#51 — May 11, 2018 |
serverless status |
Five Serverless Fallacies (And How To Avoid Them) — Forrest looks past the hype to provide real talk on ‘walled gardens’, scalability, and more common misperceptions about serverless technologies. Forrest Brazeal |
Reducing Latency and Shifting Compute to the Edge with Lambda@Edge — A practical look at using AWS’s Lambda@Edge (basically a way to run server-side JavaScript at edge locations) to provide low latency data to clients. Amazon Web Services |
eBook: Best Practices when Versioning a Release — We will take a closer look at semantic versioning – a key best practice for versioning software releases. Codeship sponsor |
Lessons Learned From a Year of Going "Fully Serverless" in Production — “Serverless, because we like to sleep at night.” A strong sense of getting away from ops headaches here by doubling down on static sites and serverless approaches. Tal Bereznitskey |
Serverless Ruby with Docker and Apache OpenWhisk — Ruby isn’t a language we often get to see in a serverless context so it’s neat to see an example of a Dockerized Ruby app running on IBM Cloud’s OpenWhisk-based Cloud Functions. Justin Halsall |
Comparing PubNub Functions to AWS Lambda Functions — As numerous serverless platforms roll out, it’s going to be natural for users to try and compare them to AWS Lambda which appears to have become a ‘reference’ platform of sorts. Adam Bavosa (PubNub) |
File Storage for Serverless Applications — A look at how you deal with file storage when working with serverless apps. James Thomas |
A Crash Course on Securing Serverless APIs with JSON Web Tokens Adnan Rahić |
Building A Serverless Contact Form For Your Static Site Smashing Magazine |
▶ Building Event-Driven Serverless Apps with Azure Functions and Azure Cosmos DB Rafat Sarosh |
How Twilio Improves 'Mean Time To Discovery' ROLLBAR sponsor |
Serverless Mistakes You Should Avoid — Covers a few things like connection pooling, WebSockets, and cold starts. Nicolas Dao |
Serverless is Going to Crush Kubernetes (But Only in a Theoretical World Which Doesn’t Actually Exist) — A highly opinionated thought piece you might enjoy: “Serverless will crush Kuberenetes about as much as x86 servers crushed mainframes – that is, not much at all.” Ben Kepes |
Serverless Components: An Easier Way to Build Apps with Cloud Services — A ‘Serverless Component’ packages cloud/SaaS services, logic and automation into a building block to more easily build apps. Serverless |