AWS has extended Lambda SnapStart to container image functions, which hold up to 10 GB against 250 MB for zip archives. Teams previously chose between dependency headroom and sub-second startup. A Reddit thread from a month earlier shows what that cost: stripping whitespace and docstrings from installed packages to stay under the limit.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

The Terraform AWS Provider continues its rapid evolution, with v6.62.0 adding support for new AWS capabilities while improving how Terraform understands and manages existing infrastructure.

By Craig Risi

Ross McFarlane and Kevin Holditch discuss Form3's evolution from a single-cloud setup to a triple active multi-cloud architecture. They share key engineering strategies for cross-cloud networking, distributed databases with CockroachDB and NATS, custom Kubernetes operators, and navigating distinct regional disaster recovery expectations across the UK, Europe, and US financial markets.

By Ross McFarlane, Kevin Holditch

Uber is expanding its AWS contract to run more of its ride-sharing features on Amazon's chips. This is a thumb-of-the nose at Oracle and Google.

The article discusses the challenges faced during a migration from a relational database to NoSQL, focusing on the importance of database sequences for unique identifiers. It outlines the development of a new sequence service using DynamoDB and a two-tier caching architecture.

By Saumya Tyagi