Real World Serverless with theburningmonk

#82: Big things are coming for Lambda Powertools with Heitor Lessa

Sep 5, 2023

Heitor Lessa, principal solution architect at AWS, talks about the challenges and learnings from building the Lambda Powertools project. They discuss the trade-offs of monolithic Lambda functions and the use of Lambda Layers. Heitor also announces upcoming features and discusses the importance of working in public and building internal communities.

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Heitor Lessa

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Quick takeaways

Lambda Powertools project has a dedicated team to enhance existing features and add new ones.

Power Tools now supports observability providers, offering more flexibility for users to use their preferred tools.

Data Masking and Encryption feature simplifies encrypting and masking sensitive data for enhanced privacy and security.

Deep dives

Power Tools now has a team behind it

Power Tools, a toolkit for AWS, now has a dedicated team working on it. This is a significant milestone for the project and ensures that it will receive ongoing support and development. The team will focus on enhancing the existing features and adding new ones to improve the developer experience. This move also enables the team to have on-call support, prioritize feature development, and establish a release cadence.

Introduction

3min

Evolving Power Tools and Challenges

18min

Discussing the functionality of Fingaloo MIGO and data encryption

2min

Event Handler in Power Tools community

20min

Usage of Lambda power tools outside of Lambda and the importance of provider ability

6min

The Importance of Working in Public and Building Internal Communities of Developers

10min

Wrapping up with appreciation and an upcoming course

2min

In this episode, I spoke with Heitor Lessa, who is a principal solution architect at AWS that specializes in serverless. He's also the man behind the popular AWS Lambda Powertools project which is available in a number of languages.

We talked about the history of the Lambda Powertools project, and the challenges and learnings from building in public. And Heitor shared the public roadmap for the Lambda Powertools and announced some exciting features that are going to be available soon.

Additionally, we also discussed the trade-offs of monolithic Lambda functions, aka "fat functions", and why Heitor prefers them nowadays. And we talked about Lambda Layers and when it's a good idea to use them. Hint: You shouldn't use Lambda Layers as a replacement for package managers such as NPM.

You can also watch this episode on YouTube here, and see the code samples that Heitor shared during the episode.

Links from the episode:

You can find Heitor on X as @heitor_lessa and his LinkedIn profile here.

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Opening theme song:
Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

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