Unleashing the power of serverless for solo developers

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  • LocalStack

    💻 A fully functional local AWS cloud stack. Develop and test your cloud & Serverless apps offline

    When building applications in the cloud, most people wisely choose an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) framework like Serverless Framework, SAM, or the AWS CDK. This lets you ensure repeatable infrastructure and code deployments. The problem is that the feedback loop to deploy new environments and test your changes can take several minutes or more, forcing developers to find local solutions to speed this up. There are some excellent solutions like LocalStack that help emulate cloud services locally, but ultimately you end up with a patchwork of tools and mocking libraries that don’t provide parity with your production environment. Even worse, setting up and maintaining these local environments can take a significant amount of time, taking you away from delivering value to your users.

  • dynamodb-toolbox

    A simple set of tools for working with Amazon DynamoDB and the DocumentClient

    Serverless Cloud further reduces the cognitive load on developers by automatically applying best practices for APIs, data, storage, CDNs, and more. For example, Jeremy Daly, GM of Serverless Cloud, created the DynamoDB Toolbox to help developers implement the best practices of single table design for Amazon DynamoDB. Serverless Data bakes in those best practices for you and provides a simple interface to manage your data. Similarly, your API endpoint will automatically have a sufficient amount of computational resources by simply using the api interface of our SDK. Serverless Cloud continuously adapts the best configuration for your application, letting you focus on solving business problems, not infrastructure ones.

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  • serverless-application-model

    The AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) transform is a AWS CloudFormation macro that transforms SAM templates into CloudFormation templates.

    When building applications in the cloud, most people wisely choose an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) framework like Serverless Framework, SAM, or the AWS CDK. This lets you ensure repeatable infrastructure and code deployments. The problem is that the feedback loop to deploy new environments and test your changes can take several minutes or more, forcing developers to find local solutions to speed this up. There are some excellent solutions like LocalStack that help emulate cloud services locally, but ultimately you end up with a patchwork of tools and mocking libraries that don’t provide parity with your production environment. Even worse, setting up and maintaining these local environments can take a significant amount of time, taking you away from delivering value to your users.

  • aws-cdk

    The AWS Cloud Development Kit is a framework for defining cloud infrastructure in code

    When building applications in the cloud, most people wisely choose an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) framework like Serverless Framework, SAM, or the AWS CDK. This lets you ensure repeatable infrastructure and code deployments. The problem is that the feedback loop to deploy new environments and test your changes can take several minutes or more, forcing developers to find local solutions to speed this up. There are some excellent solutions like LocalStack that help emulate cloud services locally, but ultimately you end up with a patchwork of tools and mocking libraries that don’t provide parity with your production environment. Even worse, setting up and maintaining these local environments can take a significant amount of time, taking you away from delivering value to your users.

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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