WunderBase: A Serverless GraphQL Database on Top of SQLite — A new, open source, serverless database providing a GraphQL API on top of SQLite, Firecracker (by way of fly.io) and Prisma. It sleeps when you don’t use it and spins up in under a second. It’s no universal solution, but presents some promising ideas I’m sure we’ll see elsewhere soon.

WunderGraph

Running Rust-y Serverless Lambdas on AWS — A detailed look at how well Rust plays with Lambda functions on AWS (not least because Rust binaries are really quick to start). Lots of good analysis, comparisons, and data shared here.

Ervin Szilágyi

Code Capsules: The Simplest Way to Deploy Your Code — Use async tasks in your web app to give your users a smooth web experience. It’s easy with Code Capsules and Redis.

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'Google Cloud Functions Is Surprisingly Delightful' — The usually amusingly acerbic Corey tells us that “all things considered” Google’s 'Functions' offering provides a “delightful development experience that I’d absolutely recommend to someone who’s starting out”. He's right, but you just have to cross your fingers that they don't decide to 'sunset' it.

Corey Quinn

Serverless Architecture Layers & DDD — The Experience Layer — The first in a new series of posts, this time talking through the five Serverless Architecture Layers in detail, starting with the experience layer.

Lee James Gilmore

AWS Lambda & Serverless — A Developer's Guide — This is an impressive hands-on effort from Mehmet with several articles to dive into, covering AWS Serverless with AWS Lambda, API Gateway, Amazon DynamoDB, S3, SNS, SQS, EventBridge, Step Functions, DynamoDB and much more.

Mehmet Ozkaya

How to Get Started with Astro and Redis — A step-by-step guide to building a site using Astro (a modern JS and 'islands architecture' oriented frontend dev toolkit) and Svelte components that uses a hosted Redis store as the data store behind a notes app.

Rodney Johnson