austencollins/awesome-serverless

Curated list of resources related to the Serverless project

Awesome Serverless

A curated list of resources regarding the Serverless project (previously known as JAWS).

Inspired by the awesome list project.

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Table of contents

• General
• Blogs
• Blog posts
• Talks
• Amazon AWS resources
• Projects
• Plugins
• Literature
• Professional services
• Deprecated
  • General
  • Modules

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General

• Homepage - Official homepage.
• GitHub organization - Official GitHub organization.
• Twitter - Official Twitter account.
• Meetups - List with all official Serverless meetups.
• Readme.io - Official documentation.
• Vimeo - JAWS Vimeo account.
• YouTube - Serverless YouTube account.
• Community repository - Resources for the community.
• Serverless Registry - Unofficial plugin and module search.
• Roadmap - GitHub milestones.
• Stack Overflow - Stack Overflow questions.
• Gitter Chat - Chat with the community.

Blogs

• Just Serverless - Blog about the Serverless framework.
• Serverless Code - Blog about everything serverless related.

Blog posts

• Infoword article - Infoworld blog post discussing Serverless (formerly known as JAWS).
• Interview with the Parallax agency - Interview how This ones for you was developed with the Serverless framework.
• Example AWS infrastructure - Example cloud infrastructure for a Serverless project.
• Build a Serverless REST API in Minutes with the Serverless Framework - Most recent "getting started" post as of Jan 2016.
• Moving from Ruby on Rails to Serverless - Blog post why and how this transition was made.
• Zerosharp blog posts series - Step-by-step development of an example application.
• Serverless and GraphQL - How Serverless can be used with GraphQL.
• Serverless - The next big thing - Colin Lyman on Serverless as the next big thing.
• Building a website - Tutorial on how to build a serverless website.
• Add CORS support - How you can add CORS support to your Serverless functions.
• AWS lambda framework "Serverless" - Article about the Serverless framework.
• Using Python - Using Python with Serverless.
• Scheduled Lambda events - How to create scheduled Lambda events.
• Trek10 about Serverless - A look at Serverless for processes, projects and scale.
• Serverless Slackbots - Slackbot implementation with Serverless.
• 5 serverless computing frameworks to watch out for - Forbes blog post which compares five serverless frameworks.
• Caching for API Gateway - Enable caching on query string parameters.
• The Serverless revolution - Blog post which gives a great introduction to the serverless architecture.
• What happens when you collaborate with valve - Great writeup which shows how Serverless helped a startup to handle massive traffic.
• Architecting a Serverless web application - Insightful read on how to architecture a serverless web application.
• How to avoid integration platform teething - Nice article why Serverless matters.
• Express to AWS Lambda - Blog post series which compares Express to AWS Lambda / Serverless.
• Cloudcademy blog post about Serverless - Deep overview of Serverless.
• Serverless computing use cases - Blog post about the ServerlessConf and Serverless use cases.
• A match made in heaven - Blog post by GorillaStack which shows the power of Serverless environment variables.
• Serverless computing growing quickly - Overview why Serverless comuting is taking over traditional application development.
• MongoDB with Serverless - How you can use MongoDB with Serverless.
• ServerlessConf recap - Recap about the first ServerlessConf.
• Volume compute for a new generation - Brief overview what the serverless architecture is and why it matters.
• Serverless secrets - Blog post on the "serverless secrets" plugin and how to share secrets in a Serverless project in general.
• Martin Fowler blog post - Martin Fowler blog post on Serverless architectures.
• Continuous Deployments with Serverless - How to do continuous deployments with Serverless.
• Building Serverless framework v1 - Blog post announcing v1.0.
• Serverless HipChat connect - Walkthrough of Serverless HipChat connect.
• Scout Alarms move to Serverless - Short blog post why Scout Alarm decided to use Serverless.
• Serverless v1.0 alpha1 announcement - Serverless announcement blog post about v1.0 alpha 1.
• Migrating from v0 to v1 - Blog post series about the migration process from v0 to v1.
• The life of a Serverless Microservice - Interesting read on how to build a production ready Serverless application (everything described there could also be done with the Serverless framework).

Talks

• JAWS @ re:Invent YouTube Video - Presentation video of the re:Invent talk.
• JAWS @ re:Invent presentation slides - Presentation slides of the re:Invent talk.
• The dot Post - The dot Post with a presentation about Serverless.
• Serverless computing - Intro to Serverless computing.
• What is the serverless architecture? - The serverless architecture explained.
• SC5 workshop - SC5 AWS / Serverless workshop.
• Deep dive on Serverless web applications - AWS intro to serverless computing.
• Serverless Framework with Austen Collins - Podcast about the Serverless framework.

Amazon AWS resources

• Amazon AWS homepage - Official Amazon AWS homepage.
• Free Amazon AWS tier - Highly recommended to get started with Amazon AWS.
• AWS S3 - File storage solution (used to server files such as HTML or JavaScript).
• AWS Lambda - Details about the Lambda service.
• AWS Cloudformation - Details about CloudFormation.
• AWS API Gateway - Details about API Gateway.
• AWS IAM - Details about Identity and Access Management (IAM).
• Cloudcraft - Awesome tool to plan and visualize your AWS infrastructure.

Projects

• React Serverless - Use React together with Serverless.
• Serverless test plugin - Test plugin.
• Lang Adventure backend - Backend from Lang Adventure game.
• Serverless project written with ES2015 - Project example written in ES2015.
• Serveress Telegram bot - Telegram bot implementation.
• Serverless pre register - Product Pre-registration page.
• Serverless mapbox classic - API gateway that munges geojson coming from a mapbox classic editor.
• Universal Serverless React - React with Serverless.
• Serverless example - Experimental example project.
• DynamoDB CRUD example - How to use DynamoDB with Serverless.
• GraphQL Blog - A Blog powered by GraphQL and Serverless.
• Password of the day - Password of the day service. Utilizing TypeScript.
• func4 - Show and create users.
• Boxify - Boxify API service.
• MIDAAS API - MIDAAS API.
• Zanon IO Demo - Demo project.
• Cortex - Cortex project.
• Protocol service - Protocol service.
• Cat facts - Example how to use Serverless with Python.
• Notes - Note taking application written for the "Learn Serverless" book.
• Aquest - Demo application.
• Hello world - Hello World application.
• Garage - Managing cars.
• Slackbot scaffold - Scaffold for a Serverless slackbot.
• Lambda-React-SSR - Server-side rendering with React on Lambda.
• Authentication boilerplate - Authentication boilerplate for Serverless.
• Blog - Blog example using Serverless.
• MoonMail - Serverless newsletter service.
• Serverless GraphQL boilerplate - Official Serverless GraphQL boilerplate.
• SC5 boilerplate - Serverless boilerplate by SC5.
• Facebook messenger chatbot - Facebook messenger chatbot who searches for GitHub repositories.
• Facebook messenger bot - Feature rich Facebook messenger chatbot.
• Discuss - Forum software powered by Serverless, GraphQL, React and Redux.
• Elasticommerce search service - Elasticsearch service for WooCommerce shops.
• Serverless starter Python - Starter project for Python based project.
• Express to AWS Lambda - Code of the "Express to AWS Lambda" blog post series.
• Serverless HipChat connect - Using Atlassian connect with Serverless.
• Serverless MongoDB - Example project on how to use Serverless and MongoDB.

Plugins

• Plugin boilerplate - Boilerplate code if you want to develop your own plugin.
• Serverless resources validation plugin - Plugin which validates your CloudFormation template.
• Alerting - Add Cloudwatch Alarms with SNS notifications.
• Lambda prune - Automatically remove unused Lambda functions.
• Autoprune - Automatically remove unused Lambda functions.
• Swagger - Swagger.io plugin.
• CORS - CORS plugin.
• Serve - Test your lambda functionality locally.
• Base path plugin - Setting a base path for all API Gateway endpoints in a component.
• SNS - Plugin for SNS support.
• Cronjob - Plugin for Cronjobs.
• API Blueprint - API documentation generator.
• VPC - VPC support.
• Client S3 - Handle static asset serving (like static frontends) via S3.
• Offline - An alternative to the Serve plugin, with Velocity templates support.
• Serverless optimizer plugin - Fork of the optimizer plugin which uses Webpack.
• JSHint - Detect errors and potential problems in your Lambda functions.
• Webpack - Use Webpack to optimize your Serverless Node.js Functions.
• Runtime Babel - Babel runtime for the Serverless framework (so that ES6 and ES7 syntax can be used).
• Runtime Streamline - Streamline.js for Serverless.
• Meta Sync - Synchronize project credentials via AWS.
• GraphiQL - Deploys a GraphiQL client to a public S3 bucket.
• S3 - Deploy files to S3.
• Swagger - Swagger plugin.
• Synchronous resource - Plugin for deploying custom CFN stacks.
• Models - Plugin for model support.
• Mocha - Plugin to use Mocha.js.
• Package - Adds function packaging.
• Sentry - Sentry integration for Serverless.
• Autoprune - Delete old lambdas.
• Secrets - Secret management.
• Vandium - Vandium PlugIn for Serverless.
• Command line event args - Pass JSON to serverless via the command line.
• Unit test boilerplate - Boilerplate for unit testing with Serverless.

Literature

• Serverless - By Obie Fernandez - Book about Serverless development (also covers usage of the Serverless framework).
• Learn Serverless - By Philipp Müns - Book focused on the serverless.com framework.

Professional services

• Just Serverless - Serverless specialized agency.
• Trek10 - Consultancy.
• Parallax - Consultancy.
• SC5 Online - Serverless agency.
• Carrot creative - Agency.
• Microapps - Agency.
• Apiwise - Agency.
• Useful.io - Agency.
• WhaleTec - Consultancy.
• CloudNative - Consultancy.
• Hop Labs - Consultancy.
• Webscale - Consultancy.
• API talent - Consultancy.

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Deprecated

Deprecated stuff. Kept for completeness.

General

• AWSM - Official GitHub organization for modules.
• Getting started with JAWS on AWS - Getting started guide with Serverless by Amazon (might be deprecated).
• Serverless starter - Boilerplate for new projects.
• JAWS local server - Local server which let's you execute Lambda functions locally.
• Shark Notes - Full note taking tool (frontend and backend) which shows how to do CRUD with Serverless.

Modules

• npm registry - npm registry.
• Users - AWSM module for authentication.
• Test AWS users library - Test AWSM users.
• Stripe webhook - Webhook for Stripe payments.
• Slack webhook - Webhook for Slack.
• Slack - Slack boilerplate functionality.
• Examples - Module with example functions.
• Slackbot - Module to create your own slackbot.
• Images - Image modifications.
• Cloudfront - Puts CloudFront distribution in front of your project.
• S3 token vendor - Return upload tokens for S3 objects.
• Loggly - Provide logging to your lambdas.
• Middleware - Middleware for your project.
• GitHub Webhook - GitHub webhook support.
• Comments - Implements comments using DynamoDB.
• 3scale - Integrates 3scale API management platform.