112: Guillermo Rauch - Building Serverless Applications with Now

Topics include:

• How Now is trying to bring the CDN experience to your server-side code
• How the constraints of serverless can nudge you to build more robust solutions
• How to talk to a database in a stateless serverless environment
• Best practices for deploying serverless code when you have a centralized data store
• Why routing should be handled at the Now configuration level instead of in application code
• How Now functions are different from microservices, and how you share code between them
• How Now bundles your project using builders
• Creating a monolithic project with Now that uses different programming languages for each endpoint
• How the upcoming "now dev" feature will enable you to simulate a serverless environment locally
• A behind-the-scenes look at the Now dashboard, how it's built, and the third-party services that power it

Sponsors:

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Links:

• ZEIT
• Next.js
• Now.sh
• Now builders on GitHub
• Now Monorepo example
• Wordpress running on Now on now
• Third-party services for serverless projects: 
  • Cosmos DB
  • ScaleGrid
  • Compose
  • DynamoDB
  • Firebase
  • Amazon Aurora
  • Auth0

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