What Is Serverless?

In this What Is Wednesday I answer the question, What Is Serverless?

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Just like wireless internet has wires somewhere, serverless architectures still have servers somewhere.

What ‘serverless’ really means is that, as a developer you don’t have to think about those servers. You just focus on code.

[norm]

Sorry this was not helpful for me. I'd expect a little real world sample.

Nevertheless great Audio, great Video, great Voice

[GergiH]

Why do I have a feeling that all these fancy sounding new "technologies" and frameworks look only good on paper but in reality they suck ass? I mean if you really think about it, this is only a redistribution of the work and not less work. Not to mention this way your business will always depend on another company too (while probably it depends on multiple other by this point already).
While I loved all these cool JS frameworks at first glance, I start to slowly grow resentful by the chaos the whole JS webdev world is going through constantly. You update any small package and all the things you worked on may just fall apart, not to mention most of these get MAJOR updates like every 3-6 months...

[kamaboko]

A bend on the definition of cloud services. Got to love those marketing people.

[alexwillenbrink]

Just started looking into serverless (the framework) and lambda functions a few days ago. Conceptually it all seems well and good but there's miles of work to be done on both technologies before any sane person uses them on any larger project. Lambda functions sound great in theory but currently it's incredibly painful to do trivial things like adding libraries. Debugging through cloudwatch makes me want to gouge my eyes out. Serverless (the framework) makes writing and deploying lambda functions slightly easier but the setup and organization of the .yml file quickly becomes messy and confusing.

If you want the benefits of being able to scale your server dynamically, why not just write your services in an api and deploy it through elastic beanstock? That way you can write and test your code so much quicker. IMO the benefits of using this approach far outweigh the only real benefit I can see from using lambda functions in that they're most likely cheaper because they aren't always serving.

[sawilliams]

Should be called What Is someone else's Server.

[pardus.panthera]

Found my answer to "serverless".
Thumbs-up !

[EnglishRain]

So am I correct in extrapolating that Heroku and PythonAnywhere are serverless service providers too?

[tbdrosa]

this was really helpful, thank you!! do you happen to have any other videos showing how to use this serverless framework? I've been trying to figure out how to deploy a static, yet responsive email form that allows people to fill out when they visit my website site

[aadams]

Keep the Meteor framework videos coming! More Meteor + Apollo + React please!

[DavidScovil]

Serverless does exist and it can be found by utilizing the SAFE Network. The Alpha 2 network has been running for months and developers are building apps to utilize it now. DDOS attack prevention is built in and you own't have to worry about those types of things.

[quinius]

Nice, i might try that framework to get a better idea of serverless. I would love to see a video or honestly even a few tutorials or pro series on docker as well as CI/ CD in the future

[andrewkiminhwan]

pretty sweet video! love hearing you on Syntax and also on Youtube. It connects my media spheres together

[GrantSR]

You're almost halfway into the video and you are still using circular definitions. Just tell me what I can do and what I need to do to get it set up to be able to do that.

[maotora_tz]

Let's play a game...








Drink every time he says "It's someone else's server" 🍻🍻

[LeoTM]

After faffing around a while, this helped me get started with AWS Lambda:

[bartoszfengler]

Hi Scott, you haven’t mention Firebase neither in this video nor on syntax podcast. What do you think about this platform ?

[omarhegazi]

hay man,
what recording software do you use for your tutorials ?
also if i want 1080 quality should i have a 22inch screen ?

[loftkey]

Is netilfy static webpage hosting considered serverless?

[JaysonGriggs]

IF you want a true serverless application use IPFS with IPNS and OrbitDB

[whatthefunction]

How do you implement a db and manage dns with a server less setup?