🦀 Crafting Lambda Functions in Rust gets a foreword & a first official reviewer!

Hello, fellow rustacean serverless friend 👋 

As we keep working on chapters 5 & 6, we couldn’t wait to share some exciting news with you: we have an official foreword for the book and a first official reviewer!

🦸🏻 Let’s meet David

Say hello to David Calavera, who kindly agreed to write the foreword to our book and be our first official book reviewer!

If you are not familiar with David’s work, well, let’s just start by mentioning that he is the lead maintainer of the Rust runtime for AWS Lambda and the creator of Cargo Lambda! We couldn’t have wished for a better reviewer, really!

If you want to know more about David, you can find his bio in the new version of the book!

Yes, we just released a new version of the book too!

🗞️ What’s new

This new version isn’t major in terms of content but has some exciting additions and improvements:

• We have added David’s foreword. We seriously hope you’ll like it as much as we did.

• We did an internal review of the existing content and made many small improvements in readability and fixing typos and other small imperfections. Again thanks to everyone who has kindly reported issues or suggested improvements.

• We added David as a reviewer and included his biography in the preface.

• We updated the acknowledgments section to thank all the new early adopters!

Hopefully, these are some good reasons to keep the book on your summer reads list! 🤓 ☀️ 

📦 How to get the new release

If you own a copy of Crafting Lambda Functions in Rust, getting the new release should be a breeze!

• Go to Gumroad, login, and visit your product library

• This is the list of the products you have purchased, you should see “Crafting Lambda functions in Rust (e-book)“ in there.

• If you click on it you will get to a page with all the download links

You will find all the updated code examples in our code repository.

Let us know if you have any trouble with this! We are here to help!

👂 We want to hear your feedback

It’s really important to us to hear your feedback. Even if you don’t have any suggestions about the content, let us know what you think about the book so far! Which parts did you like the most? Was there something you didn’t like or something that wasn’t clear? Was there something you wish we had included? Don’t be shy and reach out on Discord or by email with your precious feedback!

If you feel particularly generous, you can also leave us a review on Gumroad. That would help us a lot! 🤩 WE CURRENTLY HAVE 0 REVIEWS, SO YES, PLZ, SEND HELP! 🙀😿

🔮 What’s next

We are making some good progress on chapters 5 and 6 where we will be covering code structure and testing. We don’t have a strict deadline yet but we hope a new release will come out before the end of August! We also have a few other reviewers in the pipeline and we are excited to share their names with you, so that will come soon as well! 🥰

Thanks for reading thus far! 🙏

Stay safe & keep the rusty serverless game strong!

— Luciano & James