#66 — August 24, 2018 |
serverless status |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to AWS Step Functions — All you need to know about AWS Step Functions, the spiritual successor to the not-so-simple-to-use Simple Workflow (SWF) service. If you have complicated or long running serverless workflows, Step Functions could help you manage them. Yan Cui |
Serverless Best Practices — A good set of practical best practices for serverless developers. Paul Johnston |
Post a Video or Live Stream, Get Thumbnails, Gifs, and More — The creators of Zencoder and Video.js present Mux Video: The developer-first API for building best-in-class video applications. You’re one POST request away from being able to provide data-driven, reliable streams that are playable in seconds. Mux sponsor |
▶ Pick the Right Serverless Application Pattern — The recording of an AWS webinar looking at considerations around the design of serverless apps and how your functions are invoked. Chris Munns |
Going from Serverless to Elixir — An interesting example of when serverless isn’t the ideal approach! A developer tweeted that an API Gateway + AWS Lambda app that was costing $16K/mo was rewritten in Elixir and is now running at 1% of the cost. Cory O'Daniel |
Case Studies of AWS Serverless Apps in Production — A curated list of case studies from across the web of organizations who run production serverless apps on AWS. Paul Swail |
How to Handle Errors in Serverless Apps with AWS Step Functions Amazon Web Services, Inc. |
How to Schedule a Serverless Workflow with AWS Step Functions and Amazon CloudWatch Events — Another new official tutorial from AWS. Amazon Web Services, Inc. |
Building a Serverless Function using the Serverless Framework & Go Ewan Valentine |
How to Create Serverless Microservices with PubNub Functions — A very high level introduction to PubNub’s FaaS platform aimed primarily at building business logic in the cloud around PubNub’s other services. Syed Ahmed (PubNub) |
Serverless and Blockchain Are Great Ideas That Work Even Better Together — Insights from Tim Wagner. Forrest Brazeal |
▶ Develop a Serverless Backend using Node.js on AWS Lambda — A short 15 minute video course on egghead.io. It might possibly only be free for the next week though. Nik Graf |
Data-Driven Guide to Level-Up Your Engineering Team 🚀 GitPrime sponsor |
The Serverless Security Conundrum: Who Manages Security? — Serverless security is easier in some ways, harder in others. Here’s a look at some of the differences that matter. Tal Melamed |
Why Serverless is Being Adopted at a Faster Rate than Expected Chip Childers |
Serverless and Kubernetes: Extreme Positions Hurts Adoption — Good measured post about serverless and Kubernetes advocacy. Krishnan Subramanian |
Meanwhile on Twitter.. |