The Serverless Framework Wins Best Microservices API at the API Awards

Re:The Serverless Framework Wins Best Microservices API at t... by nathan_f77 on Monday September 10, 2018 @10:48AM (#17952196)

I don't know too much about it, but it's a framework for managing your lambda functions, and it makes it really easy to deploy them to a cloud provider.

You could also use Terraform, CloudFormation templates, or write your own shell scripts using the AWS CLI. But serverless does everything for you, and I always prefer to use opinionated tools that don't require too much configuration.

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Re:The Serverless Framework Wins Best Microservices API at t... by guitarbill on Monday September 10, 2018 @12:03PM (#17952725)

With serverless, you'll probably end up writing a CloudFormation template snippets to provision resources to support the Lambda anyway (it's just in the serverless YAML file).

But it does make deployment easier. A good example is macOS + Python. If you have C extensions (such as LXML or crypto libs, etc.), you'll want to build the dependencies inside a Linux environment. serverless has a plugin that can use docker to build and package dependencies.

For reasons I can't put my finger on, I'm not a huge fan of serverless. Maybe the npm focus? But it seems like the best tool out there for Lambdas. Unless you're use-case is narrower, then something like Zappa might make sense.

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