112: Guillermo Rauch - Building Serverless Applications with Now

How Now is trying to bring the CDN experience to your server-side code

How the constraints of serverless can nudge you to build more robust solutions

How to talk to a database in a stateless serverless environment

Best practices for deploying serverless code when you have a centralized data store

Why routing should be handled at the Now configuration level instead of in application code

How Now functions are different from microservices, and how you share code between them

How Now bundles your project using builders

Creating a monolithic project with Now that uses different programming languages for each endpoint

How the upcoming "now dev" feature will enable you to simulate a serverless environment locally

A behind-the-scenes look at the Now dashboard, how it's built, and the third-party services that power it