Web Rush

Episode 53: Getting Real with Serverless with Colby Tresness

Episode Summary

Colby Tresness helps educate us on Serverless, where functions fit in, and examples of uses for Serverless.

Episode Notes

Recording date: 2019-09-03

John Papa @John_Papa

Ward Bell @WardBell

Dan Wahlin @DanWahlin

Colby Tresness @ColbyTresness

Resources:

• Azure Functions tutorial
• Get the Azure Functions Core Tool
• Get the VS Code extension for Azure Functions
• What is serverless?
• What is Lambda?
• Why create serverless apps?
• Scaling azure functions - consumption vs always on
• Dedicated resources for Azure Functions
• Premium plan for Azure Functions
• FaaS (Functions as Service)
• Serverless Cold Start War
• Cold Starts in Serverless
• AWS Firecracker
• Google cloud functions
• Open FaaS
• Matt Hernandez

Timejumps

• 01:53 What's Ward been up to?
• 04:47 Why serverless?
• 12:02 Sponsor: Ag-grid
• 13:26 Is the consumption plan the best way to go?
• 20:17 Where does functions fit in?
• 30:28 Sponsor: Nrwl
• 31:07 Cold start
• 39:57 Serverless makes for a bad demo
• 42:55 Examples of things that use Serverless
• 45:51 Final tips