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Transcript
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to “Serverless” JavaScript
Steve Faulkner @southpolesteve
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Director of Engineering
“Serverless”
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“Serverless”
there are still servers…
servers platforms!
* as a Service
Database-aaS Caching-aaS Logging-aaS Metrics-aaS Servers-aaS
business logic?
Functions-aaS
myApp(request) #=> response
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Lambda + API Gateway
Functions-aaS + Routing-aaS
$ per request
scales magically*
Lambda
write code zip upload function()
node java python C#
shim + rust/go/haskell
function(event,context,cb){ cb(null, ‘Hello World’) }
versioning aliases RAM + CPU logging non-http events
API Gateway
swagger or click a lot
cache/throttle authorization api keys logging/metrics custom domains ssl
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10-20 million calls per day
< $$$
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frontend
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API Gateway S3 Lambda(SSR) html + js
Ember
Ember Riot
Ember Riot Preact
why preact?
components simple small
backend
graphiql.bustle.com
API Gateway Lambda JSON dynamoDB redis*
Ruby
Ruby JS (REST)
Ruby JS (REST) Purescript
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Ruby JS (REST) Purescript JS (GraphQL)
why graphQL?
graphiQL
types
field resolution
dataloader
why serverless?
ops
#noops
#noops
benchmarks fallbacks load testing monitoring #lessops
scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale
scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale
1 -> 1000 rps
1000 -> 0 rps
iteration
single function deployments
$$$$
events API
ec2 ~$2500/mo
lambda api gateway ~$400/mo
why not?
lock in
const express = require(‘express’) const fn = require(./lambda-fn/) const app
= express() app.get('/', (req, res) => { fn.handler(null, null, (err, result) => { res.json(result) }) }); app.listen(3000)
cold functions
const data = loadBigData() // Takes 15s module.exports.handler = function(e,ctx,cb){
processBigData(data, cb) }
long tasks
5 min max
s3(3GB) Lambda Kinesis Firehose Elasticsearch
testing
test in the cloud?
tools!
serverless framework node-lambda apex claudia.js
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npm install -g shep
JavaScript Only no CF swagger webpack environments
shep new my-api shep generate endpoint shep deploy production
questions? Steve Faulkner @southpolesteve