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How to Make GraphQL and DynamoDB Play Nicely Together — DynamoDB is super scalable and pretty easy to use (once you get over the data modeling approach) but it’s quite idiomatic. Here’s how to approach integrating it with GraphQL if you don’t want to lean on something like AWS AppSync or Amplify.

Deploying a Serverless Jamstack Site with RedwoodJS, Fauna, and Vercel — A fantastic combination of ideas and technologies here. RedwoodJS is a ‘full stack Jamstack’ framework (created by one of the co-founders of GitHub), Vercel provides the deployment and hosting, and Fauna is a serverless database/data API. Also, we've a newsletter covering Jamstack if you tinker in that space.

How to Create a 'Client-Serverless' JAMstack App with Netlify, Gatsby and Fauna — This is for you if you want a complete walkthrough of building a JAMstack app with Fauna providing data over GraphQL, functions hosted by Netlify, and a Gatsby powered client side app.

Building a Serverless GraphQL API in Node.js with Express and Netlify — A very accessible tutorial that will suit anyone who likes to keep things easy to maintain.

How to Make a Simple CMS with Cloudflare, GitHub Actions and Metalsmith — Let’s say you want to build a CMS but don’t want to mess with the fiddly UI bit.. how about using GitHub itself? Couple that with the Metalsmith static site generator and Cloudflare Workers.. and here you go.

Rethinking Twitter as a Serverless App with FaunaDB — This appears to be a sponsored article promoting FaunaDB (a so-called serverless database) but it’s pretty good.

Building a Full-Stack Serverless App with Cloudflare Workers — Workers is Cloudflare’s edge-located serverless JavaScript platform. This walkthrough demonstrates how to build apps on it and store data on its key-value storage system.

7 Things You Should Know When Getting Started with Serverless APIs — VS Code, JavaScript and Azure-oriented answers to some of the earliest questions you might have about building simple serverless APIs. For beginners, but it’s good.