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DVSA: A 'Damn Vulnerable' Serverless Application — A ‘deliberately vulnerable’ app that acts as an aid for anyone who wants to test their serverless security skills in a safe, legal way.

Chromda: An AWS Lambda Function for Capturing Screenshots of Websites — You can pass in the URLs to capture via an SNS topic, SQS queue, scheduled event or over HTTP.

Browser Functions: A New Serverless Platform using Web Browser Execution Engines? — Given that the environment provided by a modern Web browser is now a pretty stable and powerful thing, why not use the same environment on the backend? IBM Research has been experimenting with this idea.

Lambda API: A Lightweight Web Framework for Serverless Apps — A stripped down framework that takes an Express-esque approach to putting together serverless JavaScript apps to run on AWS Lambda behind API Gateway.

How to Build Google Actions using Azure Functions — I haven’t bought one of Google’s smart speakers yet, but if you have and you want to build a function for it..

Sending a Weather Forecast with an AWS Lambda and Twilio — “Recently I needed to get a daily weather forecast, but wanted to get it over text message rather than an app or email..” A nice straightforward walkthrough.

A Browser Extension That Replaces Occurrences of 'serverless' with 'cgi-bin' — Yes, this is a joke. But I chuckled 😄

Building a GraphQL Server on the Edge with Cloudflare Workers — Cloudflare has open sourced workers-graphql-server, a “batteries-included” GraphQL server that you can run straight on their edge serverless platform, Workers. There’s a deployed demo here.

How I'm Writing Serverless Node.js Services These Days — Some thoughts from a developer mostly using serverless on commercial projects.

AWS Lambda Power Tuning — A state machine powered by AWS Step Functions to help you tune your Lambda functions’ memory configuration. Provide it with any Lambda function and it’ll run it under various configurations to let you analyze the best way to go.

Serverless Offline: Local Emulation of AWS Lambda and API Gateway — An interesting alternative to AWS SAM Local that supports Node, Python, and Ruby runtimes.

chrome-aws-lambda: A Chromium Binary for AWS Lambda — A project to make it easy to use a headless Chrome instance from your AWS Lambda serverless functions.

Just Write Code: Improving the Cloudflare Workers Developer Experience — Workers, Cloudflare’s globally distributed serverless platform, gets a CLI developer tool, the ability to run apps on workers.dev without using your own domain, new docs, and a free tier to make it easier to try it out.

A Serverless Component to Transcribe Audio Stored in an S3 Bucket — A template and function for turning an S3 bucket of audio into an S3 bucket of transcriptions via AWS Lambda and Amazon Transcribe.

Building a ‘Serverless’ Chrome Extension — Well, an extension that calls out to a serverless function, at least.