Serverless applications are highly distributed, where each function performs a focused task and depends on countless other services for the remainder. For example, a REST API endpoint with a lambda function will have relatively little code, but it will have dependencies on other services like: Invoking other functions which provide Read more…
Cron jobs are everywhere—from scripts that run your data pipelines to automated cleanup of your development machine, from cleaning up unused resources in the cloud to sending email notifications. These tasks tend to happen unnoticed in the background. And in any business, there are bound to be many tasks that Read more…
Overview As you continue to develop serverless applications, their complexity and scope can start to grow. That growth brings a need to follow structured practices to deploy your applications in a way that minimizes bugs, maintains application security, and allows you to develop more rapidly. This post will review a Read more…
Overview Now that you’ve created and deployed a basic API from Part 1, let’s take a few more steps towards making that API more resilient and secure. This post will still be based on the example repo, and will follow the same “commit-per-step” format as Part 1, which contains Steps Read more…
Update: This post is based on the beta version of Serverless Components, which is not compatible with the latest, and much faster, GA version. Please check out the latest docs for more up to date information. Ever since we released Serverless Components, we’ve seen huge demand for an AppSync component. Read more…
The Serverless Framework has amazing monitoring and alerting; however, until today, this has only been available for the Node runtime. Now, we are adding support for Python to the Serverless Framework Dashboard to enable monitoring, alerts, and much more for your Python serverless applications. Python is the second most popular Read more…
Overview With the recent updates to the serverless-azure-functions plugin, it is now easier than ever to create, deploy and maintain a real-world REST API running on Azure Functions. This post will walk you through the first few steps of doing that. To see the full end-to-end example used to create Read more…
Today, I’m excited to announce a project I’ve been working on over the past few months. It provides a simple, fast and efficient way to deploy your Next.js applications to AWS using CloudFront, [email protected] and S3. The project is the Serverless Next.js Component which you can use with the Serverless Read more…
Functions-as-a-Service (FaaS) offerings such as AWS Lambda are key components in modern Serverless application stacks as they receive and process the event data generated by other cloud services such as storage buckets or databases. AWS announced AWS Lambda, their FaaS service, back in late 2014 alongside an S3 integration which Read more…
One of the most popular features of the Serverless Framework is its ability to provide monitoring with automatic instrumentation. By signing up for a free Serverless Framework account and deploying your service, it is automatically instrumented to capture all of the data needed to provide metrics, alerts, notifications, stacktraces and Read more…