serverless-patterns VS docker-lambda

You may be aware of Serverlessland, a treasure trove of developer-centered content and examples of serverless applications. I decided to take one of their more popular (and AI-focused) tutorials, titled “Use GenAI capabilities to build a chatbot”, and recreate it with App Composer and our trusty AI assistant. Here we go!

Serverless Land is a place with a ton of serverless resources.

If you're looking for examples, you can check out my GitHub, it's full of SAM templates that cover a wide range of use cases. Serverless Land is another fantastic resource full of reference material. If you are trying to build something but can't quite figure it out in SAM, remember - it's all just CloudFormation. Browse the docs to see how to define that stubborn resource.

I will use dynamodb-streams-to-eventbridge-outbox-pattern by David Boyne as an example.

This is definitely not the most common pattern. As an independent data point, you can look at the AWS-maintained serverlessland.com, where ALL the patterns that include SNS and SQS are going SNS > SQS.

For all my associated exams I used Mareek/TD, labs and for SAP also went through SAP course of A. Cantrill, also tools like https://serverlessland.com/ and aws event talks on YouTube can help you understand concepts.

For serverless, serverlessland.com

If you’re using AWS serverlessland is maintained by AWS and has great resources

https://github.com/dherault/serverless-offline https://github.com/lambci/docker-lambda

Step 2: Push a container from your local machine to ECR. Currently, I use sample python lambda docker from https://github.com/lambci/docker-lambda.git

You can see the following projects for some examples of using this plugin to build a layer. They all leverage Docker and the docker-lambda images to compile for AWS’s Lambda environment on any operating system:

I end up using Lambda a lot so lambci is very useful for local testing: https://github.com/lambci/docker-lambda

There are kind souls in this world who created this: https://github.com/lambci/docker-lambda

If all you need is the ability to run a lambda function's code locally you might interested in docker-lambda[1]. I haven't really used localstack or SAM but a couple of years ago when we needed to run some lambda functions locally for development docker-lambda worked well enough.

[1] https://github.com/lambci/docker-lambda

Docker Lambda — Docker Lambda is a tool which tries to replicate the AWS Lambda environment as closely as possible, but within a Docker container. Docker Lambda has support for most of the AWS Lambda run times.

Want to emulate AWS environments? Try docker-lambda.