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$10B crypto developer platform Alchemy buys coding bootcamp in first-ever acquisition

TechCrunch

For Alchemy, the acquisition seems like a fit considering the company’s goal is to be the starting point for developers looking to build apps on the blockchain. It’s often referred to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) of web3 and says it has seen a 10x increase in the number of teams building on its platform over the past 12 months.

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Announcing Stackery-Native Provisioned Concurrency Support

Stackery

Any time AWS Lambdas needed to scale up, the first invocation of each service instance took longer to handle its request than those that followed. Sending ‘warm up’ requests to your Lambda before big traffic spikes. Giving more resources to Lambdas. Re-engineering your Lambdas to start up faster (e.g.

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On Building a Platform Team

Honeycomb

There’s a whole class of things you just don’t have to think about if, say, your system is running on lambdas. Vendors vs. internal platform teams. What’s the difference between a good vendor and a good internal team building you those abstractions? Doing platform right is something that can make or break your company.

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Netlify Changelog October 2020

Netlify

Visibility into build status. Additional status indicators for builds that are in your queue. On the team Build page in the UI, see build minutes used last billing period. Creating an API with AWS: Lambda, DynamoDB, and API Gateway. Check it out. Billing transparency. Metrics-driven engineering.

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Five Ways Serverless Changes DevOps

Stacks on Stacks

This means the environment management needs of a serverless team shift significantly. To repeat what I wrote a few paragraphs ago, serverless teams build applications by combining managed services that have the most desirable scaling, cost, and durability characteristics. However, here’s another big shift.

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The Future of Ops Careers

Honeycomb

Have you seen Lambda: A Serverless Musical ? But yet we don’t call it “outsourcing” when we rely on companies like AWS to run our datacenter and provide compute or storage, or when we use Google apps for our email, documents, and spreadsheets? If not, you really have to. That work isn’t going away. Yes, I’m going to improve your… ops!

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21 Best Practices for Migrating to React JS

Modus Create

Invest in your team; train the team early in the process. “Build one to throw away” shouldn’t refer to your flagship product. Invest in a week-long training, and even better, let the team build a prototype of the most important feature. Good examples are AWS Lambda or Cloudflare Workers.