Episode 53: Getting Real with Serverless with Colby Tresness
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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