#211 — July 30, 2021 |
Serverless Status |
Gatsby Serverless Functions and the International Space Station — Many eyes have been looking out to space lately, but Paul Scanlon is busy looking at the ISS and how to put together an app for tracking its position on a 3D globe using React, Three.js, and a serverless platform offered by Gatsby called Gatsby Functions. Paul Scanlon |
Cloudflare Workers Now Offers a Green Option — As our planet boils, freezes and floods in various ways, you might be worrying more and more about sustainability and Cloudflare has a way for you to run your (cron-triggered only for now) serverless code solely in facilities powered by renewable energy. It’s in beta now. Aly Cabral |
Set Up a Serverless GraphQL Backend in 30 Seconds with Hasura — Create a powerful GraphQL API on your data instantly without the need to build & operate a GraphQL Server. Hasura GraphQL Engine is loved by developers and has been downloaded over 250M times making it the fastest growing open source GraphQL service. Try for free. Hasura sponsor |
Firecracker Internals: A Deep Dive Inside the Tech Powering AWS Lambda — Is Firecracker yet another new AWS service? Not quite. First, it’s been around for a few years, but secondly it’s a virtualization tech for rapidly spinning up ‘micro VMs’ to perform quick tasks such as.. running your serverless functions. Tal Hoffman |
Regulating Inbound Request Rates on AWS — A series of posts about building well-architected serverless apps. There are a few settings you can tweaks or approaches you can take. Here’s part two. Julian Wood |
Rust and WebAssembly Serverless Functions in Vercel — This post explores how to use WasmEdge functions, written in Rust, to power a Vercel application backend. Michael Yuan |
▶ Talking Serverless with Josh Proto — Josh Proto is the COO of Serverless Guru, co-host of the Talking Serverless Podcast, and an AWS Community Builder, and in this episode he talks about ‘retooling’ yourself for a serverless world, how to grapple with cold starts, and the promise of edge native cloud functions. FSJam Podcast podcast |
How to Set Up Scheduled Backups for Amazon DynamoDB using AWS Backup — Backups are the ideal ‘set it and forget it (till you need it!)’ task. Dhiraj Thakur (AWS) |
How to Build a Modern Shopping Site with Astro and Serverless Functions
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