Cloud Architecture

Some Serverless Gotchas

Dec 11, 2020
Cloud Architecture, Serverless
AWS, GCP, Lambda, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions

As it’s been in the news recently, I thought it would be timely to list a few things to watch out for when working with serverless services, serverless-es? Sssserverless? Serverlaas? Servern’ts? Anyway, I figured we should start with execution patterns and how they can go wrong.

Brief Into to Serverless #

In the interest of accessibility I want to make sure that everyone has an idea what serverless is, or at least how I explain it to myself. Feel free to skip this section.

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My Blog Stack

Dec 9, 2020
Cloud Architecture
App Engine, Blog, GCP, Hugo, CICD, Static Site

This blog is written in Hugo and deployed to Google App Engine as a static site. “Whoa whoa whoa” you might say, a static site? Sure. App Engine handlers are basically nginx listeners and you can specify static content, default index.html, etc, so why not? You don’t have to define a script endpoint at all even and I’d argue it’s actually easier to get a static site up and running here than it is to use a bucket with an endpoint and a load balancer. Plus, I get all the other stuff that comes with App Engine when and if I need it, without having to move anything.

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