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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.

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

From Prototype to Production in One Weekend with Serverless — This sort of article is preaching to the choir in this newsletter, but we do love a story of how serverless enables rapid development when it’s necessary.

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 :-)

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.

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.

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.

Why I Pick Heroku Over AWS Lambda (But Not Always) — Another post about weighing up the pros and cons of the serverless billing approach. Sometimes a cheap VPS (or a Heroku dyno) can do what you want for a guaranteed price.

In a Serverless World, We Still Need State — Argues that the programming model of the serverless movement “should not focus only on stateless functions”, adding that by having a focus on state, we gain the “benefit from the advantages of serverless” while still building distributed general-purpose apps.