Serverless Status Issue 33: December 22, 2017

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In this final issue of 2017, we're taking a look back at the most popular items of the year. We'll see you back on January 12, 2018 - thanks for your support! :-)

Awesome Serverless: A Curated List of 1000+ Serverless Resources — It’s not new but is being updated on an almost daily basis. This is packed with blog posts, talks, tools, and more.

Just Serverless

Hacker News Users on Using AWS Lambda in Production — A Hacker News thread with over 100 comments answering the question ‘How was your experience with AWS Lambda (Amazon’s serverless platform) in production?’

Hacker News news

A Serverless Performance Shootout — A performance and usability comparison of three function-as-a-service providers: AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions and Microsoft Azure Functions.

Matt Billock

Building a Voice-Activated Movie Search App Powered by Amazon Lex, Lambda, and MongoDB Atlas (Part 2) — Set up a Lex bot in the AWS Console and verify that its basic flow works as expected. Stay tuned for Part 3.

mongodb sponsored

The Emerging GraphQL and Serverless Stack for Building Static Sites

The New Stack news

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

Steven Faulkner video

Build Your First Serverless Webapp — A practical five module online workshop from Amazon that focuses on AWS Lambda, unsurprisingly, and covers areas like user management and RESTful APIs.

Amazon Web Services, Inc.

Why Are Webhooks Better Than Serverless Extensibility? — A well made argument that webhooks are more often the right way to go for situations where customers are extending upon your service.

Randall Degges

Why The JVM Is A Good Choice for Serverless

John Chapin

A Beginner’s Guide to Serverless Architecture — Learn more about the advantages of serverless architecture and see how to configure and deploy your serverless project.

Coding Sans

Serverless for All Developers with Azure Functions and Visual Studio

Azure sponsored

Serverless Cost Calculator — A cool calculator to provide estimates for serverless usage across Lambda, Azure Functions, Google Cloud Functions, and OpenWhisk.

Peter Sbarski tools

Nuclio: The New Serverless Superhero — Nuclio is a framework, written in Go, for high-performance serverless real-time event and data processing.

Yaron Haviv tools