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Feature story

Serverless Computing vs. Containers | How to Choose

Serverless computing and containers are both architectures that reduce overhead for cloud-hosted web applications, but they differ in several important ways. Containers are more lightweight than virtual machines, but serverless deployments are even more lightweight and scale more easily than container-based architectures.

What's new?

6 Serverless Security Mistakes You Should Never Make (Checkpoint)
Securing your serverless application can feel overwhelming, especially when there are so many micro-services simultaneously running. This post outlines 6 mistakes you can avoid making in your serverless applications.

Serverless MySQL at Scale (Jeremy Daly)
“Serverless MySQL is a wrapper for Doug Wilson’s amazing mysql Node.js module. It adds a connection management component to the mysql module that is designed specifically for use with serverless applications.” - Jeremy Daly

Long-lived Connections in a Serverless World (Fanout)
The best way to handle long-lived connections in a serverless application is a commonly asked question. Although the options may not surprise you, weighing the pros and cons of the options outlined in this article can still help you make the right decision for your application.

How to Fail with Serverless (Jeremy Daly via YouTube)
Everything breaks all the time. Knowing how to fail properly is an important skill for handling things when they break. This post talks about how things fail in serverless and serverless patterns to handle those failures properly.

Get your hands dirty

How to Make a Simple CMS with Cloudflare Workers, GitHub Actions, and Metalsmith (CSS-TRICKS)

Tracking Stripe Payments with Slack and faasd (Mehdi Yedes' blog)

How we Built a Multiplayer Card Game in 1 Week (Medium)

Building a Scalable Chatbot using Cloudflare Workers (CodeWave)

TLDR: Writing a Slack Bot to Summarize Articles (Concur Labs via Medium)

From the community

Custom Shortlinks for CloudFlare Workers (GitHub)

Surfacing KV in interesting ways (Cloudflare Community)

COVID-19 Self-Assessment Chatbot (Built with Workers)

Purge a KV (Cloudflare Community)

Upcoming developer events

The State of Serverless in 2020
Event Type: Webinar
Location: Remote
Date: June 9th, 2020

ServerlessDays Milan
Event Type: Conference
Location: Remote
Date: June 4th, 2020

*Speakers for ServerlessDays Milan will be speaking Italian*

Are you aware of - or running - any digital events in the upcoming months? Reply to this email or send me an email at [email protected] to let us know!

A look inside Cloudflare

Cinco de Mayo - What are we Celebrating Anyway? (Cloudflare blog)

When People Pause the Internet Goes Quiet (Cloudflare blog)

Check out more about working at Cloudflare.