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Blog posts

AWS Lambda Cookbook — Following best practices with Powertools for AWS Lambda

Author: Ran Isenberg

A collection of articles explaining in detail how Powertools for AWS Lambda helps with a Serverless adoption strategy and its challenges.

Making all your APIs idempotent

Author: Michael Walmsley

This article dives into what idempotency means for APIs, their use cases, and how to implement them.

Deep dive on Powertools for AWS Lambda Idempotency feature

Author: Michael Walmsley

This article describes how to best calculate your idempotency token, implementation details, and how to handle idempotency in RESTful APIs.

Developing AWS Lambda functions with Powertools for AWS Lambda

Author: Stephan Huber

This article walks through how to add Powertools to an existing project, covers Tracer, Logger, Metrics, and JSON Schema Validation.

Speed-up event-driven projects

Author: Joris Conijn

This article walks through a sample AWS EventBridge cookiecutter template presented at the AWS Community Day Netherlands 2022.

Implementing Feature Flags with AWS AppConfig and Powertools for AWS Lambda

Author: Ran Isenberg

This article walks through how CyberArk uses Powertools to implement Feature Flags with AWS AppConfig

Designing for Idempotency

Author: Valentin Dreismann

This article outlines the importance of idempotency, key considerations and trade-offs when implementing in your systems.

Implementing Idempotency in Serverless Architectures

Author: Seongwoo Choi

This blog post focuses on the importance of idempotency in distributed services and explores streamlined idempotent request flows. It provides guidance on idempotency tests using duplicate requests.

Creating a serverless API using Powertools for AWS Lambda and AWS CDK

This blog post showcases how to use AWS CDK and Powertools for AWS Lambda, along with Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda, to effortlessly deploy scalable infrastructure with just a few lines of code.

Author: Thomas Taylor

Creating a serverless API using Powertools for AWS Lambda and CDK

Boost App Engagement with AWS CloudWatch Metrics & Powertools for AWS

This article will guide you through personalizing observability by integrating CloudWatch metrics with Powertools for AWS Lambda into mobile push notifications, a strategy that significantly enhances mobile app engagement

Author: Nathan Hanks

Creating a serverless API using Powertools for AWS Lambda and CDK

Streaming data with AWS Lambda & Powertools for AWS Lambda

This article will walk you through using Powertools for AWS Lambda to optimize your Lambda function when streaming large files from S3.

Author: Tom Reid

Streaming data with AWS Lambda & Powertools for AWS Lambda

Videos

Building a resilient input handling with Parser

Author: Ran Isenberg

When building applications with AWS Lambda it is critical to verify the data structure and validate the input due to the multiple different sources that can trigger them. In this session Ran Isenberg (CyberArk) will present one of the interesting features of Powertools for AWS Lambda for python: the parser.

In this session you will learn how to increase code quality, extensibility and testability, boost you productivity and ship rock solid apps to production.

Talk DEV to me | Feature Flags with Powertools for AWS Lambda

Author: Ran Isenberg

A deep dive in the Feature Flags feature along with tips and tricks.

Level Up Your CI/CD With Smart AWS Feature Flags

Author: Ran Isenberg

Feature flags can improve your CI/CD process by enabling capabilities otherwise not possible, thus making them an enabler of DevOps and a crucial part of continuous integration. Partial rollouts, A/B testing, and the ability to quickly change a configuration without redeploying code are advantages you gain by using features flags.

In this talk, you will learn the added value of using feature flags as part of your CI/CD process and how Powertools for AWS Lambda can help with that.

AWS re:invent 2023 - OPN305 - The Pragmatic Serverless Python Developer

Author: Heitor Lessa & Ran Isenberg

Are you developing AWS Lambda functions with Python? Always looking for tools to make you more productive? What if you could hear directly from practitioners?

This session covers an opinionated approach to Python project setup, testing, profiling, deployments, and operations. Learn about many open source tools, including Powertools for AWS Lambda—a toolkit that can help you implement serverless best practices and increase developer velocity.

Join to discover tools and patterns for effective serverless development with Python. To maximize your learning experience, the session includes a sample application that implements what’s described.

Workshops

Introduction to Powertools for AWS Lambda

Author: Michael Walmsley

This repo contains documentation for a live coding workshop for the AWS Programming and Tools Meetup in Melbourne. The workshop will start with the SAM Cli "Hello World" example API project.

Throughout the labs we will introduce each of the Powertools for AWS Lambda Core utilities to showcase how simple they are to use and adopt for all your projects, and how powerful they are at bringing you closer to the Well Architected Serverless Lens.

Walk-through video

Sample projects

Complete Lambda Handler Cookbook

Author: Ran Isenberg

This repository provides a working, deployable, open source based, AWS Lambda handler and AWS CDK Python code.

This handler embodies Serverless best practices and has all the bells and whistles for a proper production ready handler. It uses many of the Powertools for AWS Lambda utilities for Python.

github.com/ran-isenberg/aws-lambda-handler-cookbook

Author: Ran Isenberg & Heitor Lessa

This project covers an opinionated approach to Python project setup, testing, profiling, deployments, and operations. Learn about many open source tools, including Powertools for AWS Lambda—a toolkit that can help you implement serverless best practices and increase developer velocity.

It is based on the AWS Lambda handler cookbook project and served as the examples for the AWS re:invent 2023 session: OPN305 - The pragmatic serverless python developer.

https://github.com/ran-isenberg/serverless-python-demo

Serverless Transactional Message App

Author: Santiago Garcia Arango

This repository contains a well documented example of a Transactional Messages App that illustrates how to use Powertools for AWS Lambda to process SQS messages in batches (with IaC on top of CDK).

It uses Powertools for AWS Lambda Logger, Tracing, DataClasses and includes unit tests.

github.com/san99tiago/aws-cdk-transactional-messages