Issue #14: 10 Reads, A Handcrafted Weekly Newsletter for Humans

Hello All,

Here are 10 reads I thought were worth sharing this week. The total time to read this newsletter is 195 minutes. This week newsletter has stories on bullshit web, CAP theorem, slow thinking, productivity, faster JSON parsing with Stanford Sparser, Serverless, Shopify tech stack and few more.

It seems that perfection is reached not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. – Antoine de Saint Exupéry

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Hands-on guide for building Serverless applications

Yesterday, I released hands-on guide to building Serverless applications using AWS Lambda and Serverless framework. The guide is open-source and available on Github. Checkout the guide and please give feedback.

Serverless is an overloaded word. Serverless means different things depending on the context. It could mean using third party managed services like Firebase, or it could mean an event driven architecture style or it could mean next generation compute service offered by cloud providers or it could mean a framework to build Serverless applications. This series will start with an introduction to Serverless compute and architecture. Once we learned the basics, we will start developing application in a step by manner.

Read more https://github.com/shekhargulati/hands-on-serverless-guide.