February 26, 2019

Serverless Squabbles | Coder Radio 346

45 minutes

The three of us debate when to go full serverless, and if ditching servers is worth the cost.

Plus the battle against the Cult of Swift gains new allies.

Special Guest: Wes Payne.

Links:

Marco Arment on Twitter — Add up all of the time you’ve spent learning Swift from scratch, accommodating its strictness, fighting its buggy tools, migrating your code through language changes, and re-learning APIs and conventions as they’ve changed over the last 5 years.

I’ve spent zero time doing that.

A Swift Takes Flight on Windows — I have finally managed to get the compiler, the support libraries, the runtime, standard library, libdispatch, and now, Foundation to build and run on Windows!

Apple Plans to Close Stores in Eastern District of Texas in Fight Against Patent Trolls — To continue to serve the region, Apple plans to open a new store at the Galleria Dallas shopping mall in Dallas, just outside the Eastern District of Texas border.

Linux Academy - Full Stack Ruby on Rails Developer (Remote) — Your primary focus will be development of all server-side logic, definition and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end.

What is Serverless? — Serverless computing (or serverless for short), is an execution model where the cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud) is responsible for executing a piece of code by dynamically allocating the resources.

Serverless Architectures - Martin Fowler — Serverless architectures are application designs that incorporate third-party “Backend as a Service” (BaaS) services, and/or that include custom code run in managed, ephemeral containers on a “Functions as a Service” (FaaS) platform.

Serverless Architectures at AWS — A serverless architecture is a way to build and run applications and services without having to manage infrastructure.

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