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Authentication in Serverless Apps—What Are the Options?

DevOps.com

Serverless applications are growing in popularity among DevOps engineers. They provide a convenient, predictable way to run simple processes like CI/CD builds or automation scripts with no need to stand up infrastructure. However, serverless applications present unique security challenges, one of them being authentication.

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Manage and Authenticate Users with Netlify Identity

Netlify

Authenticating users is a no-brainer”, said no one ever. After all, you can’t spell ‘delegation’ without ‘leg’ Netlify Identity lets us delegate a ton of authentication functionality: the setup and infrastructure of storing user information, as well. generate custom emails.

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Manage and Authenticate Users with Netlify Identity

Netlify

Authenticating users is a no-brainer”, said no one ever. After all, you can’t spell ‘delegation’ without ‘leg’ Netlify Identity lets us delegate a ton of authentication functionality: the setup and infrastructure of storing user information, as well. generate custom emails.

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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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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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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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Capsule gets $1.5M to build ‘super simple’ decentralized social media

TechCrunch

Capsule founder Nadim Kobeissi, a cryptography researcher who previously authored the open-source E2E-encrypted desktop chat app Cryptocat, says they’re on track to put out an MVP this month — once they’ve made a few tweaks to the infrastructure. “The prototype is ready,” he tells TechCrunch.

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