Serverless / Cloud Functions - Part 1

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Wes Bos

Js, Technology, Css, Html5, Tech News, Webdevelopment, News, Javascript, Html

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

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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Transcript

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0:00.0	You're listening to Syntax, the podcast with the tastiest web development treats out there.
0:06.0	Strap yourself in and get ready. Here is Scott Telinsky and West Boss.
0:10.5	It's supper time! Open up wide.
0:14.0	We got some entrees for you today.
0:18.0	Although we're going to break them down into smaller pieces
0:21.0	so that you can much more.
0:23.0	No, I was going to say the tasty treats were breaking down in the smaller pieces.
0:30.0	I'll set you up for that one in just a second.
0:32.0	No, it's okay We could keep going.
0:33.0	I think this is funny, this is funny in this way.
0:37.0	Today we are talking about serverless and cloud functions.
0:41.0	What are they? What are the providers, the different
0:44.6	frameworks that you can use with them, the ups and downs? Why would you want to use
0:49.6	serverless? Is there still a server if it's serverless? We'll get that joke out of the way immediately.
0:57.0	There still is a server somewhere. No one knows where, but at some point there's still a server running.
1:04.0	So that's kind of what we're going to talk about today.
1:07.0	Today we're sponsored by dot-tech domains, which is in the name, their dot-tech domain names,
1:13.6	and Fresh Books, which is Cloud Accounting.
1:15.8	We'll talk about them both part way through the episode.
1:18.4	How are you doing today, Scott Tolinsky?
1:20.3	Doing good.
1:20.9	If it sounds like I'm loopy, it's because I am a little loopy. Yeah, no.
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