Serverless: Giving superpowers to frontend developers

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Argues serverless hands frontend developers the power to deploy production APIs, SSR and complete apps without ops work: 1M Lambda invocations cost roughly $0.20 and a CodePen-style site can hit 150–250M requests and still scale. Demonstrates using AWS Amplify CLI to create hosting, Auth, GraphQL APIs, storage and ML predictions, plus using Lambda and Claudia.js for deployment. Gives concrete wins: a self-hosted error service, a Slack vacation bot and a mind‑mapping product with 750k users, all built and running by front-end teams.

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1. 0:00Introduction to serverless
2. 9:20What is serverless?
3. 12:10Deploying apps with serverless
4. 16:01Building APIs and auth
5. 18:34Machine learning with serverless
6. 21:22Reusing frontend logic
7. 25:16Real-world success stories
8. 33:12Key takeaways and benefits
9. 35:02Q&A session

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