I feel this approach is perfect not only for front-end developers but is a leap forward compared to the old ways of doing things in general. The Amplify Framework offers a layer of abstraction that I think is ideal for the deployment & provisioning of cloud functions from your front-end environment. Many times though you still need to understand the basic terminology & lingo to get started with these tools. There are many abstractions built on top of cloud providers to make this easier - things like the Serverless Framework, Terraform, & Serverless Application Model (SAM) for example offer frameworks & tools to make provisioning & deploying these resources easier. The problem for many front-end developers & developers new to cloud computing is that the user-interface & the process of getting started with this type of architecture is not as straight-forward or easy as it could be & the tooling is out of the realm of what we’re used to working with. Serverless challenges for front-end developers
#NPM SERVERLESS UPDATE FUNCTION CODE#
The cloud provider also takes care of provisioning and managing the servers to run the code upon invocation. Your cloud provider executes the function code on your behalf. The event could come from some type of API gateway (http request) if invoking the code from a client application, an event from another serverless function, or an event from another cloud service (like Amazon S3 for example after something is uploaded). When you deploy your function, you then need a way to invoke it in the form of an event. The idea is that you write your application code in the form of functions. These applications scale seamlessly and do not require any server operations. Serverless applications run in stateless compute containers that are event-driven, ephemeral (functions as a service, may last for one invocation), and fully managed by the cloud provider of your choice.
So what is a serverless application? Here’s my definition: The serverless computing industry is projected to grow to $7.7B in 2021, compared to $1.9B in 2016. Serverless has the highest growth of all services in the cloud. “Serverless computing will become the default computing paradigm of the Cloud Era, largely replacing serverful computing and thereby bringing closure to the Client-Server Era.”
In a recent article published by UC Berkeley titled “ Cloud Programming Simplified: A Berkeley View on Serverless Computing”, this prediction was made: ? Serverless functions- February 21, 2019 What I’d study right now to become an in-demand frontend engineer – 2019 Edition! While this tutorial is focused on front-end developers new to the serverless space, this is a good deep dive for anyone looking to learn more about serverless functions in general. In this tutorial, you’ll learn the fundamentals of serverless functions & serverless applications.