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A curated list of resources about all things serverless.

General
Blogs
Blog posts
Screencasts
Talks
Projects
Related projects
Serverless Framework Plugins
Literature / Education
Professional services

General

Serverless.com – Serverless.com homepage.
Documentation – Serverless.com Documentation.
Forum – Official Serverless forum.
Meetups – List with all official Serverless meetups.
Stack Overflow – Stack Overflow questions.
ServerlessConf – Serverless specialized conference.
Serverless Weekly – A weekly newsletter about serverless architectures and paradigms.
Serverless working group – CNCF serverless working group.
Serverless Summit – Conference about serverless technologies / computing.
Serverless Plugin Directory – A directory of Serverless Framework plugins.
OpenEvents – A specification for describing event data in a common way.
The power of serverless – Overview why serverless is a great choice – especially for frontend developers.

Blogs

Serverless Code – Blog about everything serverless related.
Serverless Zone – Everything Serverless related.
Serverless Blog – Official blog of the Serverless Framework.
Serverless Stories – Medium publication from the team behind the Serverless Framework.
Going Serverless – Blog about serverless architectures and the Serverless Framework.
Foobar Tech – Blog about serverless architectures and programming in general.
Serverless Guy – Blog about a “life without servers”.
Serverless City – News, products, opinions, howtos, and everything you need to know to be a Serverless Citizen.
FaaS Forward – Learning & living on the FaaS-Lane.
ServerlessOps – Design, build and run reliable serverless systems.

Blog posts

Serverless computing requires a shift in mindset – Why IT leaders must communicate business value when talking about serverless solutions.
Hosted vs. installable serverless platforms – Survey which covers hosted vs. installable serverless solutions.
Launching TriggerMesh – TriggerMesh (serverless management platform on top of knative) announcement blog post.
Serverless without containers – How Cloudflare utilizes the v8 engine to isolate and run Cloudflare Workers written in Node.js.
Takeaways from ServerlessNYC 2018 – Key takeaways from the ServerlessNYC 2018 conference.
Serverless & Functions - Not one and the same – Post about the differences between serverless computing and FaaS.
Serverless for startups – Why serverless is the fastest way to build a technology idea.
Serverless monitoring, security, frameworks, tools – Post about the different serverless monitoring, security, framework and tooling solutions.
Writing portable serverless applications – Post on how to write portable serverless applications that can run on different compute environments.
Serverless sea change – Article which defines and explains how serverless is different from other application architectures.
Serverless Instant Checkout Links with Square – An example showing how to build serverless instant checkout links backed by Square APIs.

Screencasts

Build apps faster with Azure Serverless – Walkthrough of the Microsoft Azure Functions serverless offering.
FaaS performance comparison – Comparing serverless function performance.
Introduction to Kubeless – Video which introduces the Kubeless project and their Serverless Framework integration.
What’s new in Serverless v1.22 – Video walkthrough about all the new features in Serverless v1.22.
Kuhiro: Birth of the NearCloud – Video which explains the concepts of NearCloud.
How to build a regionally distributed serverless architecture – Webinar on how to build a regionally distributed serverless architecture.
Autoscaling DynamoDB with the Serverless Framework – Walkthrough on how to use DynamoDB autoscaling functionality with the Serverless Framework.
Building React + Serverless full stack apps – How to build full stack apps using React and the Serverless Framework.
Become a serverless black belt – AWS online tech talk on how to optimize serverless applications.
Jazz serverless developer teaser – T-Mobiles Jazz serverless developer teaser.

Talks

The serverless and event-driven future – How the Event Gateway enables a new way to build event-driven applications.
Serverless, Not So FaaS – CloudNativeCon 2018 Keynote by Kelsey Hightower, Kubernetes Community Member, Google.
Bringing serverless to Rock ‘n Roll – Podcast on how Fender utilizes serverless technologies for their digital learning platform.
Using the Event Gateway to build serverless multi-cloud applications – How the Event Gateway can be used to build multi-cloud applications.
Deep dive into serverless – Slide deck about serverless application development.
Discussing serverless – Podcast about the serverless landscape.
Confusion in the land of the serverless – Sam Newmans talk about serverless technologies at GOTO 2018.
Serverless state of the union – Austen Collins keynote talk about serverless and the state of the union at the Open Source Summit 2018.
ServerlessConf SF 2018 videos – Talks from the ServerlessConf SF 2018.
Serverless at iRobot – How serverless technologies are used at iRobot.

Projects

Official joke API – Vue Jokester application backend.
Event Gateway Getting Started – Walkthrough application for using the Event Gateway.
Utils – General Serverless utilities.
CloudWatch public metrics – Expose AWS CloudWatch metrics as a public HTML page.
Invoicely – Invoice automation tool.
World Cup Slackbot – Post 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia™ matches events to Slack.
Serverless Express – Run your unmodified express app on AWS Lambda via the Serverless Framework.
TypeScript composite monorepo – Yarn / Lerna workspaces with Typescript 3.0 composite references using nohoist for compatible serverless application packaging.
Next serverless – Deploys your next.js application to AWS Lambda.
Serverless Central – Sample Lambda monorepo.
Tipe – Next generation serverless CMS.
Spiderless – A web spider / scraper / website change detector built with Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB and SNS.
PriceTrack – API / Website for E-commerce price tracking. Built with Firebase functions and Firebase Hosting.

Related projects

FaaS boilerplates – Boilerplates for FaaS offerings that work in conjunction with Hasura GraphQL Engine’s event triggers.
CloudCompose – An open community marketplace for serverless functions and workflows.
Mutton – A Python shim library for better AWS Lambda handlers.
Begin – Create AWS serverless apps, APIs, and sites with databases, sessions, and full CI/CD.
Operiant – Connect your event streams to actions.
TriggerMesh – Serverless cloud with a library of event triggers to enable hybrid cloud and workload portability.
Handly – A wrapper for serverless handlers to prevent silly mistakes.
Serverless boilerplate – Minimal yet super-functional Serverless boilerplate.
Firecracker – Secure and fast microVMs for serverless computing.
Cirrus – Serverless machine learning framework.
OpenFaaS – Serverless Functions Made Simple for Docker and Kubernetes.
OpenFaaS Cloud – OpenFaaS Cloud: multi-user serverless functions driven by git.

Serverless Framework Plugins

Local environment – Set local environment variables.
Offline SSM – Read SSM parameters from a .env file instead of AWS.
Nocode – Deploy nocode via the Serverless Framework.
Canary deployments – Implement canary deployments of AWS Lambda functions.
Flow-based programming – Flow-based programming plugin for Serverless.
Go serverless – GoFormation for the Serverless Framework. Create Serverless configs with Go structs.
Event Gateway – Event Gateway plugin for the Serverless Framework.
Fn – Fn provider plugin.
Cloudflare Workers – Provider plugin for Cloudflare Workers.
S3 Deploy – Plugin to deploy files to an S3 Bucket.

Literature / Education

Going serverless – Building scalable applications with the Serverless Framework and AWS Lambda.
AWS Lambda, Kinesis & Serverless Framework – Udemy Course on the Serverless Framework.
The Serverless Framework: Quick Start – Video course which provides a quick start for the Serverless Framework.
Intro to the Serverless Framework – Introduction course for the Serverless Framework.
ServerlessLab – Effective serverless, AWS Lambda and Node.js training.
Serverless Applications with AWS – Introduction course with AWS and Serverless Framework. Build a production like app using the most common AWS Serverless services.
Event Gateway Workshop – Learn what the Event Gateway is, how it works and build your first event-driven multi-cloud application.
Serverless streaming architectures – Serverless streaming architectures and best practices.
Develop a Serverless Backend using Node.js on AWS Lambda – Learn how to create a serverless API and connecting it to DynamoDB leveraging Lambda’s new async / await syntax.
Agile development for serverless platforms – How to apply agile practices in fully serverless architectures.
AI as a Service A book that teaches you how to harness the power of cloud-based AI services and serverless computing. An engineering approach to serverless AI.