The top 15 Serverless Status links of 2018 š§”
Curated by Raymond Camden and Peter Cooper, Serverless Status covers the latest updates on serverless architectures and paradigms.
Hereās a run through of the most popular links of 2018.
AWS Lambda Programming Language Comparison
Epsagon | Featured in Issue 76
A comparison of code size and āwarmā performance of different languages that Lambda supports.
Serverless Best Practices
Paul Johnston | Featured in issue 66
A good set of practical best practices for serverless developers.
Lessons Learned From a Year of Going āFully Serverlessā in Production
Tal Bereznitskey | Featured in issue 51
āServerless, because we like to sleep at night.ā
A strong sense of getting away from ops headaches here by doubling down on static sites and serverless approaches.
The Best Ways to Test Your Serverless Applications
Slobadann Stojanovic | Featured in issue 57
A high-level/architecture-oriented look at how to think about testing in a serverless world.
An Updated Look at Serverless Architectures
Martin Fowler | Featured in issue 53
A significant article covering serverless architectures, updated for 2018. This is a great high-level overview of whatās involved with serverless.
The Hitchhikerās Guide to AWS Step Functions
Epsagon | Featured in issue 66
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.
Reverse Engineering AWS Lambda
Alec Posney | Featured in issue 54
What happens if you crack open AWS Lambda and dig around the gooey internals? Some delightful spelunking to read about, though possibly not very useful to most.
āWhy Invest in Backend Developers When Your Customers Donāt Care?ā
Forrest Brazeal | Featured in Issue 53
Controversial opinions lie ahead, but this take is increasingly common.
AWS Lambda Adds Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) to Supported Event Sources
Randall Hunt | Featured in issue 58
Best Practices for Serverless Application Development
Michael J. Smith & Matt Yanchyshyn | Featured in issue 74
Rather than focusing on the infrastructure, this 11-minute video takes a high-level look at the best ways to organize your code, implement testing, and so forth.
10 AWS Lambda Use Cases to Start Your Serverless Journey
Rohit Akiwatkar | Featured in Issue 68
A list of serverless use-cases which make for a good introduction to the areas in which serverless can be useful. (But note that while the article is AWS focused, these ideas can obviously be used elsewhere.)
Serverless to the Max: Doing Big Things for Small Dollars
Troy Hunt | Featured in Issue 68
Have I Been Pwned? is a popular side project for Troy and heās been using it as a sort of testing ground for seeing how cheaply he can make it run well. Hereās his write-up of just how far heās managed to get with Cloudflare Workers and Azure Functions so far.
AWS Serverless Application Repository Released
Jeff Barr | Featured in issue 40
Back in February AWS opened up their ecosystem of serverless apps and components that could be easily brought together and hosted on their services.
Lambda Programming Errors That Could Cost You Thousands of Dollars A Day
Asankha Perera | Featured in Issue 57
āWithin a week we accumulated a bill close to $10K due to a programming error.ā
Serverless Has Its Pitfalls. Hereās How You Can Avoid Them
Nicolas Dao | Featured in issue 52
A good look at where serverless fails. This article provides some good things to consider before making the move.
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