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Weekly Updates October 19

⚡️ What's Up from Webiny?

This week we have lots of community updates on technical content from Webiny, Hacktoberfest, and last weeks GitHub trending . Let's start ⚡️🙌

🙌 Community Updates

🔬 5 Tips to Make Your Lambda Functions Run Faster (and Cheaper)

The AWS Lambda service allows us to easily deploy and run our own code, without worrying too much about the underlying infrastructure (when compared to non-serverless technologies).

But, there are still a couple of useful tricks to know, when it comes to making your code execute as fast as possible, which is especially important when creating synchronous workflows like for example HTTP APIs.

In this short article, Webiny’s lead developer Adrian will show you five tips to make your Lambda functions perform not only faster, but also cheaper! 🚄

🔭 Five Important Tips For Working With JWTs

Nowadays, JSON Web Tokens are the most common way of proving identity information to APIs.
Learn about the experiences we've had at Webiny - some not-so-simple problems we've encountered and what we've learned in the process ⚡️ ⬇️

Check out the hackernoon publication here 🚀

📉 Trending on GitHub

Last weekend Webiny went to the space 🚀 Trending on GitHub with the TypeScript tag on 17th of October.

😎 Get Your Swag

To show our appreciation to all our contributors 🌟 and supporters ⚡️ we are giving away free swag. Visit our Swag page to get more details on how you can claim your swag!

💻 Webiny Hacktoberfest 2020 [UPDATES]

Let’s start the update by giving a shout out to our new contributor 👏

Contributing to open source can be a rewarding way to learn, teach, and build experience in just about any skill you can imagine. - Why contribute to open-source?

Are you into Serverless Development❓ Have you heard about the easiest way to adopt Serverless⁉️

Join us on building the leading framework for Serverless Development❗️❗️ Check out the hacktoberfest issues here 🚀

Start your hacktoberfest journey with Webiny by:

Hacktoberfest

🤝 Get Involved

Webiny provides you a/an:

  • ✅ Developer-friendly environment
  • ✅ Open Source Project
  • ✅ Community 💛 Join us today

We encourage everyone to get involved and contribute, regardless of their experience level. Read the contributing guide, and if you still run into problems, just give us a ping on Slack, we will help you out.

Our development team is on standby to help your in-house team to learn and adopt Webiny — all free of cost!

🚀 We are hiring

We are looking for a member to join our team. If you are interested? Apply for the Full-Stack JavaScript Engineer role.

Since we are a small team, in this role, you’ll have a significant opportunity to directly influence the technical and product design choices we will make.

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