Serverless Status Issue 244: May 13, 2022

🇺🇦 #244 — May 13, 2022

Cloudflare's Big Week: Announcing D1: Cloudflare's First SQL Database — D1 is Cloudflare’s first SQL database — it’s designed for Cloudflare Workers, is built on the ubiquitous and serverless SQLite, and the beta starts in just a month's time.

Given this is Cloudflare's 'Platform Week', this wasn't the only news from them. They've been really busy with a slew of other announcements including:

The Workers runtime is being open-sourced under the Apache-2.0 license.
You can now hook up a custom domain to your Worker with minimal fuss.
Cloudflare Pages now supports direct uploads.
Reusable, customizable chunks of runtime code? That's Pages Plugins.
'Workers for Platforms' is a new tool suite to "make every application on the Internet more programmable".
Service Bindings, an API for Worker-to-Worker communication, are now generally available.
Cloudflare Pub/Sub is an in-beta programmable, serverless message broker.

Rita Kozlov & Glen Maddern (Cloudflare)

A Cold Start Comparison of AWS Lambda and Cloudflare Workers — A comparison of AWS Lambda, CloudFront Functions and Cloudflare Workers functions around cold start times. The results surprised me a bit in that the average response time wasn’t that different. CloudFront Functions do very well, but are more limited in their capabilities by design.

Fatih Baltacı

Debugging AWS Step Functions Executions with a New Console Experience — Here’s a new opt-in console experience that aims to make it easier to analyze, debug, and optimize Standard Workflows. This post explains the new capabilities, looking at how to debug workflows quickly, sort and filter on state events, and view the input and output path processing for each state.

Benjamin Smith (AWS)

⚡️ In Brief:

AWS Lambda now officially supports Node.js 16.
Sunil Pai shares ten things to love about Wrangler, Cloudflare's CLI for building workers — which just hit 2.0 and is now public for general usage.
IBM is gearing up for a world of 'quantum-centric super computing' with something it's calling Serverless Quantum.
Here's a look at how to reduce your log-storage costs via automation in Amazon CloudWatch.
Juan Sebastián Urrego Escobar looks at using Kotlin in a serverless architecture with AWS Lambda.

Using Next.js ISR with Serverless Cloud — Serverless Inc's cloud platform supports Next.js incremental static regeneration (ISR) rendering method (basically generating static pages at runtime rather than build time). This post walks through how to use it.

Russ Schick (Serverless Inc.)

How to Use Next.js Middleware on Netlify with Edge Functions

Matt Kane & Melanie Crissey (Netlify)