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Building an automated unit testing pipeline for serverless applications

CircleCI

This tutorial covers: Using the Jest framework to set up unit testing for a serverless application. The Serverless framework is an open-source framework written in Node.js that simplifies the development and deployment of AWS Lambda functions. It builds on the learnings from the Deploying a serverless application blog post.

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The Future of Serverless is … Functionless?

Stackery

I first heard about this pattern a few years ago at a ServerlessConf from a consultant who was helping a “big bank” convert to serverless. With AppSync, DynamoDB Tables, SQL Databases (via Aurora Serverless), Lambda Functions, and ElasticSearch domains have all been elevated as first-class “Data Sources” for GraphQL resolvers.

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Manage and Authenticate Users with Netlify Identity

Netlify

Authenticating users is a no-brainer”, said no one ever. One of my favorite strategies in web app development is getting a leg up by having someone else do the hard part. trigger serverless functions on validation, signup, or login events. trigger serverless functions on validation, signup, or login events.

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Manage and Authenticate Users with Netlify Identity

Netlify

Authenticating users is a no-brainer”, said no one ever. One of my favorite strategies in web app development is getting a leg up by having someone else do the hard part. trigger serverless functions on validation, signup, or login events. trigger serverless functions on validation, signup, or login events.

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Serverless: A simple overview

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Get a basic understanding of serverless, then go deeper with recommended resources. Serverless is a trend in computing that decouples the execution of code, such as in web applications, from the need to maintain servers to run that code. Serverless also offers an innovative billing model and easier scalability.

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Supabase raises $80M Series B for its open source Firebase alternative

TechCrunch

The service can’t, of course, match Firebase on a feature-by-feature basis, but it offers many of the core features that developers would need to get started, including a database, storage and authentication service, as well as the recently launched Supabase Edge Functions , a serverless functions-as-a-service offering.

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Authenticating Users with Angular and Netlify Identity

Netlify

I’ve had the opposite of both, hard-to-code authentication and fragile security. Creating new logins for every site you use can be cumbersome, so many developers are turning to external authentication providers for a faster and easier authentication process. Breaking that security, that part should be hard.