Best practices for building Serverless apps
Hi all, I'm one of the authors of Serverless-Stack.com — an open source guide to building full-stack apps with AWS Lambda and React. Since it's launch in 2017, it's become one of the most widely read guides for building Serverless apps. Today we are adding a new section to the guide that walks you through the best practices of building large Serverless applications. It tries to address some of the most common questions that teams have: - How should my project be structured when I have dozens of interdependent services? - How should I manage my environments? - What are the best practice for…
Best practices for building Serverless apps launched on October 10, 2019 with 10 votes, #947 of 3,363 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
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Serverless-Stack.com is an open-source guide for building full-stack applications using AWS Lambda and React. It provides comprehensive best practices for constructing large serverless applications, covering project structure, environment management, secrets storage, security, developer workflows, and debugging. The resource addresses common challenges teams face when managing dozens of interdependent services in serverless architectures.
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Hi all, I'm one of the authors of Serverless-Stack.com — an open source guide to building full-stack apps with AWS Lambda and React. Since it's launch in 2017, it's become one of the most widely read guides for building Serverless apps. Today we are adding a new section to the guide that walks you through the best…
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