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Direct link to the article Netlify Background Functions
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Netlify Background Functions

As quickly as I can:

  • AWS Lambda is great: it allows you to run server-side code without really running a server. This is what “serverless” largely means.
  • Netlify Functions run on AWS Lambda and make them way easier to use.
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Chris Coyier on Nov 10, 2020
Direct link to the article WordPress-Powered Landing Pages on a Totally Different Site via Cloudflare Workers
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WordPress-Powered Landing Pages on a Totally Different Site via Cloudflare Workers

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What if you have some content on one site and want to display that content on another site? We can do this in the browser no problem. We can fetch it, and plunk it onto the page.

Ajax, right? Ugh. …

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Shared by Chris Coyier on Jul 22, 2020
Direct link to the article Rethinking Twitter as a Serverless App
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Rethinking Twitter as a Serverless App

In a previous article, we showed how to build a GraphQL API with FaunaDB. We’ve also written a series of articles [1, 2, 3, 4] explaining how traditional databases built for global scalability have …

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Direct link to the article #165: Building Your Backend with Serverless Functions
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#165: Building Your Backend with Serverless Functions

David Wells & Chris Coyier talk about how you can build an app hosted on Netlify statically but still have a backend database to power it. We use the classic TODO app example where the database is powered by FaunaDB …

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Chris Coyier on Oct 18, 2018
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