Thread by @NaveenS16

In this thread, I'll walk you through @julian_wood's multi-part series of posts on "Building well-architected serverless applications"

#Serverless #FaaS #AWS #AWSLambda #ServerlessArchitecture #ServerlessLens
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1⃣ Building well-architected serverless applications: Introduction

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2⃣ Operational Excellence: Understanding serverless application health

Part 1: Out of the box metrics and alerts; structured and centralized logging

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Part 2: Custom metrics and distributed tracing

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3⃣ Operational Excellence – Approaching serverless application lifecycle management

Part 1: Using infrastructure as code with version control

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Part 2: Deploying to multiple stages using temporary environments, and rollout deployments

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Part 3: Configuration management, CI/CD, and managing function runtime deprecation

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4⃣ Security – Controlling access to serverless APIs

Part 1: Authentication and authorization for public and private API endpoints

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Part 2: Amazon Cognito user and identity pools, JSON web tokens, API keys, and usage plans

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Part 3: Separating authenticated users into logical groups

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5⃣ Security – Managing serverless security boundaries

Part 1: Resource polices, controlling and blocking network access, and audit tools

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Part 2: Using temporary credentials, smaller single-purpose functions, and auditing permissions

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6⃣ Security – Implementing serverless application security

Part 1: Security awareness documentation, inspecting code dependencies, and validating inbound events

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Part 2: Securely storing, auditing, and rotating secrets used in application code

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7⃣ Reliability – Regulating inbound request rates

Part 1: Throttling and performance testing

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Part 2: API quotas and mechanisms to protect non-scalable resources

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8⃣ Reliability – Building resiliency into your serverless application

Part 1: Managing failures using retries, dead-letter-queues, and using state machines

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Part 2: Idempotency, scaling patterns at burst rates, limits

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9⃣ Performance Efficiency – Optimizing serverless application performance

Part 1: Optimizing function startup time, minimizing deployment package size

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Part 2: Concurrency and asynchronous processing, optimum capacity units

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Part 3: Integrating with managed services, optimizing access patterns, caching

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