Introduction to Begin: Create, build, & deploy applications at scale
Part Two: Less management, more serverless development with Begin functions
Developing applications with Node.js is great. However, the modern world requires building applications for hyper scalability if a business is to be sustainable. Getting an idea or a concept to market as quickly as possible can define the profitable future of an organization. It’s this process that Begin addresses and optimizes for with their platform.
Begin was created on the foundation of providing developers the ability to create, build, and deploy cloud applications at scale in the shortest time possible. Along with super fast CI/CD (continuous integration/continuous deployment) functionality, all applications deployed via Begin are powered by AWS, taking advantage of Lambdas and integrated CDNs to ensure the software you build is scalable and fast. With serverless technology coming into play, you only pay for what you use without having to worry about maintenance, which in the case of traditional servers. The agility to ship code quickly that can scale automatically, without being concerned with the underlying infrastructure, is the major value Begin offers.
We’ll see how Begin works by deploying a function that calls a third-party weather API to get relevant data based on the city specified in the query string parameter value of the URL.
