It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. — Eleanor Roosevelt
Burke Holland thinks that to “build applications without thinking about servers” is a pretty good way to describe serverless, but…
Nobody really thinks about servers when they are writing their code. I mean, I doubt any developer has ever thrown up their hands and said “Whoa, whoa, whoa. Wait just a minute. We’re not declaring any variables in this joint until I know what server we’re going to be running this on.”
Instead of just one idea wrap it … Read article “The 3 Laws of Serverless”
I admit I didn’t know the ins and outs of what the Jamstack is until recently, despite having heard the term so frequently. I think I’m not alone in this. It’s an elusive term — how is it different from what came before, especially considering it shares so many similarities? Thankfully, Divya Sasidharan is breaking down so many aspects of Jamstack every day of January in a series of posts called #JAMuary.
One of the posts in this series … Read article “What makes a site Jamstack?”
… Read article “In Defence of “Serverless” —the term”For now Serverless, to me at least, manages to do a hard job, defining the borders of a very fluid and complex space of possible solutions in which we can build next-generation architectures. It would help if there was not a framework of the same name, it would help if people didn’t first hear it synonymous with Lambda and it would help if people stopped saying “but you know there are servers…”. That being said, I’ve
Indie and enterprise web developers alike are pushing toward a serverless architecture for modern applications. Serverless architectures typically scale well, avoid the need for server provisioning and most importantly are easy and cheap to set up! And that’s why I believe the next evolution for cloud is serverless because it enables developers to focus on writing applications.
With that in mind, let’s build a REST API (because will we ever stop making these?) using 100% serverless technology.… Read article “Build a 100% Serverless REST API with Firebase Functions & FaunaDB”
You might be seeing the term JAMstack popping up more and more frequently. I’ve been a fan of it as an approach for some time.
One of the principles of JAMstack is that of pre-rendering. In other words, it generates your site into a collection of static assets in advance, so that it can be served to your visitors with maximum speed and minimum overhead from a CDN or other optimized static hosting environment.
But if we are going to … Read article “Static First: Pre-Generated JAMstack Sites with Serverless Rendering as a Fallback”
A lot of people are confused about what JAMstack is. The acronym stands for JavaScript, APIs, and Markup, but truly, JAMstack doesn’t have to include all three. What defines JAMstack is that it’s served without web servers. If you consider the history of computing, this type of abstraction isn’t unnatural; rather it’s the inevitable progression this industry has been moving towards.
So, if JAMstack tends to be static by definition, it can’t have dynamic functionality, server-side events, or use a … Read article “Let’s Build a JAMstack E-Commerce Store with Netlify Functions”
One of my favorite developments in software development has been the advent of serverless. As a developer who has a tendency to get bogged down in the details of deployment and DevOps, it’s refreshing to be given a mode of building web applications that simply abstracts scaling and infrastructure away from me. Serverless has made me better at actually shipping projects!
That being said, if you’re new to serverless, it may be unclear how to translate the things that … Read article “Building a Full-Stack Serverless Application with Cloudflare Workers”
Building and maintaining your own website is a great idea. Not only do you own your platform, but you get to experiment with web technologies along the way. Recently, I dug into a concept called serverless functions, starting with my own website. I’d like to share the results and what I learned along the way, so you can get your hands dirty, too!… Read article “Using Netlify Forms and Netlify Functions to Build an Email Sign-Up Widget”
Hey, let’s create a functional calendar app with the JAMstack
I’ve always wondered how dynamic scheduling worked so I decided to do extensive research, learn new things, and write about the technical part of the journey. It’s only fair to warn you: everything I cover here is three weeks of research condensed into a single article. Even though it’s beginner-friendly, it’s a healthy amount of reading. So, please, pull up a chair, sit down and let’s have an adventure.… Read article “Hey, let’s create a functional calendar app with the JAMstack”
I created a website called The Power of Serverless for Front-End Developers over at thepowerofserverless.info a little while back while I was learning about that whole idea. I know a little more now but still have an endless amount to learn. Still, I felt like it was time to revamp that site a bit.
For one thing, just like our little conferences website, the new site is a subdomain of this very site:
https://serverless.css-tricks.com/… Read article “The Power of Serverless v2.0! (Now an Open-Source Gatsby Site Hosted on Netlify)”