#38 — February 9, 2018 |
serverless status |
Hi folks. A bit of a change in the design department this week. We want to give a richer experience here and inject a bit more personality from time to time, so we've got a more flexible layout now. Enjoy! If you have anything you want to tell us or submit for future inclusion, hit reply and send us an email :-) |
▶ (1hr) Serverless: State of The Union — Technical Evangelism Lead at AWS, Ian Massingham shares his thoughts on the current state of serverless. Related slidedeck. AWS DevDays Nordics |
Getting Started with Serverless Go(lang) — A well-presented, thorough introduction to getting started building Go-based apps on AWS Lambda using the Serverless framework’s Go boilerplate. This is no bare-bones intro as it digs into hooking into AWS DynamoDB too. Yos Riady |
Monitoring AWS Lambda Performance — Track function latency and errors—then put it all in context with data from 200+ techs across every layer of your stack. Gain real-time performance insights and set intelligent alerts with Datadog. Try it free for 14-days. Datadog sponsor |
▶ (46m) Confusion in the Land of the Serverless — A talk packed with answers to uncommon serverless questions on areas like security, vendor lock-in and more. Sam Newman |
How to Decide When to Use Serverless — “The question isn’t whether you should leverage serverless computing, but when you should start.” — Vince Power looks at which factors to consider when deciding whether serverless can help you to deploy your app. The New Stack |
Serverless is the New PaaS — “if AWS has anything to say about it, serverless will become the preferred approach for PaaS-style functional requirements” Stephen O'Grady |
Continuous Delivery with GoCD on Chef GoCD sponsor |
IBM Cloud Functions Introduces 'Templates' for New Apps — IBM releases a set of templates (which are more than just source code) for Cloud Functions to help jumpstart new apps. Belinda Vennam (IBM) |
Performance Debugging for Serverless Functions using the IBM Cloud Shell — A good look at how IBM Cloud Shell renders performance information for serverless functions. Rodric Rabbah |
Setting up Daily AWS DynamoDB Backups using the Serverless Framework Eryk Warren |
The Curse of Dead Lambda Functions — Unused ‘cold’ functions can cause security and management problems. Clean them up with list-lambdas, which we linked last week. Nitzan Shapira |
How To Reduce the Risks Of Continuous Delivery ROLLBAR sponsor |
Deep Learning on Lambda: Architecture and Performance — A series of notes from a recently deployment of Deep Learning models on AWS Lambda. Lex Toumbourou |
Going Serverless: Converting Yield.IO to AWS and Lambda — The tale of converting a single page site to using AWS Lambda. Chris Baus |
SLAppForge: A New Browser-Based IDE for Building Serverless Apps SLAppForge Lanka |