Awesome Serverless

A curated list of resources about all things serverless.

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Table of contents

• General
• Blogs
• Blog posts
• Screencasts
• Talks
• Projects
• Related projects
• Serverless Framework Plugins
• Literature / Education
• Professional services

General

• Serverless.com - Serverless.com homepage.
• Documentation - Serverless.com Documentation.
• Forum - Official Serverless forum.
• Meetups - List with all official Serverless meetups.
• Stack Overflow - Stack Overflow questions.
• ServerlessConf - Serverless specialized conference.
• Serverless Weekly - A weekly newsletter about serverless architectures and paradigms.
• Serverless working group - CNCF serverless working group.
• Serverless Summit - Conference about serverless technologies / computing.
• Serverless Plugin Directory - A directory of Serverless Framework plugins.
• OpenEvents - A specification for describing event data in a common way.
• The power of serverless - Overview why serverless is a great choice - especially for frontend developers.

Blogs

• Serverless Code - Blog about everything serverless related.
• Serverless Zone - Everything Serverless related.
• Serverless Blog - Official blog of the Serverless Framework.
• Serverless Stories - Medium publication from the team behind the Serverless Framework.
• Going Serverless - Blog about serverless architectures and the Serverless Framework.
• Foobar Tech - Blog about serverless architectures and programming in general.
• Serverless Guy - Blog about a “life without servers”.
• Serverless City - News, products, opinions, howtos, and everything you need to know to be a Serverless Citizen.
• FaaS Forward - Learning & living on the FaaS-Lane.
• ServerlessOps - Design, build and run reliable serverless systems.

Blog posts

• Serverless computing requires a shift in mindset - Why IT leaders must communicate business value when talking about serverless solutions.
• Hosted vs. installable serverless platforms - Survey which covers hosted vs. installable serverless solutions.
• Launching TriggerMesh - TriggerMesh (serverless management platform on top of knative) announcement blog post.
• Serverless without containers - How Cloudflare utilizes the v8 engine to isolate and run Cloudflare Workers written in Node.js.
• Takeaways from ServerlessNYC 2018 - Key takeaways from the ServerlessNYC 2018 conference.
• Serverless & Functions - Not one and the same - Post about the differences between serverless computing and FaaS.
• Serverless for startups - Why serverless is the fastest way to build a technology idea.
• Serverless monitoring, security, frameworks, tools - Post about the different serverless monitoring, security, framework and tooling solutions.
• Writing portable serverless applications - Post on how to write portable serverless applications that can run on different compute environments.
• Serverless sea change - Article which defines and explains how serverless is different from other application architectures.
• Serverless Instant Checkout Links with Square - An example showing how to build serverless instant checkout links backed by Square APIs.

Screencasts

• Build apps faster with Azure Serverless - Walkthrough of the Microsoft Azure Functions serverless offering.
• FaaS performance comparison - Comparing serverless function performance.
• Introduction to Kubeless - Video which introduces the Kubeless project and their Serverless Framework integration.
• What’s new in Serverless v1.22 - Video walkthrough about all the new features in Serverless v1.22.
• Kuhiro: Birth of the NearCloud - Video which explains the concepts of NearCloud.
• How to build a regionally distributed serverless architecture - Webinar on how to build a regionally distributed serverless architecture.
• Autoscaling DynamoDB with the Serverless Framework - Walkthrough on how to use DynamoDB autoscaling functionality with the Serverless Framework.
• Building React + Serverless full stack apps - How to build full stack apps using React and the Serverless Framework.
• Become a serverless black belt - AWS online tech talk on how to optimize serverless applications.
• Jazz serverless developer teaser - T-Mobiles Jazz serverless developer teaser.

Talks

• The serverless and event-driven future - How the Event Gateway enables a new way to build event-driven applications.
• Serverless, Not So FaaS - CloudNativeCon 2018 Keynote by Kelsey Hightower, Kubernetes Community Member, Google.
• Bringing serverless to Rock ’n Roll - Podcast on how Fender utilizes serverless technologies for their digital learning platform.
• Using the Event Gateway to build serverless multi-cloud applications - How the Event Gateway can be used to build multi-cloud applications.
• Deep dive into serverless - Slide deck about serverless application development.
• Discussing serverless - Podcast about the serverless landscape.
• Confusion in the land of the serverless - Sam Newmans talk about serverless technologies at GOTO 2018.
• Serverless state of the union - Austen Collins keynote talk about serverless and the state of the union at the Open Source Summit 2018.
• ServerlessConf SF 2018 videos - Talks from the ServerlessConf SF 2018.
• Serverless at iRobot - How serverless technologies are used at iRobot.

Projects

• Official joke API - Vue Jokester application backend.
• Event Gateway Getting Started - Walkthrough application for using the Event Gateway.
• Utils - General Serverless utilities.
• CloudWatch public metrics - Expose AWS CloudWatch metrics as a public HTML page.
• Invoicely - Invoice automation tool.
• World Cup Slackbot - Post 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia™ matches events to Slack.
• Serverless Express - Run your unmodified express app on AWS Lambda via the Serverless Framework.
• TypeScript composite monorepo - Yarn / Lerna workspaces with Typescript 3.0 composite references using nohoist for compatible serverless application packaging.
• Next serverless - Deploys your next.js application to AWS Lambda.
• Serverless Central - Sample Lambda monorepo.
• Tipe - Next generation serverless CMS.
• Spiderless - A web spider / scraper / website change detector built with Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB and SNS.
• PriceTrack - API / Website for E-commerce price tracking. Built with Firebase functions and Firebase Hosting.

Related projects

• FaaS boilerplates - Boilerplates for FaaS offerings that work in conjunction with Hasura GraphQL Engine’s event triggers.
• CloudCompose - An open community marketplace for serverless functions and workflows.
• Mutton - A Python shim library for better AWS Lambda handlers.
• Begin - Create AWS serverless apps, APIs, and sites with databases, sessions, and full CI/CD.
• Operiant - Connect your event streams to actions.
• TriggerMesh - Serverless cloud with a library of event triggers to enable hybrid cloud and workload portability.
• Handly - A wrapper for serverless handlers to prevent silly mistakes.
• Serverless boilerplate - Minimal yet super-functional Serverless boilerplate.
• Firecracker - Secure and fast microVMs for serverless computing.
• Cirrus - Serverless machine learning framework.
• OpenFaaS - Serverless Functions Made Simple for Docker and Kubernetes.
• OpenFaaS Cloud - OpenFaaS Cloud: multi-user serverless functions driven by git.

Serverless Framework Plugins

• Local environment - Set local environment variables.
• Offline SSM - Read SSM parameters from a .env file instead of AWS.
• Nocode - Deploy nocode via the Serverless Framework.
• Canary deployments - Implement canary deployments of AWS Lambda functions.
• Flow-based programming - Flow-based programming plugin for Serverless.
• Go serverless - GoFormation for the Serverless Framework. Create Serverless configs with Go structs.
• Event Gateway - Event Gateway plugin for the Serverless Framework.
• Fn - Fn provider plugin.
• Cloudflare Workers - Provider plugin for Cloudflare Workers.
• S3 Deploy - Plugin to deploy files to an S3 Bucket.

Literature / Education

• Going serverless - Building scalable applications with the Serverless Framework and AWS Lambda.
• AWS Lambda, Kinesis & Serverless Framework - Udemy Course on the Serverless Framework.
• The Serverless Framework: Quick Start - Video course which provides a quick start for the Serverless Framework.
• Intro to the Serverless Framework - Introduction course for the Serverless Framework.
• ServerlessLab - Effective serverless, AWS Lambda and Node.js training.
• Serverless Applications with AWS - Introduction course with AWS and Serverless Framework. Build a production like app using the most common AWS Serverless services.
• Event Gateway Workshop - Learn what the Event Gateway is, how it works and build your first event-driven multi-cloud application.
• Serverless streaming architectures - Serverless streaming architectures and best practices.
• Develop a Serverless Backend using Node.js on AWS Lambda - Learn how to create a serverless API and connecting it to DynamoDB leveraging Lambda’s new async / await syntax.
• Agile development for serverless platforms - How to apply agile practices in fully serverless architectures.
• AI as a Service A book that teaches you how to harness the power of cloud-based AI services and serverless computing. An engineering approach to serverless AI.

Professional services

• Cloudonaut - Consultancy.
• PromptWorks - Consultancy.
• Craftship - Consultancy.
• EPX Labs - Consultancy.
• Red Badger - Agency.
• Langa - Agency.
• Emerging Technology Advisors - Consultancy.
• OneSpeed - Agency.
• Seraro - Agency.
• Superluminar - Agency.