Panel:

Charles Max Wood

Aimee Knight

AJ O’Neal

Joe Eames

Special Guests: Gareth McCumskey

In this episode, JavaScript Jabber speaks with Gareth McCumskey about Serverless For JavaScript. Gareth leads the dev team at Expat Explore in Cape Town, South Africa. Gareth and this team specialize in exploring the Serverless realm in JavaScript. The JavaScript Jabbers panel and Gareth discuss the many different types of serverless systems, and when to implement them, how serverless system work, and when to go in the direction of using Serverless.

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

What does it mean to be Serverless?
Since platform as a service.
Microservice on Docker
Firebase
“no backend”
Backend systems
Cloud functions and failure in systems
How do you start to think about a serverless system?
How do decide what to do?
AWS Lambda
Working in a different vendor
Node 4
Programming JS to deploy
Using libraries for NPM
How is works with AWS Lambda
Where is the database?
More point of failure?
Calls to Slack?
Authentication
Micro Services
Elastic Bean Stalk
Static Assets, S3, Managing
Testing the services
Integration testing
And much more!

Links:

@garethmcc
@expatexplore
gareth.mccumskey.com
https://github.com/garethmcc
serverless.com

Picks:

Aimee

AJ

Charles

Serverless Framework
The Storm Light Achieves
Avengers: Infinity War

Gareth

Joe

Wonder - Movie
Gloom In Space - Board Game

Special Guest: Gareth McCumskey.

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JSJ 291: Serverless For JavaScript with Gareth McCumskey

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