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The 2024 Web Hosting Report
We see some great results from using these in conjunction with frameworks such as SST or Serverless, and also some real spaghetti from people who organically proliferate 100’s of functions over time and lose track of how they relate to each other or how to update them safely across time and service. Buyer beware!
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Hono v4.0.0
> But if you have a sufficiently large enough API surface, doing one lambda per endpoint comes with a lot of pain as well. Packaging and deploying all of those artifacts can be very time consuming, especially if you have a naive approach that does a full rebuild/redeploy every time the pipeline runs.
Yeah, thankfully SST [0] does the heavy lifting for me. I've tried most of the solutions out there and SST was where I was the happiest. Right now I do 1 functions per endpoint. I structure my code like url paths mostly, 1 stack per final folder, so that the "users" folder maps to "/users/*" and inside I have get/getAll/create/update/delete files that map to GET X/id, GET X, POST X, POST X/id, DELETE/id. It works out well, it's easy to reason about, and deploys (a sizable a backend) in about 10min on GitHub Actions (which I'm going to swap out probably for something faster).
I agree with the secrets/permissions aspect and I like that it's stupid-simple for me to attach secrets/permissions at a low level if I want.
I use NodeJS and startup isn't horrible and once it's up the requests as very quick. For my needs, an the nature of the software I'm writing, lambda makes a ton of sense (mostly never used, but when it's used it's used heavily and needs to scale up high).
[0] https://sst.dev
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Lambda to S3: Better Reliability in High-Volume Scenarios
We will start by building a project with SST that provisions an API Gateway, a Lambda, and an S3 bucket. Once implemented, we'll look into testing for concurrent write conflicts or exceeding capacity limits.
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How I saved 90% by switching NATs
I recently deployed a node websocket server using the SST Service construct. Until this point my stack had been functions and buckets. While I had no users 😢, I also had no costs 🤡.
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Ask HN: What web development stack do you prefer in 2024?
Most my personal and side-business projects have very spiky load or just low load in general. Because of that I love using AWS Lambda as my backend since it scales to 0 and scales to whatever you have your limits set at.
I use SST [0] for my backend with NodeJS (TypeScript) and Vue (Quasar) for my frontend. For my database I use either Postgres or DynamoDB if the fit is right (Single Table Design is really neat). For Postgres I like Neon [1] though their recent pricing changes make it less appealing.
[0] https://sst.dev
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Meta's serverless platform processing trillions of function calls a day (2023)
Yup. Entire core business product for a succeeding startup, though it's a small team of contributors (<10), and a much smaller platform team. Serverless backend started in 2018. Been a blessing in many regards, but it has its warts (often related to how new this architecture is, and of course we've made our own mistakes along the way).
I really like the model of functions decoupled through events. Big fan of that. It's very flexible and iterative. Keep that as your focus and it's great. Be careful of duplicating config, look for ways to compose/reuse (duh, but definitely a lesson learnt) and same with CI, structure your project so it can use something off-the-shelf like serverless-compose. Definitely monorepo/monolith it, I'd be losing my mind with 100-150 repos/"microservices" with a team this size. If starting now I'd maybe look at SST framework[0] because redeploying every change during development gets old fast
I couldn't go back to any other way to be honest, for cloud-heavy backends at least. By far the most productive I've ever been
Definitely has its warts though, it's not all roses.
[0] http://sst.dev
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Building a sophisticated CodePipeline with AWS CDK in a Monorepo Setup
Along the way, you find an excellent framework, SST. Which is much faster than CDK and provides a better DX1. Here is how you then define your MultiPipelineStack.
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Create a Next.js Server Component S3 Picture Uploader with SST
SST is a powerful framework that simplifies the development of serverless applications. It offers a straightforward and opinionated approach to defining serverless apps using TypeScript. Built on top of AWS CDK, SST handles the complexity of setting up your serverless infrastructure automatically. SST is an open-source framework and is completely free to use.
- SST – modern full-stack applications on AWS
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Do you believe AI will replace your job?
SST is an open-source framework designed to facilitate the development and deployment of Serverless stacks on AWS. It operates under the hood by integrating with Amazon CDK. However, its primary benefit is in allowing us to concentrate on creating resources using familiar languages like TypeScript, treating them as Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
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Is Nestjs easy to understand for frontend developer who is good at Typescript, reactjs and familiar with express?
I highly recommend, with these types of credentials, go serverless and use https://sst.dev/ with https://nextjs.org/ . Stupid simple deployment, and SST’s (reasonably priced) paid arm, https://seed.run/, for ci/cd and deployment including great stage management, and nearly free logging and error observability.
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Is anyone successfully using the CI/CD offering from serverless.com?
I've used seed.run with the Serverless Framework for 4-5 years. As I don't deploy to much I've stayed with the free tier and it all works perfectly. Try it out it won't disappoint.
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How much vendor lock-in is there in the NextJS/Vercel ecosystem?
They have, at least SST, visit seed
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What tech-stack to use for a solo dev that can prioritize product iteration and scale?
The backend is built with serverless.com (lambda, dynamodb, sqs, appsync). The good thing is that all the backend is stored in a file and you can deploy multiple stacks on the same account using seed.run . You don't really need EC2/Fargate when you have lambdas and you know that most of the time will be idle time. The same with cache I wouldn't think of it right now until you see the workload you are facing. Dynamodb once you understand it and have a proper design it's the fastest thing you can have. On my appsync calls I'm using Dynamodb as a cache because it's cheaper...
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Do some developers actually, REALLY, have no local environment and run everything in AWS? Is the individual cloud dev environment a real alternative to having things running locally?
I run my personal project on AWS. I has been running for 4+ years now and I never had a local environment. I took the serverless route. That is appsync, lambda, dynamodb, sqs to build the stack. I'm using serverless.com to have all the resources defined in a yaml files which will deploy multiple stacks. I'm using seed.run to manage that part because it's much more simple than to do it manually.
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Best managed graphql service for database + search?
How do you deploy your services on AWS? I'm a solo developer and have no issues with my backend. I use the Serverless framework so all services, lambdas, configurations is on a repository on git. I do all the deploys to a dev environment where I test my code and later on I deploy with a PR to my prod environment thanks to seed.run.
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Structuring a Real-World Serverless App
Your repo setup can look different, but the general concept still holds true. You have to figure out if a file change affects an individual service, or if a file change affects all the services. The advantage of this strategy is that you know upfront which services can be skipped. This allows you to skip a portion of the entire build process, thus speeding up your builds. A shameless plug here, Seed supports this and the setup outlined in this post out of the box!
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Working with Lambda Code
I use serverless.com framework with tests and deploy with seed.run. So I don't ever touch a Lambda in production. I also have 2 environments, one for testing and the other for production.
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I have a serverless application with multiple services or stacks which behave as a microservice , I have a build.sh file which allows me to deploy specific service. Now , I want to automate my deployments using gitlab/github but only deploy specific stacks
I'd use seed.run . You can deploy multiple stacks on parallel or with dependencies. You can deploy from github ( 100% sure ) from gitlab I'm not sure. Worth checking it. I'm using the service for free and haven't had any issue.
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What do you like/dislike about AWS services? What are the most common problems?
Building on top of it requires some knowledge but for me it has been worth it. I use serverless.com to manage all the infrastructure as a CF template. This has the benefit that I can deploy multiple test environments at will. I'm also using seed.run to do all the CI/CD ( also for free ) and doing all the monitoring with lumigo.io . And I build single pages applications that use Netlify.com to handle at that part. I do it to avoid less things to manage on AWS directly when the service is free (again) and really easy to use.
What are some alternatives?
LocalStack - 💻 A fully functional local AWS cloud stack. Develop and test your cloud & Serverless apps offline
vite - Next generation frontend tooling. It's fast!
serverless-plugin-warmup - Keep your lambdas warm during winter. ♨ [Moved to: https://github.com/juanjoDiaz/serverless-plugin-warmup]
aws-cdk - The AWS Cloud Development Kit is a framework for defining cloud infrastructure in code
esbuild - An extremely fast bundler for the web
Previous Serverless Version 0.5.x - ⚡ Serverless Framework – Use AWS Lambda and other managed cloud services to build apps that auto-scale, cost nothing when idle, and boast radically low maintenance.
docker-lambda - Docker images and test runners that replicate the live AWS Lambda environment
serverless-bundle - Optimized packages for ES6 and TypeScript Node.js Lambda functions without any configuration.
serverless-offline - Emulate AWS λ and API Gateway locally when developing your Serverless project
Moto - A library that allows you to easily mock out tests based on AWS infrastructure.