Tales From the Serverless

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Migrates a $20/month Linode site to a serverless stack using AWS Lambda, S3 + CloudFront + ACM + Route 53 and DynamoDB, deployed from GitHub via Terraform and CircleCI with Go binaries. Builds a static site (CloudFront invalidation, first 10k free) and a faucet REST API behind API Gateway calling a testnet; 1M Lambda requests and ~3M free-seconds cover light use, API Gateway ~$3/1M requests. It works for bursty loads but requires WAF/reCAPTCHA for bots, cold-start handling, and respects the 15-minute Lambda limit.

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1. 0:00Introduction and motivation
2. 8:53Migrating from legacy server
3. 14:05Tooling for serverless
4. 23:01Building a serverless faucet
5. 30:28Lambda pricing and performance
6. 39:36Key takeaways and resources
7. 48:35Q&A and closing

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