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Using the AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) — As well as being a useful SAM tutorial in its own right, this acts as a comparison between the AWS SAM approach versus that provided by Serverless Framework.

Serverless-Side Rendering with Lambda@Edge — Lambda@Edge is basically AWS Lambda but at edge locations, courtesy of CloudFront and here’s a (very) high level example of how one company uses it.

Why Use AWS Lambda for Data Science? — Serverless is a reasonably good fit for certain types of data science and analytics tasks.

An Introduction to Cloudflare Workers KV — Workers KV is a serverless key-value store designed to be used from Workers serverless functions.

An Accessible Intro to Cloudflare Workers — If you’ve ever wondered why you might use Cloudflare’s Workers platform (a FaaS platform built on V8) rather than AWS Lambda or Azure Functions, this might give you some ideas or at least tempt you to have a play.

Reusing Redis Connections in AWS Lambda — Of course, this only works if the same hot instance of the function is run again, but callbackWaitsForEmptyEventLoop is well worth knowing about.

What It Took to Build a Serverless App That Texts Positive COVID-19 News — Code, a screencast tour, and an article looking at what it took to build a simple serverless app using C#, Azure Functions, and Twilio to text news alerts (but only ones with positive sentiments!)

Injecting Chaos to AWS Lambda Functions with Lambda Layers.. Again! — An update to work done in an article we linked six months ago about using chaos engineering with AWS Lambda functions to test the resiliency of your architecture.

▶  Discussing Building Serverless Applications with 'Now' — An hour long podcast with Guillermo Rauch, the founder of ZEIT and the Now serverless platform, about building and deploying serverless apps on Now.