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Checkout episode "#168 Serverless Java on AWS" with Mark,

AWS Lambda Powertools for Java was was initiated in 2020,

AWS Lambda Powertools for Java started with logging tracing and custom metrics,

the major use cases for AWS Lambda Powertools,

lambda best practices are implemented as modules,

Lambda Powertools Java Logging and structured logging in JSON format with additional context provided with annotation,

including the correct amount of data,

logging writes to standard out,

Lambda, metrics and the AWS CloudWatch Embedded Metrics Format (EMF),

AWS Lambda and metrics scraping,

Lambda Powertools Java Metrics,

providing Lambdas to AWS CloudWatch via EMF,

synchronous AWS CloudWatch calls are expensive,

secrets and configuration management with parameters,

AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store support,

parameter caching,

Lambda Java-like tracing with AWS X-Ray,

Lambda Powertools annotation for X-Ray,

adding exceptions to AWS X-Ray,

adding correlation id support for cross Lamba logging,

AWS Lambda Powertools for Java is an incubator,

support for CloudFormation custom resources,

the SQS and SNS message offloading to S3,

validation support of business objects with JSON-Schema and JMESPath,

the killer Use Case for AOP,

writing ugly code for performance