The Serverlist

What's New In Technology
In this Issue: Feature story // What's new // Get your hands dirty // From the community // Events // Inside Cloudflare

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Feature Story

How Workers Sites is making sites dynamic

Workers Sites lets devs build fast websites by deploying static assets alongside their other serverless functions. The announcement blog post goes into performance metrics from cities around the world. See the quick start guide for a walk through of deploying a site. The service starts at $5 per month.

What's New?

Is Serverless really as cheap as everyone claims? (dev.to)
Unless you are operating at massive scale, serverless is not just cheap, it's a steal. See Burke Holland explain why.

Instrumentation for Better Monitoring and Troubleshooting (Espagon)
Ever wonder how instrumentation enables developers to troubleshoot running serverless applications faster? Learn how here with Nitzan Shapira.

How We Built a Serverless Progressive Web App with Cloudflare Workers (Medium)
Progressive web app; no server management required. Learn how Krayx made a personal finance progressive web application completely serverless.

How to use Webflow to host parts of your site (Medium)
In this post, Liran talks about how to combine sites you’ve built in Webflow with your core app using Cloudflare Workers.

Building a Movie App with React Hooks and Cloudflare Workers (dev.to)
Workers and React and Movies, oh my! Learn how to make a serverless movie app with Jean Gérard Bousiquot.

Get your hands dirty

Building a Full-Stack Serverless Application with Cloudflare Workers (CSS-Tricks)
Check out this in depth tutorial covering how to build a serverless application that’s deployed to 193 locations.

Building a Serverless API using GraphQL, .NET core, C#, and VS Code (dev.to)
C# more your jam? Try out this Serverless API tutorial.

How do You Structure Your Code When Moving Your API from Express to Serverless Functions? (dev.to)
“I understand how to write and deploy serverless apps, but how should I organize my code?” John Papa explains how in this post.

7 Serverless Auth Strategies for Protecting Gated Functions (dev.to)
Authentication is important - being serverless doesn’t make this any less true. Check out several different auth strategies you can use for your serverless functions today.

Learning WebAssembly shouldn't be this hard (Book) (Level Up WASM)
A book that teaches you how to work with WASM in the browser - and in serverless functions.

From the Community

How to log webhook data in a Cloudflare worker (Cloudflare Community)

Convert a markdown file to a page deployed to Cloudflare Workers (GitHub)

Can I see the TLS cert of a remote website in a worker (Cloudflare Community)

Upcoming Developer Events

Growing Dev Platforms at Scale & Turning Static Assets into Dynamic Sites
Event Type: Meetup
Location: Austin, US
Date: October 3, 2019

ServerlessConf New York
Event Type: Conference
Location: New York, US
Date: October 7-9, 2019
Be sure to check out the Computing on the Edge: Bringing Serverless to You, Fast talk.

Growing Dev Platforms at Scale & Merging Serverless Storage and Compute
Event Type: Meetup
Location: San Francisco, US
Date: October 14, 2019

ServerlessDays Tokyo
Event Type: Conference
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Date: October 22, 2019
Be sure to check out the オール・ユー・ニード・イズ・JavaScript talk.

Connect New York: Build Serverless Applications on Cloudflare
Event Type: Conference
Location: New York, US
Date: November 6, 2019

A look inside Cloudflare

A Letter from Matthew Prince and Michelle Zatlyn (Cloudflare Blog)

Check out more about working at Cloudflare here.