Are you being servered? - exploring a serverless web
summary
Argues that serving sites as pre-rendered markup plus on-demand back-end bits reduces ops and speeds pages: Smashing Magazine gets a 10x performance win after moving to this model. Shows a live proof: a shareable “lolly” app that uses Eleventy + FaunaDB for storage, Netlify build hooks and serverless functions (Netlify/AWS/webtask.io) to save data, trigger builds and fall back to serverless rendering. Notes an extreme test that triggered automated deploys 513,901 builds to prove deployment can be routine.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Start
- 1:28Wireless Charging
- 5:05Phil Hawksworth
- 8:18The Jam Stack
- 13:06Statically Served Web Application
- 15:01Build Hooks
- 15:29Alexa Voice Command
- 19:48Pre-Rendering
- 20:35Comparison between a Traditional Dynamic Back-End and a Static Origin Stack Approach
- 22:43Deployment
- 23:46Security Performance and Scale
- 24:34Performance
- 27:35Service Rendering
- 35:22Build Hook
- 40:47Enablers
- 42:10Final Thoughts
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