Google Announces Updates To Its Serverless Offerings, Makes Cloud Functions GA, Reveals 'Serverless Containers' Support — Cloud Functions, Google’s event-driven compute service, is now generally available and supports Python 3 and Node.js. There’s also a serverless add-on for Google Kubernetes Engine on the way, and an alpha program for running containers serverlessly on Cloud Functions. There’s also a video of the session covering these releases.

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Seamless A/B Testing, Deployment Slots and DNS Rollover with Azure Functions and Cloudflare Workers — The creator of Have I Been Pwned? reflects on how he runs the service and some neat, modern infrastructure features like using Cloudflare’s Workers platform to do A/B testing.

Troy Hunt

How to Build a Serverless Twitter Bot — A guide to building a Twitter bot that monitors and tweets IoT data - powered by serverless PubNub Functions.

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5 Ways to Gain Serverless Observability — Five approaches for gaining observability in serverless (FaaS based) systems.

Nitzan Shapira

A Crash Course on Serverless APIs with Express and MongoDB — A really detailed look at running Express (the Node.js webapp library) in a serverless context.

Adnan Rahić

Getting Started with the OpenFaaS Kubernetes Operator on EKS

Stefan Prodan

Cutting Through the Hype: When Serverless Works and When It Doesn’t — Rob Zuber, CTO for CircleCI, spoke to Nate Taggart, CEO of Stackery, exploring the practical uses for serverless architectures.

The New Stack

Secure, Affordable Image Processing

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What Google Cloud Functions Going GA Means for Serverless — As linked above, Google Cloud Functions has reached general availability. This is a big step forward for FaaS, vendor choice, and the serverless community, says Nick Gottlieb of Serverless, Inc.

Nick Gottlieb

aws-lambda-tesseract: A 11 MB Tesseract Install to Fit Inside AWS Lambda — Tesseract is an open source OCR engine and this build lets you use it compactly on AWS Lambda.

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