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

Links

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Scott: Matt McMuscles YouTube Channel
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