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The Goods and Bads of Serverless

Benjamin Tanone
Jun 17, 2019 · 9 min read
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AWS SAM is a fairly nifty serverless framework which is represented by a fairly cute squirrel

Does it actually live up to the hype?

For the past 6 months, I have been developing a lot of my team’s RESTful API backend using AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM). The initial decision to use a serverless architecture is based around (1) cost-saving; and (2) easy scalability. Also, the fact that SAM supported Node.js meant that front-end developers can work on backend code…

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