Serverless Status Issue 2: May 12, 2017

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Welcome to the first issue of our new serverless newsletter that we're actually sending out. It's early days and we're still finding our feet so feel free to hit reply and let us know what you want to see more (or less) of. Otherwise, thanks for subscribing and we'll see you every Friday :-)

Your editors,
Peter Cooper and Raymond Camden

Going Multi-Cloud with Google Cloud Endpoints and AWS Lambda — Google’s ‘Cloud Endpoints’ makes it easy to build OpenAPI-compliant APIs which then assists in cross-cloud setups. This post demonstrates invoking a Cloud Endpoints API from AWS’s ‘serverless’ Lambda platform.

Google Cloud Platform

Why Vendor Lock-in with Serverless Isn’t What You Think It Is — “Trying to build something serverless and cross-cloud is an attempt to avoid the correct process.”

Paul Johnston

Microsoft Debuts Azure Functions for In-House Use — Microsoft has released a version of its serverless ‘Azure Functions’ service that can be run behind the enterprise firewall.

The New Stack news

'Serverless Architectures on AWS' Book Released — This book (376 pages) on serverless with AWS was just released.

Manning news

Serverless: How We Bootstrapped Our Startup by Skipping Half the Work — A high level ‘newsy’ type item, but it’s good to see the serverless term making it into more general publications.

Jay Meistrich news

Getting Started with Serverless PHP — How to use the Serverless Framework to get PHP working in AWS Lambda with an experience that closely mimics native languages.

Andy Raines

How to Build a Serverless, SEO-Friendly React Blog — Build a serverless, CMS-powered blog using React, ButterCMS, and built-in prerendering through Netlify.

Roger Jin

A Hitchhiker's Guide to 'Serverless' JavaScript — A walk through one company’s entire serverless stack, focusing heavily on the ‘why’.

Steven Faulkner video

5 Takeaways from ServerlessConf — The videos are coming soon and we’ll feature them in this newsletter.

Forrest Brazeal

Serverless Works Best in API Architectures — At last month’s Serverlessconf, a lot of thought was going into how serverless approaches fit in with legacy and microservice-based systems, leading to the idea of ‘hybrid’ systems.

Mark Boyd

Serverless Screenshot service with Lambda — Not a new post, but a cool example of using serverless functions to create a screenshot of a page.

Sander van de Graaf

How to Create Your First Python 3.6 AWS Lambda Function

Matt Makai

How You Can Speed Up Serverless Development by Simulating AWS Lambda Locally

John McKim

Introducing RedSift: A Serverless, Full-Stack, Polyglot PaaS — Provides a data-flow style programming model with code residing in containerized nodes.

Michael Karliner tools

Visual Studio 2017 Tools for Azure Functions

Microsoft tools

Fission: Serverless Functions for Kubernetes — Deploy functions instantly with one command with no containers to build or Docker registries to manage.

Platform9 Systems tools