Resources

Who has time to babysit servers? Not me. I have code to write, and customers to keep happy. I could use just a static site generator like Jekyll, but we need more. I have important Internal customers - the marketing department. People that expect a nice web GUI for their CMS. How am I going to make that happen with a static website?

An overview of its history, basic concepts, providers, frameworks, benefits and drawbacks.

How to implement a shared environment structure needed for you and your team or teams to succeed when building serverless applications with Amplify.

Outlines the pros and cons of Express and Serverless and explains why it made sense for our team at Pilcro to switchover. This piece is aimed at tech teams looking to deploy and manage Node.js APIs on AWS (or similar).

We’ve created a simple internal platform that allows nanoservices to be uploaded, as code. It then allows a nanoservice to be executed on demand, via a RESTful API. There are no containers or servers dedicated to each nanoservice; instead, they all run on a shared platform. Which for us is a set of auto-scaling cloud instances.

How to seamlessly add realtime features to your polling app using Pusher while visualizing the data on a chart using CanvasJS.

Explore the benefits of GraphQL over REST, and build a feature rich webshop using Graphcool and the Serverless Framework.

Calculating cost for AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, Google Cloud Functions, and IBM OpenWhisk.

Explore different use cases for building microservices with Serverless technology. The talk will include real world serverless examples from companies & the open source world.

The Serverlist newsletter highlights all things serverless, with content that covers news from the serverless world, tutorials to learn how to get involved yourself, and different events you can attend.

So how do you select the right serverless provider? The answer is in this article. Here we discuss the major serverless provider considering their technical empowerment which will help you to equally weigh the selection process directed towards your specific needs.

In this post, you’ll learn how to add authentication to your application using both OAuth with Facebook and Google as well as username & password login.

Think about only using functions. No more managing servers. You only care about the code. Sounds rather cool. We as developers shouldn’t need to do the tedious work on the command line. Let the ops guys handle that. What do we even call this type of architecture? Only using functions? Small functions? Tiny services?

In this video, we walk through how to create a new AWS AppSync GraphQL API & connect to it from a client-side application.

How we set up the globe by making use of a Serverless function that gets geolocation data from Google for all of our speaking locations. I’ll also run through how we’re going to use Vuex to store all of this data and output it to the table and globe, and how we’ll use computed properties in Vue to make sorting through that table super performant.

Build a serverless e-commerce app using AWS Lambda, Stripe and React ensuring your website is ready for traffic peaks.

In this episode of React Round Up, Justin Bennett speaks with co-founder of Couchbase, Chris Anderson. Chris has been working with NoSQL databases for approximately a decade, and is currently working on FaunaDB, doing development outreach, while writing codes to connect with the different eco systems: Serverless, JAMStacks and React Native. He is also a blogger on a platform he calls ‘Serverless’ and enjoys decoding web applications and converting them to mobile.

A tutorial on building a ToDo app with React where the data is stored in Firebase connected to a Redux Store.

Take some baby steps into building things with Serverless. We’ll mostly be looking at cloud functions here and how using them from an otherwise static hosting environment means you’ve unlocked all sorts of possibilities.

In this video we’ll build a Game of Thrones app using AWS AppSync & the Gatsby Source GraphQL plugin. We’ll learn how to create the GraphQL api, install & configure Gatsby Source GraphQL, & deploy the app with the static GraphQL data available to render in the app.

The idea with this article is to show how we can build microservices, dockerize them and combine them in a GraphQL API and query it from a Serverless function.

In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to create & query images and files using GraphQL with AWS AppSync, AWS Amplify, and Amazon S3.

In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to take advantage of AWS AppSync, a managed GraphQL service, to build a full-stack application without writing a single line of back-end code.

In this video you’ll learn Git-based deployment for web applications for both front-end and back-end resources using AWS Amplify and the Amplify Console.

In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to add a custom domain to an Amplify Console deployment in just a couple of minutes.

Episodes like Pam Selle talking serverless observability, David Wells talking serverless.com, and Chris Swan on code validation in a serverless enviornment.

An in-depth JAMstack guide for beginner’s covering the foundations of JAMstack and a complete understanding of its architecture. It compares the traditional workflow vs Jamstack and highlights the advantages of using Jamstack for developers. It also provides a real-time example of building a site using Jamstack for readers to use as a reference.

You probably have heard of JAMstack — the new web stack based on JavaScript, APIs, and Markup — but what does it mean for your workflow and when does it make sense in your projects? We’ve kindly asked Phil Hawksworth to run a webinar explaining what JAMStack actually means and when it makes sense, as well as how it affects tooling and front-end architecture.

Episodes like Tanmai Gopal talking GraphQL querying, Kenton Varda talking originless code, and Ado Kukic talking auth.

How to build a JAMstack application with features like authentication, GraphQL APIs, and hosting using the Amplify Framework and Amplify Console.

2017 is shaping up to be the year of serverless computing, most notably through AWS Lambda and Google Cloud Functions created through Firebase.

I decided to build a tool of my own, but I didn’t want to spin up VMs and configure expensive infrastructure to handle the load of a ton of redirects going through my servers. So, I decided to go serverless: the perfect task for Azure Functions to take on!

Architecture diagrams of serverless architectures.

Moving our startup to simple stateless serverless functions has a few hurdles, and AWS Lambda has a few quirks that requires some trial and error. But at the the end the journey, we managed to eliminate all of our EC2 instances and we’re now running all our code using AWS Lambda.

Discover how to migrate an API of an existing app to Azure Functions. You’ll learn how to use Visual Studio Code and the Azure Functions extension to speed up your work.

Serverless computing lets developers deploy applications to the cloud without having to provision or manage a server—or pay for a server when it’s not in use. How to develop serverless code with Apache OpenWhisk, an open source serverless platform. You’ll also get an introduction to OpenWhisk with Bluemix.

In this tutorial, we will build a serverless payment application with Stripe and AWS Lambda.

A video series on how to use Firebase to set up a Web Push Notifications feature from client-side to server-side.

The thread which ties them together is getting communities of sites to work together across domains, but powered by the front end.

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to add authentication to your NextJS application with AWS Amplify. Add a social login button to your website in minutes. Amplify will set up Amazon Cognito for you and it also provides React components you can use.

After a $30K invoice in September, our AWS bill for the month of December is projected to be less than $4,000. Just as important, the new approach is saving our developers hours per day with minimal monitoring.

I have discovered, AWS Lambda and the Serverless Framework make it really not that hard to deploy an application.

But what is Serverless, and why is (or isn’t) it worth considering? In this article I hope to enlighten you a little on these questions.

Serverless opens up tons of possibilities for what you can build right on CodePen! Let’s dig into this and build ourselves a fully functional blog.

Weekly episodes where serverless advocate Jeremy Daly chats with industry experts to explore specific topics in the world of all things serverless.

What if I told you that you could build a Static Site Generator with your own custom CMS without the need for a database?

In this post, we will create a simple serverless comment system to be used on a blog. Creating an application serverlessly has many benefits; reduced costs, little/no maintenance, a faster pace of development, implicit scalability, the list goes on. This example application will use some technologies provided by AWS to create a comment system that will be able to list comments from other users, post new comments and display posts from other users in real time.

Build a chatbot that’s capable of extracting a text content from a picture (optionally translating it to different languages) and sending back the result to the user via SMS (or a phone call).

Learn the basics of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Lambda and Simple Email Service (SES) APIs to help you build your own static site mailer on the Serverless Framework.

The latest face-off between Serverless vs Containerization. Contrary to the general belief, both of these technologies have good things in common.

Learn how to build, deploy, update, delete & test serverless functions using AWS Amplify. We’ll also learn how to add an API endpoint to interact with the functions as well as add authentication & authorization to the APIs working within a React application.

GraphQL is often synonymous with the return of Monolithic architecture. Does this mean the benefits of Serverless are irrelevant? In this talk we explore how Serverless and GraphQL work together, explore ways to stitch individual function schemas, and get hard numbers to fight performance concerns.

This looks dormant since early 2018, but there are 5 episodes here to enjoy.

Get a REST API up and running quickly with the Serverless Framework by using a starter/boilerplate project called the Serverless Starter.

FaaS (functions as a service) is a paradigm shift in cloud – we’ve moved from real servers (physical, data centers) to fake servers (virtualization, containers, etc.) to uploading code and allowing a provider to run it in response to events. Something is quite different there. It is, of course, not possible without the previous innovations and strides, but a shift nonetheless.

Serverless is taking the cloud native world by storm. This new approach promises extraordinary value, from increased developer productivity to dramatic cost savings. In some aspects, serverless also boasts significant security advantages compared to the server model. But as this practical report explains, securing serverless still requires diligence from the developers and application security professionals involved in the process. Guy Podjarny and Liran Tal from Snyk examine the significant benefits that serverless brings to application security, as well as the considerable risks involved when you configure a serverless system. You’ll also learn a platform-agnostic security model known as CLAD that will help you address Code vulnerabilities, Library vulnerabilities, Access and permissions, and Data security.

Walk through a simple example here of creating a StdLib service that responds to incoming messages. The end result will be fully customizable to support whatever SMS messaging functionality you require.

Serverless Stack is a completely free resource to help you build full-stack production ready Serverless applications. First, you’ll learn how to build a note taking app using Serverless and React on AWS. Then you’ll learn the best practices to run your app in production.

This starter kit adds a light layer on top of the Serverless framework, giving you the latest in modern JavaScript—ESNext (Webpack + Babel), testing (Jest), code linting (ESLint), and code formatting (Prettier)—plus the ease and power of Serverless.

Should your EC2 be a Lambda? How much would you save by going serverless? Which of your applications can harness event-driven architecture, blazing-fast deployment, incredible scalability, and decreased cost of AWS Lambda?

The Jamstack has experienced an incredible increase in popularity and usage in recent years. Seeing this trend in web and app development, this report summarizes a closer look at the current state of Jamstack’s adoption and use and displays results from a global survey conducted among hundreds of developers from the US, the UK, Germany, and Australia.

While the content can be published to Firebase using its excellent CLI, a better approach is to have it fully automated. For doing this, first I set up a private repository on GitLab and make it as the remote origin for my local working repository.

Learn how to deploy your Gatsby site to Netlify, host your Strapi Headless CMS and deploy a PostgreSQL database with Heroku and use Cloudinary for images. (Includes a repository, 13+ videos and complete code.)

Create a basic web application that uploads an image to an Amazon Web Services S3 bucket which will trigger an AWS Lambda function that will create several thumbnail images at different sizes. Once the images have been created, they’ll be put into a different S3 bucket and rendered! We’ll be using the Serverless framework to easily setup, manage, and deploy our AWS resources and lambda function. We’ll be using Vue on the front-end to build several components.

JAMStack sites are different. Instead of putting the CMS into the core of all your decisions, you focus on the Front-End. And for good reason. The browser doesn’t care what technology is underneath. It just wants cares about HTML, CSS and JavaScript. So why shouldn’t you?

Build a serverless URL shortener using Amazon Web Services (AWS) Lambda and S3.

In this four-part tutorial, we’ll go over how to set up a serverless function, make it talk to the Stripe API, and connect it to a checkout form that is setup as a Vue application.

A complete understanding of serverless architecture and lambda functions, the benefits it provides to developers and an easy practical guide on how to build a serverless application.

A short video series with the Prismic and Zeit CEOs explaining Serverless, what it brings to the table, global deployments and how it allows to build scalable, fast websites.

The serverless computing concept is an up-and-coming execution model that tries to address the needs of modern, cloud-based software.

Are there still servers involved? Of course, but you don’t manage them, scale them, or pay for them when you aren’t using them. It really is a different model that deserves a new name.