What Is Serverless?

In this What Is Wednesday I answer the question, What Is Serverless?
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Just like wireless internet has wires somewhere, serverless architectures still have servers somewhere.
What ‘serverless’ really means is that, as a developer you don’t have to think about those servers. You just focus on code.

[@norm1124]

Sorry this was not helpful for me. I'd expect a little real world sample. Nevertheless great Audio, great Video, great Voice

[@SoyDelSouth]

Rent a server from Digital Ocean or buy a raspberry pi. Now configure your web service so the public internet can access. Don’t know the command like? Learn. Don’t know what Apache or Nginx is? Learn. Want to be charged per minute your server is up? Oh well. AWS lambda is basically a place where you upload your code and “it just works” without further intervention on your part. You’re also only charged when it is used and not per minute.

[@quinius]

Nice, i might try that framework to get a better idea of serverless. I would love to see a video or honestly even a few tutorials or pro series on docker as well as CI/ CD in the future

[@pardus.panthera]

Found my answer to "serverless". Thumbs-up !

[@tbdrosa8542]

this was really helpful, thank you!! do you happen to have any other videos showing how to use this serverless framework? I've been trying to figure out how to deploy a static, yet responsive email form that allows people to fill out when they visit my website site

[@andrewkiminhwan]

pretty sweet video! love hearing you on Syntax and also on KZbin. It connects my media spheres together

[@aadams99]

Keep the Meteor framework videos coming! More Meteor + Apollo + React please!

[@karmadorjee8076]

Greatly appreciate for the video!

[@GergiH]

Why do I have a feeling that all these fancy sounding new "technologies" and frameworks look only good on paper but in reality they suck ass? I mean if you really think about it, this is only a redistribution of the work and not less work. Not to mention this way your business will always depend on another company too (while probably it depends on multiple other by this point already). While I loved all these cool JS frameworks at first glance, I start to slowly grow resentful by the chaos the whole JS webdev world is going through constantly. You update any small package and all the things you worked on may just fall apart, not to mention most of these get MAJOR updates like every 3-6 months...

[@kamaboko1]

A bend on the definition of cloud services. Got to love those marketing people.

[@Funkfreed]

kamaboko1 I was here trying to learn what people meant by serverless. Apparently it's just a pay per execute cloud server. BTW isn't this what IBM has been doing for mainframe machines? That is also pay per execute if I recall. I wonder though if there is much difference in terms of approach.

[@zychro]

finally someone who can think

[@EnglishRain]

So am I correct in extrapolating that Heroku and PythonAnywhere are serverless service providers too?

[@sawilliams]

Should be called What Is someone else's Server.

[@Daniel_WR_Hart]

#NotMyServer

[@alexwillenbrink8069]

Just started looking into serverless (the framework) and lambda functions a few days ago. Conceptually it all seems well and good but there's miles of work to be done on both technologies before any sane person uses them on any larger project. Lambda functions sound great in theory but currently it's incredibly painful to do trivial things like adding libraries. Debugging through cloudwatch makes me want to gouge my eyes out. Serverless (the framework) makes writing and deploying lambda functions slightly easier but the setup and organization of the .yml file quickly becomes messy and confusing. If you want the benefits of being able to scale your server dynamically, why not just write your services in an api and deploy it through elastic beanstock? That way you can write and test your code so much quicker. IMO the benefits of using this approach far outweigh the only real benefit I can see from using lambda functions in that they're most likely cheaper because they aren't always serving.

[@mohammedgomaa8851]

2 years later.

[@jackchen1717]

What are your thoughts now about lambda functions? I’m interested in using for my web app cuz it seems it fits my use case but I might seeing the everything else in the back

[@astroid9087]

Great vid 10x

[@bartoszfengler8649]

Hi Scott, you haven’t mention Firebase neither in this video nor on syntax podcast. What do you think about this platform ?

[@RageBasterd]

firebase functions runs on google cloud platform. you can actually edit/read your firebase function online through the GCP console, and get more in depth metrics for each of your triggers

[@omarhegazi1613]

hay man, what recording software do you use for your tutorials ? also if i want 1080 quality should i have a 22inch screen ?

[@derkjna]

You could just use OBS. Then make sure your screen is Full HD and the output format is set to Full HD. I don't think Full HD is something that is based on screen inches. I mean a phone screen of 5.1 inch can have 1440x2560 pixels.

[@syntaxfm]

I'm using iShowU HD. I've just recently started using it and it's excellent. Love it. If you have a high res screen it shouldn't matter. iShowU records the true pixels. I record everything on a 15" MacBook Pro now.

[@DavidScovil]

Serverless does exist and it can be found by utilizing the SAFE Network. The Alpha 2 network has been running for months and developers are building apps to utilize it now. DDOS attack prevention is built in and you own't have to worry about those types of things.

[@Bleachiiigo]

A Korean Captions Hah Interresting

[@loftkey]

Is netilfy static webpage hosting considered serverless?

[@wadefletcher8928]

I think it’s kind of quasi serverless yeah. The core of a true “serverless” architecture is the lambda function, which obviously you don’t need, but that’s normally paired with a CDN which you do have. So somewhere in between.

[@whatthefunction9140]

How do you implement a db and manage dns with a server less setup?

[@syntaxfm]

You would host your db somewhere else. I personally host mine on compose.io but there are a number of cloud db services including 1 from AWS.

[@gethermedel3620]

as what I notice? it's for people who don't know much about devops, development, handling servers, handling databases, people with unlimited money, lazy people and etc. it will cost you more than what you really need instead of you handling everything and saving on costing. if you're tired of handling servers then fucking automate it, monitor and automate updates, backups, jobs, packages, deployment and etc. it will save you probably much much more money then rather using all those services and paying for it. PLUS you keep fucking learning and expanding your knowledge while doing it.

[@whatthefunction9140]

Gether Medel kids these days!

[@gethermedel3620]

Dylan T ikr? it's disaapointing you can do all of it by just paying $5/month on DO, instead of you paying more than $15/month lol

[@whatthefunction9140]

Yeah I have 4 DO 1 GB servers running in a docker swarm. 20 bucks a month and it runs all my site.

[@maotora_tz]

Let's play a game... Drink every time he says "It's someone else's server" 🍻🍻

[@JaysonGriggs]

IF you want a true serverless application use IPFS with IPNS and OrbitDB

[@hrizvi313]

Seems like your defining PaaS !!!! Isn't ? By Manage and maintain you meant IaaS right? if you yes isn't it becomes PaaS!! I need to know if PaaS is different from Serve-less than whats the main difference ?

[@syntaxfm]

+Syed Haider Abbas Rizvi It's more of FaaS or Functions as a Service. stackify.com/function-as-a-service-serverless-architecture/ breaks down the difference pretty well.

[@LeoTM]

After faffing around a while, this helped me get started with AWS Lambda: serverless.com/blog/serverless-express-rest-api/

[@GrantSR]

You're almost halfway into the video and you are still using circular definitions. Just tell me what I can do and what I need to do to get it set up to be able to do that.

[@JM-jc8ew]

Hi Scott, is Heroku a serverless platform too? but according to my research a real serverless, must have a functional programming paradigm.

[@eng3d]

Caesar Rodman heroku is really cool. You can integrate with github in a snap. However its expensive

[@VictorMartinez-zf6dt]

Serverless doesn't have to be functional. Heroku is serverless because you don't manage server infrastructure, just your app. Serverless includes things like docker running on managed orchestration like ECS, EKS, or app platforms like Google App Engine, Heroku, Azure App Service, and functions as a service like Lambda, Azure Functions, or Google Cloud Functions.

[@MultiLenoxxx]

IMO Serveless is the future

[@vincesanchez7790]

Bro can you make a video about Node js vs PHP , who are the fastest

[@syntaxfm]

You can be fast or slow in both Node and PHP. You wouldn't select one over the other because of performance.

[@1337cookie]

Can you do a tutorial on building a php server in node.js that can serve graphql from mysql?

[@vincesanchez7790]

Soon it will be done 2 server side work together

[@ndrsln]

needs more graphics to explain concepts, other than that you are better of reading than listening

[@AmxCsifier]

Serverless... someone made a hosting company and called it ServerMore 🤣

[@marknunes8444]

who ever used their own server? that implies running pages off your personal computer. sounds like it’s about no server side programming which is one of the webs best advantages

[@lunalabssolutions9070]

Another "fancy" name for marketing people just like cloud. This is nothing new, just ads grabbed onto something "new" :) But thanks for the explanation and efforts.

[@syntaxfm]

This is just flat out not true.

[@Maydara86]

I didn't understand!!