavior, anomaly and fraud detection, and Internet of Things event processing. Stream producers and consumers […]

Introducing logging support for Amazon EventBridge Pipes

Today, AWS is announcing support for logging with EventBridge Pipes. Amazon EventBridge Pipes is a point to point integration solution that connects event producers and consumers with optional filter, transform, and enrichment steps. EventBridge Pipes reduces the amount of integration code builders must write and maintain when building event-driven applications. Popular integrations include connecting Amazon […]

The serverless attendee’s guide to AWS re:Invent 2023

AWS re:Invent 2023 is fast approaching, bringing together tens of thousands of Builders in Las Vegas in November. However, even if you can’t attend in person, you can catch up with sessions on-demand. Breakout sessions are lecture-style 60-minute informative sessions presented by AWS experts, customers, or partners. These sessions cover beginner (100 level) topics to […]

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Scaling improvements when processing Apache Kafka with AWS Lambda

AWS Lambda is improving the automatic scaling behavior when processing data from Apache Kafka event-sources. Lambda is increasing the default number of initial consumers, improving how quickly consumers scale up, and helping to ensure that consumers don’t scale down too quickly. There is no additional action that you must take, and there is no additional […]

Orchestrating dependent file uploads with AWS Step Functions

This post is written by Nelson Assis, Enterprise Support Lead, Serverless and Jevon Liburd, Technical Account Manager, Serverless Amazon S3 is an object storage service that many customers use for file storage. With the use of Amazon S3 Event Notifications or Amazon EventBridge customers can create workloads with event-driven architecture (EDA). This architecture responds to […]