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Building a Serverless API with Deno and Begin — Deno is particularly well suited to serverless use cases, and while there are layers to use it directly on AWS Lambda, this post looks at Begin which provides powerful tooling and abstractions to make the process smoother.

Finding Winning Stocks with Serverless Web Scrapers — Before you copy Miguel, nothing is guaranteed 😁 I do love to see people using serverless technologies (Lambda and DynamoDB in this case) for such simple, scrappy ends. I’ve done some similar work in monitoring Web pages for changes, as well.

Lambda Containers with Rails; A Perfect Match? — Ruby has long been a bit of an 'also ran' in the serverless space (it took years for Lambda to support it), yet with its focus on rapid, friendly development, it's a good fit. Ken Collins is perhaps the leader in moving entire Rails apps onto AWS Lambda (using Lamby) and he's spoken about his work...

How to Create a AWS Lambda Layer of Your Ruby Gem Dependencies — Throwing Ruby code into the cloud with AWS Lambda is easy, but getting the heavier dependencies (e.g. nokogiri, or the http gem) working isn’t quite as easy. I worked out how to do it sans framework.

Serverless Transformation on a Brazilian News Media Outlet — The whys, hows, good, bad and the ugly of serverless transformation at Nexo Jornal.

Lambda Extensions Are Changing What It Means to Be Serverless — “Serverless in 2021 will look nothing like serverless in 2020.”

A Quick Review of the New Azure Functions "Retry Policy" — We mentioned Azure Functions’ retry policies last week, but here’s one user’s actual experience of them.

Going from 0 to 11 with REST APIs on Azure Functions — “Why developing APIs with Azure Functions is a good great the best thing”

'Basic Authentication' with Lambda@Edge — And when it says ‘basic authentication’ it literally means HTTP-level basic authentication – the now rather old-school way of securing access to systems through a native browser password modal and Authorization header. But does it work? Yes.

Join Me at Microsoft Create:Serverless: Conversations with Community and Industry Experts — Me and a whole amazing raft of great serverless speakers and community members are getting together on Sep 30 for a half-day virtual event. If you want to join in, you can learn more and register here (it’s free).

Running a Serverless OAuth Proxy with Grant — Grant is a JavaScript-powered OAuth proxy that, till now, has needed to be run in a typical HTTP servery way, but.. it now supports AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, Cloud Functions and Vercel out of the box!

Serverless September: Daily Serverless Content — We’ll link to some of the articles as the month progresses, but if you want to keep up to date, each day this page will link to new articles posted as part of Azure’s Serverless September serverless content push. It won’t surprise you most articles will be covering Azure Functions, of course :-)

Implementing a Serverless Passwordless Login with FaunaDB — FaunaDB is a globally distributed database targeted at serverless use cases.

Troubleshooting Binaries in AWS Lambda — If you’ve worked with binary dependencies on AWS Lambda, you’ll probably have run into a few tricky issues to clear up (I certainly have!). Alejandro provides some tips to keep in mind.