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Build Your Own Shop with the Shopify Storefront API, and Serverless Functions with Eleventy — The first in a series of posts exploring using the Shopify API to build a Jamstack ecommerce site. Phil uses Eleventy, but Ekene Eze shows how to use Gridsome.

AWS SAM Pipelines: Automatically Generate Deployment Pipelines for Serverless Apps — AWS has unveiled the public preview of AWS SAM Pipelines, an extension to their Serverless Application Model (SAM) CLI for creating CI/CD pipelines for serverless apps. Not to be confused with AWS Proton (or maybe it is..)

Fastly's Compute@Edge Platform Goes Generally Available — Given that Compute@Edge, Fastly’s edge-located JavaScript-oriented serverless platform, went into beta almost 2 years ago, I’d have expected a nice blog post, but we get a press release instead. Nonetheless, it’s always nice to see progress – you may recall we recently linked to a fun piece about running DOOM on it.

Scale MySQL Globally in Minutes Without Code — PolyScale intelligently distributes and caches MySQL data to the edge. Implement in minutes without writing code or deploying servers.

Cloudflare Introduces Usage Notifications for Workers — While you’ve always been able to log into Cloudflare Workers’ control panel to see your usage, you can now get notifications proactively sent to you, both in the form of on-demand usage alerts and weekly summaries.

Migrating from Lambda@Edge to CloudFront Functions — You may find this interesting if you’re still figuring out the nuances between the two edge serverless approaches offered by AWS now.

How to Deploy a Java Microservices App to IBM Cloud Code Engine — Serverless isn’t all about JavaScript or AWS Lambda - enterprises have plenty of options too, and it doesn’t get much more enterprise than both Java and IBM, and IBM has a workshop for you.

Deploying a gRPC and gRPC Web API on Google Cloud Run — Leans on Cloud Run’s experimental HTTP/2 support and implements the backend in Go.

Serverlessly Load Testing Amazon API Gateway with Authorization — This post demonstrates using AWS Step Functions for orchestration, AWS Lambda to simulate the load and Amazon Cognito for authentication and authorization.

Serverless Computing: A Security Perspective — I do love an academic paper, especially when it’s reviewing and summing up something that already exists. This paper reviews the security risk of serverless platforms at a very general level.

▶  Goin' Serverless: A Serverless Folk Song — Jeremy Daly (of Serverless Chats fame) has picked up his guitar in his week off and treats us to a serverless themed cover of Blowin’ in the Wind.

A Global Serverless Database for All Your Applications — Fauna is the “Data API” for modern applications. Whether you’re building new microservices or augmenting existing services applications, Fauna lets you simplify code, reduce costs and ship faster. Learn more...

Coming Soon: Expansion of AWS Lambda States to All Functions — Somehow I missed that AWS Lambda had a concept of function ‘states’ introduced in 2019. Used in only limited places till now, they’re coming to all Lambda functions.

Cloud Computing's Destiny: A Single 'Global Computer' Enabled by Serverless? — A director at IBM Research explained how IBM Research is pioneering a serverless computing architecture that will transform the cloud into the “world’s largest computer”.

Deploying Django RESTful APIs as Serverless Applications with Zappa — A thorough walkthrough. Zappa is a toolkit for taking Python apps serverless without any fuss. The article comes from Auth0 so expect some Auth0 authentication support in there for good measure too ;-)

AWS Decoupling: The Big Comparison — A (Python-oriented) comparison of Kinesis, SNS and SQS for decoupling different parts of an app while maintaining communication flows.

How Find Campsite Slots using Dart and AWS Lambda — Emery wanted to go camping in Yosemite but reservations are required. This post covers how he created a bot to look through the official reservations site and notify him when an opening appeared.