Serverless Handbook for Beginners
Dive into modern backend. Understand any backend.
Serverless Handbook for Beginners launched on April 1, 2021 with 13 votes, #1,263 of 3,754 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 5 years on.
What it does
Serverless Handbook shows you takes you from your first cloud function to modern backend master with 360 pages for people like you getting into backend programming. Lessons learned from 14 years of building production grade websites and webapps.
Wanna see what’s in Serverless Handbook, but not ready to buy the full book? Start with a free chapter. Are you a frontend engineer diving into backend? Do you have just that one bit of code that can't run in the browser? Something that deals with secrets and APIs? That's what cloud functions are for my friend. You take a JavaScript function, run it on serverless, get a URL, and voila. What happens when you wanna build a real backend? When you want to understand what's going on? Have opinions on REST vs GraphQL, NoSQL vs. SQL, databases, queues, talk about performance, cost, data processing, deployment strategies, developer experience? Serverless Handbook shows you how with 360 pages for…from serverlesshandbook.dev
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