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Why you should apply the single responsibility principle to serverless

A fun­ny moment (at 38:50) hap­pened dur­ing Tim Bray’s ses­sion (SRV306) at re:invent 2017. Tim asked the audi­ence if we should have many …

Introduction to commonly used ES6 features | Zell Liew

10th May 2017<p>JavaScript has progressed a ton in the recent years. If you’re learning JavaScript in 2017 and you haven’t touched ES6, you’re missing …

7 Hacks for ES6 Developers

Following the original JavaScript hacks, here’s some new goodies. <i>Coding JavaScript in 2018 is actually fun again!</i><p>Hack #1 — Swap variables<p>Using Array …

How to Share and Sync Code Between Microservices

A microservice architecture is great for building scalable codebases with less coupling, better separation of concerns, improved resilience, …

Applying the Twelve-Factor App Methodology to Serverless Applications | Amazon Web Services

The Twelve-Factor App methodology is twelve best practices for building modern, cloud-native applications. With guidance on things like …

Serverless — Beyond the over simplistic todo apps into the world of reality (part 1)

Besides the shitty todo apps that are so conveniently demonstrated for all new technologies I wondered what the <b>world of</b> <b>serverless</b> would <b>really</b> be like.<p>…

The curse of dead Lambda functions

Most developers agree that AWS Lambda is a great service. It’s cheap and easy to start with. It’s scalable. And most importantly — it just works.<p>But …

Serverless Architecture Boilerplate

Structure<p>Functions<p>HTTP Trigger Function (API Gateway)<p>Cloudwatch Events Functions (Cron)<p>Lambda Schedule Docs<p>Deploy full services<p>Deploy a function<p>Get …

Awesome Scalability, Availability, and Stability Back-end Design Patterns

An updated and curated list of selected readings to illustrate Scalability, Availability, and Stability Design Patterns in Back-end Development. …

AWS Lambda Go vs. Node.js performance benchmark: updated 🔥

Just this week AWS announced the release of Go for their Lambda service. This is pretty exciting as Go straddles a great niche between Java and …

Creating A Highly Scalable Website Monitoring Service in half an hour using AWS Lambda

Lambda functions are a truly awesome bit of technology, if you haven’t read up about my theory that serverless and more specifically AWS Lambdas are …

Operationalizing Serverless: Five Key Considerations

Andy Warzon in aws 6 minutes to read<p>So you’ve built your first Serverless app (if you haven’t, start here) and are ready to go into production. Given …

The Death of Microservice Madness in 2018

En Español | Reddit Thread | Hacker News ThreadMicroservices became a very popular topic over the last couple of years1. 'Microservice madness' goes …

Learning these 5 microservice patterns will make you a better engineer

For a lot of engineers, getting into microservices can be tough, because it’s hard to decide where lines should be drawn. For me, 99% of services …

Using AWS CodePipeline, AWS CodeBuild, and AWS Lambda for Serverless Automated UI Testing | Amazon Web Services

Testing the user interface of a web application is an important part of the development lifecycle. In this post, I’ll explain how to automate UI …

Building a Serverless REST API with Node.js and MongoDB

The Serverless movement has gained a bit of momentum in the past few months. Everybody seems to be talking about it. Some would even call it a …

How to build a Serverless URL shortener using AWS Lambda and S3

Using graphics from SAP Scenes PackThroughout this post we’ll be building a serverless URL shortener using Amazon Web Services (AWS) Lambda and S3. …

How to use AWS Fargate and Lambda for long

AWS dropped so many serverless announcements at re:Invent, the community is still scrambling to make sense of them all. This post is all about AWS …

AWS AppSync — Up and Running with GraphQL in the Cloud

The AWS AppSync GraphQL service offers real-time updates and built-in offline support along with first class integration with ElasticSearch, …

JWT to authenticate Servers API’s

Part 2: JWT to authenticate Servers API’s<p>What is JWT? (Recap)<p>As per <i>openid</i><p>JSON Web Token (JWT) is a means of representing claims to be transferred …

Introducing Postlight’s Modern Serverless Starter Kit

Exactly the right amount of boilerplate to get you writing Serverless JavaScript in seconds<p>You <i>could</i> spend a couple hours configuring each new …

The Comprehensive Guide to Serverless Architecture

“<b>Serverless is like a black magic</b>!”<p>I didn’t say that! Hold on!<p>Last weekend, one of our client, a startup CTO, told me how serverless architecture has …

Build Custom “Serverless” Push Notifications for Any Website in 6 Minutes with StdLib and PhantomJS

Push notifications are a great way to stay informed on content you’re interested in. However, not every website supports them. For example, have you …

Introduction

<i>Part 1:</i> Running a scalable & reliable GraphQL endpoint with Serverless <i><br>Part 2:</i> AppSync Backend: AWS Managed GraphQL Service <i><br>Part 3:</i> AppSync Frontend: …

Awesome Serverless

A curated list of resources regarding the Serverless Framework (formerly JAWS) and the serverless architecture.<p><i>Inspired by the awesome list</b> …

Amazon's AWS Cloud9 IDE lets you write, test, and debug code online

Amazon just unveiled AWS Cloud9, a web-based IDE that supports more than 40 popular programming languages, as well as a bunch of the company’s cloud infrastructure integrations, and collaboration tools.<p>It’s essentially a repackaged version of the c9.io IDE, which Amazon acquired in 2016; it’s now …

AWS re:Invent 2017: Securing Serverless Applications Step-by-step (SRV308)

Serverless Framework: Lambdas Invoking Lambdas

This article is adapted from my online course Intro to The Serverless Framework.<p>There are times when you may want one Lambda in your project to …

☁️Awesome Serverless

A curated list of awesome services, solutions and resources for serverless / nobackend applications.<p>Table of contents<p>What is "serverless" …

Serverless Authorizer

Example of a service that uses API Gateway custom authorizer feature to authorize your endpoints.<p>Usage<p>serverless install --url …