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
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