Serverless / Cloud Functions - Part 1

In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk about serverless and cloud providers - the benefits, limitations, providers and more!

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Show Notes

4:05 - What is Serverless?

• URL driven
• Startup/shut down (Heroku works this way)
• Digital Ocean droplet works differently

8:15 - What are the benefits?

• Scale up specific functions rather than everything - aka potentially cheaper
• Security - your singular server instance being hacked is not a possibility
• Less knowledge overhead required
  • You don’t need to manage your own server
  • Empowers front-end devs to do more
• Faster deploys
  • Only re-deploy the code that changed

17:05 - What can you host on Serverless?

• Static Files - SPA (React)
• Single functions
• It can be in JS, Python, GO, PHP

18:07 - What can’t you host on Serverless?

• Entire applications
• Large apps have slow coldstarts
• 500mb limit

23:40 - Raw Providers

• Google Cloud
• Azure
• AWS Lambda
• SAP
• Red Hat
• IBM Cloud Functions
• Cloudflare Workers
• Kind of cool because they work like service workers where you can intercept any HTTP request

27:33 - Easy Providers + Frameworks

• Begin + Arc.codes
• Zeit Now + Next.js
• Anything + Serverless
• Netlify
• AWS Amplify
• Apex Up - TJ Holowaychuk
• Open Faas + Digital Ocean

Links

• Heroku
• Digital Ocean
• Meteor Galaxy
• Codepen Radio: Preprocessors and Lambda
• Zeit Now
• Wes’ tweet about serverless
• @maxsteenbergen
• uses.tech
• Google Cloud
• Azure
• AWS Lambda
• SAP
• Red Hat
• IBM Cloud Functions
• Cloudflare Workers
• Begin
• Arc.codes
• Severless
• Netlify
• AWS Amplify
• Apex Up
• Open Faas
• @tjholowaychuk
• Scott tries Begin.com
• SyntaxFM Reddit

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