#52 — May 18, 2018 |
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▶ Serverless, Not So FaaS — In trying to solve a simple problem, Kelsey Hightower, a developer advocate for Google Cloud Platform, reflects on some of the friction points encountered with serverless approaches. (15 minutes.) Kelsey Hightower |
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Break Through the Serverless Barriers with Azure Functions — A roundup of the key advancements made on Azure recently with regards to serverless technologies including durable functions, diagnostics, and Event Grid. Eduardo Laureano (Microsoft) |
Which Amazon Cloud Technology Should You Choose? RDS? Aurora? Roll Your Own? — Percona will cover the different technologies for running databases on Amazon Cloud environments. Focusing on the operational aspects, benefits and limitations for each. Percona sponsor |
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Serverless Has Its Pitfalls. Here’s How You Can Avoid Them — A good look at where serverless fails. As a supporter of serverless in general, I really appreciate this article for providing some good things to consider before making the move. Nicolas Dao |
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ServerlessByDesign: A Visual Approach to Serverless Development — An open source utility to create visual diagrams of serverless architectures which you can then export as a CloudFormation template and app. Live demo here. Danilo Poccia |
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How to Create a REST API with Prewritten Serverless Components — How to create a fully-fledged REST API application using pre-written components from the Serverless Components project (which we mentioned last week). Philipp Müns |
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aws-sam-cli: A CLI Tool for Local Development and Testing of Serverless Apps — A recently rewritten and open sourced AWS CLI tool for managing serverless applications written with AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) including testing functions locally and starting a local API gateway. Amazon Web Services |
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A Guide to Developing REST APIs with AWS Lambda and API Gateway — An accessible walkthrough of creating a Node-powered ‘serverless’ REST API using AWS Lambda’s latest Node 8.10 runtime support. David Herron |
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Netlify Lambdas, As Simple As Possible — A quick intro to using the popular static site provider’s serverless functions service (which itself uses AWS Lambda). Mark Luetke |
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▶ Connect Anything to Everything: Serverless Routing and Messaging with Event Grid — Learn about the value of Event Grid by seeing an example in action. Jeremy Likness |
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Azure Tips and Tricks Video Series Azure sponsor |
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Zappa: Serverless Python with AWS Lambda + API Gateway — Makes it easy to deploy Python applications (including WSGI apps) on AWS Lambda and API Gateway. Think of it as ‘serverless’ hosting for Python web apps. Rich Jones |
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HTTP/2 Configuration Available in the Azure Portal — It’s now easy-peasy to get your Azure Functions working over HTTP/2. Microsoft |