Big things are coming for Lambda Powertools

Ep #82 of the Real-World Serverless podcast 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 (https://github.com/aws-powertools) 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. Links from the episode: * Lambda Powertools Roadmap https://docs.powertools.aws.dev/lambda/python/stage/roadmap * Lambda Powertools Discord https://discord.gg/B8zZKbbyET * My post on when to use Lambda Layers https://theburningmonk.com/2021/05/lambda-layer-not-a-package-manager-but-a-deployment-optimization/ ✅ Recommended playlists: Real-World Serverless podcast on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxL5Zk12JUE&list=PLEmxvZeTV09321DS-uzXW2OXBiyYPnamL Learn to build Production-Ready Serverless Applications https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgFT0XDLUIY&list=PLEmxvZeTV091qJbIIanbhUgr1AqcGFzOY 🔔 For more free videos on YouTube, subscribe to my channel: https://youtube.com/@theburningmonk?sub_confirmation=1 💌 If you're hungry for more insights, best practices, and tips on building serverless applications, make sure to subscribe to my weekly newsletter and elevate your serverless game! https://theburningmonk.com/subscribe 📚 My courses 📚 https://theburningmonk.com/courses 👨‍🏫 My hands-on serverless workshop 👨‍🏫 https://productionreadyserverless.com 🌐 Find me here Twitter: https://twitter.com/theburningmonk LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/theburningmonk Blog: http://theburningmonk.com