Serverless Status Issue 1: April 21, 2017

Issue 1

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The Security Implications of the Serverless Approach — By eliminating infrastructure management, the serverless approach pushes many security concerns on to the provider, but this doesn’t solve every issue.

Guy Podjarny

Build a 'Serverless' Slack Bot in 9 Minutes with Node.js and StdLib — A very detailed walk through of building a Slack Bot using the Standard Library (stdlib.com).

Keith Horwood

Why The Fuss About Serverless? — Somehow we missed this enjoyable explanation and analysis from a month ago :-)

Simon Wardley

AWS Lambda Now Supports Python 3.6

Amazon Web Services news

Chalice: Python Serverless Microframework for AWS — Quickly create and deploy applications that use Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda.

Amazon Web Services tools

Dawson: A Serverless Framework for Node.js on AWS — A zero-configuration yet fully extensible framework for building serverless Node apps on AWS with Lambda, CloudFormation and API Gateway.

Simone Lusenti tools

Kubeless: A Serverless Framework for Kubernetes

Bitnami tools