Awesome Serverless

A curated list of resources regarding the Serverless framework (formerly JAWS) and the serverless architecture.

Inspired by the awesome list project.

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Table of contents

• General
• Blogs
• Blog posts
• Talks
• Amazon AWS resources
• Projects / Services
• Plugins
• Literature
• Professional services
• Deprecated
  • General
  • Plugins (v0.5)
  • Modules
  • Literature

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General

• Homepage - Official homepage.
• GitHub organization - Official GitHub organization.
• Twitter - Official Twitter account.
• Forum - Official Serverless forum.
• Meetups - List with all official Serverless meetups.
• Readme.io - Official documentation.
• Vimeo - JAWS Vimeo account.
• YouTube - Serverless YouTube account.
• Community repository - Resources for the community.
• Community plugins - Repository for Serverless community plugins.
• Roadmap - GitHub milestones.
• Stack Overflow - Stack Overflow questions.
• Gitter Chat - Chat with the community.
• Serverless cost calculator - Calculate your costs for different providers.
• ServerlessConf - Serverless specialized conference.
• Serverless Camp - Code camps to learn more about serverless.
• Serverless Heroes Resources - Another great list with serverless related resources.

Blogs

• Just Serverless - Blog about the Serverless framework.
• Serverless Code - Blog about everything serverless related.
• Serverless Zone - Everything Serverless related.
• Serverless Blog - Official blog of the Serverless Framework.
• Serverless Stories - Medium publication from the team behind the Serverless Framework.

Blog posts

• Infoword article - Infoworld blog post discussing Serverless (formerly known as JAWS).
• Interview with the Parallax agency - Interview how This ones for you was developed with the Serverless framework.
• Example AWS infrastructure - Example cloud infrastructure for a Serverless project.
• Build a Serverless REST API in Minutes with the Serverless Framework - Most recent "getting started" post as of Jan 2016.
• Moving from Ruby on Rails to Serverless - Blog post why and how this transition was made.
• Zerosharp blog posts series - Step-by-step development of an example application.
• Serverless and GraphQL - How Serverless can be used with GraphQL.
• Serverless - The next big thing - Colin Lyman on Serverless as the next big thing.
• Building a website - Tutorial on how to build a serverless website.
• Add CORS support - How you can add CORS support to your Serverless functions.
• AWS lambda framework "Serverless" - Article about the Serverless framework.
• Using Python - Using Python with Serverless.
• Scheduled Lambda events - How to create scheduled Lambda events.
• Trek10 about Serverless - A look at Serverless for processes, projects and scale.
• Serverless Slackbots - Slackbot implementation with Serverless.
• 5 serverless computing frameworks to watch out for - Forbes blog post which compares five serverless frameworks.
• Caching for API Gateway - Enable caching on query string parameters.
• The Serverless revolution - Blog post which gives a great introduction to the serverless architecture.
• What happens when you collaborate with valve - Great writeup which shows how Serverless helped a startup to handle massive traffic.
• Architecting a Serverless web application - Insightful read on how to architecture a serverless web application.
• How to avoid integration platform teething - Nice article why Serverless matters.
• Express to AWS Lambda - Blog post series which compares Express to AWS Lambda / Serverless.
• Cloudcademy blog post about Serverless - Deep overview of Serverless.
• Serverless computing use cases - Blog post about the ServerlessConf and Serverless use cases.
• A match made in heaven - Blog post by GorillaStack which shows the power of Serverless environment variables.
• Serverless computing growing quickly - Overview why Serverless computing is taking over traditional application development.
• MongoDB with Serverless - How you can use MongoDB with Serverless.
• ServerlessConf recap - Recap about the first ServerlessConf.
• Volume compute for a new generation - Brief overview what the serverless architecture is and why it matters.
• Serverless secrets - Blog post on the "serverless secrets" plugin and how to share secrets in a Serverless project in general.
• Martin Fowler blog post - Martin Fowler blog post on Serverless architectures.
• Continuous Deployments with Serverless - How to do continuous deployments with Serverless.
• Building Serverless framework v1 - Blog post announcing v1.0.
• Serverless HipChat connect - Walkthrough of Serverless HipChat connect.
• Scout Alarms move to Serverless - Short blog post why Scout Alarm decided to use Serverless.
• Serverless v1.0 alpha1 announcement - Serverless announcement blog post about v1.0 alpha 1.
• Migrating from v0 to v1 - Blog post series about the migration process from v0 to v1.
• The life of a Serverless Microservice - Interesting read on how to build a production ready Serverless application (everything described there could also be done with the Serverless framework).
• Serverless buddies - Blog post about npm packages which will help during Serverless development.
• Npm registry server with Serverless - Blog post about the npm registry which was built with the help of the Serverless framework.
• Serverless v1.0 alpha2 announcement - Serverless announcement blog post about v1.0 alpha 2.
• Economics may drive serverless - "Controversial" blog post about the serverless movement.
• Why the future of software and apps is serverless - Old blog post (2012) by Iron.io about the upcoming Serverless movement.
• What is serverless computing and why is it important - Iron.io blog post about Serverless.
• Serverless v1.0 beta1 announcement - Serverless announcement blog post about v1.0 beta 1.
• AWS Lambda in a VPC with Serverless - Blog post which shows how one can setup AWS Lambda and VPC with the help of the Serverless framework.
• Making sense of serverless computing - Blog post which goes into details about possible implementation scenarios / pros- and cons about Serverless computing.
• The serverless cloud - Blog post series about serverless computing in general.
• Building a RESTful API - Tutorial on how to build a RESTful API with Serverless v1.0 beta 1.
• Interview about Serverless v1 - Interview with Florian from the Serverless team about the mission of the Serverless framework.
• CI/CD with Serverless - Interesting read on how to use CI/CD systems with Serverless v1.
• 451 research report - Overview of the Serverless status quo / analysis of existing FaaS providers.
• 30k page views for $0.21 - Success story about a web app which used the serverless architecture.
• What does Serverless mean? - Blog post which explains the context of the serverless architecture.
• Serverless v1.0 beta2 announcement - Serverless announcement blog post about v1.0 beta 2.
• What is Serverless? - Trek10 blog post which explains what Serverless is.
• Scheduled Tasks - Blog post by Parall.ax on how to setup scheduled tasks with Serverless.
• Garden Aid - John McKim describes how he built his Serverless IoT project "Garden Aid".
• Game-changer or a recycled fad? - Critical post whether the serverless movement is just a hype or "The next big thing".
• Azure functions vs. AWS Lambda - Comparison of Azure functions and AWS Lambda.
• Serverless and Machine Learning - Post about serverless and machine learning.
• AWS Lambda and SQS - Blog post series on how to use AWS Lambda with SQS.
• Serverless is the new multitenancy - Overview post which explains the serverless architecture.
• Using DynamoDB with Serverless - Post which explains how to use Serverless v1 and DynamoDB.
• Securing serverless applications - 4 Steps to secure serverless applications.
• GraphQL with Serverless - GraphQL with the Serverless Framework v1.
• API around Google Cloud Vision - Building a Serverless API around Google Cloud Vision.
• Serverless v1.0 rc1 announcement - Serverless announcement blog post about v1.0 release candidate 1.
• Yemeksepetis shift to run serverless - Blog post by the team behind Yemeksepeti about their shift to a serverless architecture.
• Slack webhooks with Serverless - Post which describes how to use Slack webhooks with the Serverless framework.
• Serverless computing with Azure functions - Introduction to serverless computing with the help of Azure functions.
• Autodesks sample serverless architecture - A Sample Serverless Microservice Architecture from Autodesk.
• Understanding the serverless trend - Blog post which outlines what the serverless trend is all about.
• Architecture code patterns - Different serverless arhcitectural code patterns explained.
• Serverless without the framework - Blog post which explains why you should learn the fundamentals before using the framework.
• Local Serverless development - Tutorial how you can develop offline with Serverless (v0.5).
• Serverless and JAM - Tutorial on how to use Serverless with the JAMstack.
• Serverless "Hello World" - Quick intro to the serverless technology and the Serverless Framework.
• How to build a serverless Node.js microservice - Step-by-step guide on how to create a CRUD implementation with the Serverless Framework.
• IoT with the Serverless Framework - Blog post on how to use AWS IoT with Serverless.
• Building a better Australian census site - Interview which describes how two guys build an infinitely scalable serverless version of the Australian census web application on a weekend hackathon.
• Meet the Serverless partner Parall.ax - Story on how the Serverless partner Parall.ax built the David Guetta "This one's for you" campaign with Serverless.
• An abstracted serverless microservices architecture - Post which discusses an architectural approach how one can manage Serverless applications in a microservice way (with decoupled services).
• What is serverless? - Auth0 blog post which describes what the serverless architecture is.
• Creating Marbot - Creating a Serverless chatbot called "Marbot".
• Building a Facebook Messenger Chatbot - Tutorial how you can build a Facebook Messenger Chatbot with Serverless.
• Unit and integration testing for Lambda - How to do unit and integration tests with AWS Lambda.
• What makes serverless so attractive? - Post which explains the benefits you get with a serverless architecture.
• Creating your first Serverless app - Overview of the different serverless providers with an example usage of the Serverless Framework.
• Building a serverless screenshot service - Building a serverless screenshot service.
• Essential guide to serverless technologies - Guide which goes into detail about the serverless technology / architecture.
• Guide to serverless backend technologies - A compilation of the best of FaaS and BaaS.
• MoonMail technology stack - Post about the architecture of the MoonMail open source project.
• Why enterprises should care about serverless computing - Post which outlines the future of serverless computing and enterprises.
• Serverless v1 and fundraising - Blog post which announces Serverless v1 and the fundraising behind Serverless, Inc.
• Serverlss raises $3M to help developers go serverless - TechCrunch article about the fundraising and future of Serverless, Inc.
• Serverless, Inc. launches management framework - Post on the launch of Serverless v1 and upcoming plans.
• Serverless Nets $3M to radically simplify cloud infrastructure - BusinessWire article about the Serverless v1 launch.
• Bustles serverless architecture - How Bustle uses a serverless architecture to manage 52 Mio. monthly visitors.
• The Serverless Framework & GraphQL - Heavybit blog post about the Serverless GraphQL Meetup SF 06.10.2016.
• A look at Serverless GraphQL - Trek10 article about using Serverless with GraphQL.
• Serverless takes pain out of Lambda deployment - Infoworld article about the Serverless v1 release.
• Serverless and JAM (Part 2) - Tutorial on how to use Serverless with the JAMstack (Part 2).
• Developing Lambda applications with Eclipse - How to develop AWS Lambda applications with AWS toolkit for Eclipse.
• Technology behind MoonMail - What is the technology stack and architecture behind MoonMail?
• Serverless with Java 8 and DynamoDB - Blog post series about a serverless setup with Java 8 and DynamoDB.
• Serverless basic security - Introduction to serverless and security.
• Serverless and TypeScript - Getting started guide on how to use Serverless and TypeScript.
• Meet the Serverless partner Trek10 - Introduction of the people behind the Serverless specalized agency Trek10.
• Future of Serverless after v1.0 - The Serverless team shares their future improvements for the Serverless Framework.
• Building a serverless screenshot service - Tutorial how one can build a Screenshot service which runs 100% serverless.
• Adopting serverless - People and DevOps - Things to be aware of when adpoting a serverless architecture in your organization.
• Integration test serverless architectures - Post which explains how to integration test a serverless application based on the "ChaosMonkey" approach Netflix uses.

Talks

• JAWS @ re:Invent YouTube Video - Presentation video of the re:Invent talk.
• JAWS @ re:Invent presentation slides - Presentation slides of the re:Invent talk.
• The dot Post - The dot Post with a presentation about Serverless.
• Serverless computing - Intro to Serverless computing.
• What is the serverless architecture? - The serverless architecture explained.
• SC5 workshop - SC5 AWS / Serverless workshop.
• Deep dive on Serverless web applications - AWS intro to serverless computing.
• Serverless Framework with Austen Collins - Podcast about the Serverless framework.
• Serverless Meetup London 07.2016 - Video of the first Serverless meetup in London.
• Lambda Functions and Serverless Architectures - Talk about Lambda, AWS and the Serverless framework.
• Use Cases & Architectures - Trek10 talk about different use cases and serverless architectures
• Serverless and GraphQL - React Rally talk about Serverless and GraphQL by Kevin Old.
• Serverless architectures with Mike Roberts - Software Engineering Daily podcast about the Serverless architecture.
• Building a serverless architecture - Rackspace talk on how to build a serverless architecture on AWS.
• Serverless less server - Slides of the "Serverless less server" talk.
• How Serverless is reshaping AWS Lambda - Podcast with Austen Collins (creator of Serverless) about v1 of the Serverless Framework.
• Serverless v1 Fullstack Fest 2016 talk - Talk about the Serverless Framework on the Fullstack Fest conference.
• Apigee and Autodesks talk on Serverless Microservices - Autodesk explains how they're transforming their architecture to be serverless.
• Serverless microservices - General talk about serverless microservices by Ben Vandgrift and Adam Hunter.
• Building with the Serverless Framework - Austen Collins shows how one can build applications with the Serverless Framework.
• Serverless GraphQL Meetup SF - Serverless GraphQL Meetup SF 06.10.2016.

Amazon AWS resources

• Amazon AWS homepage - Official Amazon AWS homepage.
• Free Amazon AWS tier - Highly recommended to get started with Amazon AWS.
• AWS S3 - File storage solution (used to server files such as HTML or JavaScript).
• AWS Lambda - Details about the Lambda service.
• AWS Cloudformation - Details about CloudFormation.
• AWS API Gateway - Details about API Gateway.
• AWS IAM - Details about Identity and Access Management (IAM).
• Cloudcraft - Awesome tool to plan and visualize your AWS infrastructure.

Projects / Services

• Serverless examples - GitHub organization with several Serverless example projects.
• React Serverless - Use React together with Serverless.
• Serverless test plugin - Test plugin.
• Lang Adventure backend - Backend from Lang Adventure game.
• Serverless project written with ES2015 - Project example written in ES2015.
• Serveress Telegram bot - Telegram bot implementation.
• Serverless pre register - Product Pre-registration page.
• Serverless mapbox classic - API gateway that munges geojson coming from a mapbox classic editor.
• Universal Serverless React - React with Serverless.
• Serverless example - Experimental example project.
• DynamoDB CRUD example - How to use DynamoDB with Serverless.
• GraphQL Blog - A Blog powered by GraphQL and Serverless.
• Password of the day - Password of the day service. Utilizing TypeScript.
• func4 - Show and create users.
• Boxify - Boxify API service.
• MIDAAS API - MIDAAS API.
• Zanon IO Demo - Demo project.
• Cortex - Cortex project.
• Protocol service - Protocol service.
• Cat facts - Example how to use Serverless with Python.
• Notes - Note taking application written for the "Learn Serverless" book.
• Aquest - Demo application.
• Hello world - Hello World application.
• Garage - Managing cars.
• Slackbot scaffold - Scaffold for a Serverless slackbot.
• Lambda-React-SSR - Server-side rendering with React on Lambda.
• Authentication boilerplate - Authentication boilerplate for Serverless.
• Blog - Blog example using Serverless.
• MoonMail - Serverless newsletter service.
• Serverless GraphQL boilerplate - Official Serverless GraphQL boilerplate.
• SC5 boilerplate - Serverless boilerplate by SC5.
• Facebook messenger chatbot - Facebook messenger chatbot who searches for GitHub repositories.
• Facebook messenger bot - Feature rich Facebook messenger chatbot.
• Discuss - Forum software powered by Serverless, GraphQL, React and Redux.
• Elasticommerce search service - Elasticsearch service for WooCommerce shops.
• Serverless starter Python - Starter project for Python based project.
• Serverless (v1.0) Python Sample - A simple Serverless Python sample with REST API endpoints and dependencies.
• Express to AWS Lambda - Code of the "Express to AWS Lambda" blog post series.
• Serverless HipChat connect - Using Atlassian connect with Serverless.
• Serverless MongoDB - Example project on how to use Serverless and MongoDB.
• Serverless npm registry - Npm registry built with the help of the Serverless framework.
• AWS Serverless SoundCloud - Get artists tracks from SoundCloud.
• PhantomJS Lambda pack - PhantomJS wrapper for AWS Lambda.
• Garden Aid - Serverless IoT project to track gardening related data.
• Serverless Cloud Vision - A project which uses Google Cloud Vision together with the Serverless framework.
• Wolfram Lambda - HipChat Chatbot which integrates with WolframAlpha.
• Yith - Serverless private npm registry.
• Trevorbot - Slackbot which will say you where Trevor is.
• Quotebot - Facebook Messenger chatbot which will return a random quote on message retrieval.
• Weekly2Pocket - Saves weekly stories to the Pocket app.
• Pokégo serverless - Serverless-powered API to fetch nearby Pokemon Go data.
• Serverless Example - Different, feature rich examples for Serverless v1.
• Serverless microservice architecture - Code which demonstrates a Serverless microservice architecture with decoupled Services.
• Serverless Zwiftalizer - Serverless project which includes Lambda functions to support the Zwiftalizer frontend.
• React boilerplate - React boilerplate for applications which are powered by Serverless and React.
• Serverless screenshot - Code for a screenshot service build with Serverless.
• Serverless minimal - The smallest possible Serverless service.
• Serverless thumbnails - Serverless Service that takes an image url and returns a 100x100 thumbnail.
• Serverless authorizer - Example of a service that uses API Gateway custom authorizer feature to authorize your endpoints.
• Serverless artillery - Instant and cheap performance testing at scale (combines Serverless and Artillery).
• Delivery Framework - Boilerplate for version release pipeline with the Serverless Framework.
• Serverless Beer - Example application which uses DynamoDB.
• CRUD - CRUD service.
• Mailer - Service for sending E-Mails.
• Kinesis streams - Service to showcase Kinesis stream support.
• DynamoDB streams - Service to showcase DynamoDB stream support.
• Landingpage backend - Landingpage backend service to store E-Mail addresses.
• Facebook Messenger Chatbot - Chatbot for the Facebook Messenger platform.
• Lambda chaining - Service which chains Lambdas through SNS.
• Secured API - Service which exposes an API key accessible API.
• Authorizer - Service that uses API Gateway custom authorizers.
• Thumbnails - Service that takes an image url and returns a 100x100 thumbnail.
• Boilerplate - Opinionated boilerplate.

Plugins

• Webpack - Plugin to add webpack to Serverless.
• Scriptable - Make Serverless scriptable without writing a Plugin.
• Build plugin - Optimizes your Node.js functions before they're deployed.
• Write env vars - Access environment variables in Lambda functions.
• Alexa plugin - Support Alexa Lambda events.
• Multi responses - Allow multiple content types in response templates.
• Run function - Plugin to run your Serverless functions locally.
• Stage variables - Add stage variables for Serverless 1.x to ApiGateway, so you can use variables in your Lambda's.
• DynamoDB local - Allows to run dynamodb locally for Serverless.
• Stack outputs - Plugin that outputs all stack outputs.
• Command line event args - Inline event.json for the invoke plugin.
• WSGI - Helps you to deploy Python WSGI applications (Flask/Django etc.).
• External SNS events - Let you use an already existent SNS topic as the event source.

Literature

• Serverless book - By the Serverless team - Book focused on v1 of the serverless.com framework.
• Serverless - By Obie Fernandez - Book about Serverless development (also covers usage of the Serverless framework).
• Serverless Architectures on AWS - By Peter Sbarski & Sam Kroonenburg - Book focused on covering serverless architectures using AWS.

Professional services

• Trek10 - Consultancy.
• Parallax - Consultancy.
• SC5 Online - Serverless agency.
• Carrot creative - Agency.
• Microapps - Agency.
• Apiwise - Agency.
• Useful.io - Agency.
• WhaleTec - Consultancy.
• Hop Labs - Consultancy.
• Webscale - Consultancy.
• API talent - Consultancy.
• Branded Crate - Agency.
• Cloudonaut - Consultancy.
• PromptWorks - Consultancy.
• Craftship - Consultancy.

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Deprecated

Deprecated stuff. Kept for completeness.

General

• AWSM - Official GitHub organization for modules.
• Getting started with JAWS on AWS - Getting started guide with Serverless by Amazon (might be deprecated).
• Serverless starter - Boilerplate for new projects.
• JAWS local server - Local server which lets you execute Lambda functions locally.
• Shark Notes - Full note taking tool (frontend and backend) which shows how to do CRUD with Serverless.
• Serverless Registry - Unofficial plugin and module search.

Plugins (v0.5)

• Plugin boilerplate - Boilerplate code if you want to develop your own plugin.
• Serverless resources validation plugin - Plugin which validates your CloudFormation template.
• Alerting - Add Cloudwatch Alarms with SNS notifications.
• Lambda prune - Automatically remove unused Lambda functions.
• Autoprune - Automatically remove unused Lambda functions.
• Swagger - Swagger.io plugin.
• CORS - CORS plugin.
• Serve - Test your lambda functionality locally.
• Base path plugin - Setting a base path for all API Gateway endpoints in a component.
• SNS - Plugin for SNS support.
• Cronjob - Plugin for Cronjobs.
• API Blueprint - API documentation generator.
• VPC - VPC support.
• Client S3 - Handle static asset serving (like static frontends) via S3.
• Offline - An alternative to the Serve plugin, with Velocity templates support.
• Serverless optimizer plugin - Fork of the optimizer plugin which uses Webpack.
• JSHint - Detect errors and potential problems in your Lambda functions.
• Webpack - Use Webpack to optimize your Serverless Node.js Functions.
• Runtime Babel - Babel runtime for the Serverless framework (so that ES6 and ES7 syntax can be used).
• Runtime Streamline - Streamline.js for Serverless.
• Meta Sync - Synchronize project credentials via AWS.
• GraphiQL - Deploys a GraphiQL client to a public S3 bucket.
• S3 - Deploy files to S3.
• Swagger - Swagger plugin.
• Synchronous resource - Plugin for deploying custom CFN stacks.
• Models - Plugin for model support.
• Mocha - Plugin to use Mocha.js.
• Package - Adds function packaging.
• Sentry - Sentry integration for Serverless.
• Autoprune - Delete old lambdas.
• Secrets - Secret management.
• Vandium - Vandium PlugIn for Serverless.
• Command line event args - Pass JSON to serverless via the command line.
• Unit test boilerplate - Boilerplate for unit testing with Serverless.
• Dependency install - Serverless plugin for managing dependencies.
• DynamoDB local - Use DynamoDB locally with Serverless.
• Cognito manager - Easy cognito management for Serverless projects.
• Hook scripts - Run code whenever a Serverless action is run.

Modules

• npm registry - npm registry.
• Users - AWSM module for authentication.
• Test AWS users library - Test AWSM users.
• Stripe webhook - Webhook for Stripe payments.
• Slack webhook - Webhook for Slack.
• Slack - Slack boilerplate functionality.
• Examples - Module with example functions.
• Slackbot - Module to create your own slackbot.
• Images - Image modifications.
• Cloudfront - Puts CloudFront distribution in front of your project.
• S3 token vendor - Return upload tokens for S3 objects.
• Loggly - Provide logging to your lambdas.
• Middleware - Middleware for your project.
• GitHub Webhook - GitHub webhook support.
• Comments - Implements comments using DynamoDB.
• 3scale - Integrates 3scale API management platform.

Literature

• Learn Serverless - By Philipp Müns - Book focused on the serverless.com framework. Note: Deprecated.