Best of Serverless — March 2023
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ByteByteGo·3y
From 0 to Millions: A Guide to Scaling Your App - Part 3
In the final two parts of this series, we examine the impact of recent trends like cloud and serverless computing. We explore how these trends alter the way we build applications, especially for early-stage startups where time-to-market is critical, and provide insights on how to incorporate these modern approaches when creating your next big hit.
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Community Picks·3y
5 Ways to Modernize a Web Application
Explore 5 different ways to modernize a web application, including using composable software, micro frontends, updating the design/CSS, breaking down a monolith into microservices, and utilizing serverless functions. These techniques can help improve scalability, maintainability, and performance.
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From 0 to Millions: A Guide to Scaling Your App - Final Part
As traffic continues to scale, the modern application stack will start to run into issues. As traffic grows, the combined read and write traffic could start to overwhelm the serverless database. The first place that could break is the database tier. For a read-heavy application, we should consider migrating the read load to read replicas.
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Vercel·3y
Framework-defined infrastructure – Vercel
Framework-defined infrastructure is an evolution of infrastructure as code (IaC) where the deployment environment automatically provisions infrastructure derived from the framework and the applications written in it. It improves the development experience by providing portability, eliminating manual configuration, and allowing focused product code writing. Examples include automated provision of serverless functions, edge computing resources, and image optimization systems.
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Better Programming·3y
The Solution Architect’s Guide to Serverless
Allen Helton: Serverless services are great, but let’s be honest — not every business has the budget to upskill its entire engineering staff. He says you can use serverless services in any software, be a Kubernetes-based app, an on-prem solution, or a serverless API.
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Spin 1.0 — The Developer Tool for Serverless WebAssembly
Spin 1.0 is an open source developer tool for building serverless applications with WebAssembly. It supports multiple programming languages, provides a built-in key/value store for persisting state, and allows for distributing applications using registry services.
