What Is Serverless?

In this video we will discuss what serverless actually means

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[jakeryker]

It's when you go to a restaurant and no one takes your order.

[balpreetsinghsandhu]

Thanks Brad for everything you have been doing and done for developers.

[RichardSmithers]

We as a developer community would do ourselves a big service by using much better descriptive names. Serverless implies no server yet it does eventually run on a server somewhere. Same confusion we had about NoSQL. It really wasn't about not using SQL anymore, but really about different ways of storing data in a database. After all, you still have to run queries in some language against your data (the Q and L parts of SQL).

[xVidar]

We had a recent e-commerce project that each component of the site was its own lambda function. Very efficient.

[salimsalimi]

Serverless can help you to save time and a lot of headache. But the problem is, we will see more & more we new features and new "functions" from those providers. Those companies, especially (Google, Amazon & Microsoft) will obviously take control of this market and it can be very dangerous for the future of internet and development in general, we will see new generations of developers just relaying of them. They will not learn programming neither development, they will only learn to use those "paied" tools from those big companies and be dependent of them.

[zarghamkhan]

recently i was wondering about it what is serverless and here it comes in my feed. thanks for the video :)

[vinny]

The thing that I find mistefying about "serverless" is that people talk about not having to manage a server, while they open an interface to manage their serverless stuff. They don't have to worry about deploying they say, , while they open their deployment tool.

When you get right down to it, serverless means "using the devops stack from a different company, on a manages server".

[TheGitGuild]

Nice explanation! Also, when I explain serverless functions to other people, I use "Meeseeks" analogy from Rick and Morty. They just do what they supposed to do and gone :)

[francescociulla]

Informative and clean explanation. Thanks James!

[ntewolde]

Thanks James! I'm impressed you did that in one take without stumbling on your words. Teaching is your calling.

[syuo]

Hey James! I'm a subscriber of your channel and Traversy Media. And it was very strange to see you at the first moment. 😃😁 Thank you for this video. I really like it!

[schoolfaqs]

Great video. Watched it from Cameroon. So much covered in 8 mins. Thanks Traversy..

[GameDr]

Thanks for the clear and concise explanation! I send people to this video when they seem confused about serverless.

As for me: I've messed around with it and I go serverless when I'm forced to do so (for some parts of Alexa, for instance), but most of the money and work these days is earmarked for full-stack developers.
Serverless devs are getting $75k while full-stack are getting $185k.

In my experience, the serverless model seems to be favored by younger devs, but I can't tell if that's because they haven't had time to delve into full-stack, because they just don't like full-stack, because the methodology-du-jour is serverless, or because the older devs (me, late-30s) grew up in a full-stack world.

[lardosian]

I'm using aws amplify framework which gives the option to use serverless functions, still learning, using their new DataStore approach which is offline first, local indexed gets synced with cloud database.

[naveengupta]

it's like Firestore, You don't have to deal much with LOTS of stuff but could still avail all the facilities of a backend.

[codeSTACKr]

Great explanation!! I love serverless!!

[coolemur]

So client asks "how much will my website cost?".
You can just answer: "well, it depends...".

Also, now we need "frontless". Then web developer will become "man in the middle" who just buys stuff and sells it to clients. xD

[blufrog]

next.js is a decent serverless framework for react, so useful

[ultravidz]

To avoid cold starts, you can build a mechanism that periodically pings all of your serverless functions to keep them warm.

[ruadeil_zabelin]

As a developer, the term "serverless" bugs me way more than it should. I just can't get around the "but it's not though" part.