serverless-patterns VS learn-cantrill-io-labs

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

Cantrill's labs played an instrumental part in learning and passing the exam (https://github.com/acantril/learn-cantrill-io-labs). They not only allowed me to get my hands dirty building cool projects in the AWS environment, but also gave me something to show on my github to prove my abilities to future recruiters. This practical experience solidified my understanding of the theoretical concepts I was reading about in the AWS documentation.

Free learn-cantrill-io-labs: https://github.com/acantril/learn-cantrill-io-labs

Adrian Cantrill has free one's with video walkthroughs for those who struggle with doing labs : https://github.com/acantril/learn-cantrill-io-labs

With my courses for example, i include mini projects which my students have used as evidence of experience in job interviews. You can also get many of them for free here https://github.com/acantril/learn-cantrill-io-labs

Step-by-step tutorial for how to use AWS Elemental MediaConvert Service. You can do it using this URL. Its created by Adrian Cantrill.

Start some of the projects from https://github.com/acantril/learn-cantrill-io-labs - use the youtube videos linked to help you if you get stuck.

For Practice labs we recommend : https://github.com/acantril/learn-cantrill-io-labs and then workshops.aws

Step-by-step tutorial for how to use AWS Macie URL. Before demo download sample data zip file.