JSJ 291: Serverless For JavaScript with Gareth McCumskey

Panel:

Charles Max Wood 

Aimee Knight

AJ O’Neal

Joe Eames 

Special Guests: Gareth McCumskey

In this episode, JavaScript Jabber speaks with Gareth McCumskey about Serverless For JavaScript. Gareth leads the dev team at Expat Explore in Cape Town, South Africa. Gareth and this team specialize in exploring the Serverless realm in JavaScript. The JavaScript Jabbers panel and Gareth discuss the many different types of serverless systems, and when to implement them, how serverless system work, and when to go in the direction of using Serverless. 

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

What does it mean to be Serverless? 
Since platform as a service.
Microservice on Docker 
Firebase
“no backend” 
Backend systems 
Cloud functions and failure in systems 
How do you start to think about a serverless system? 
How do decide what to do?
AWS Lambda 
Working in a different vendor
Node 4 
Programming JS to deploy 
Using libraries for NPM
How is works with AWS Lambda
Where is the database?
More point of failure? 
Calls to Slack?
Authentication
Micro Services
Elastic Bean Stalk
Static Assets, S3, Managing
Testing the services 
Integration testing
And much more! 

Links:

@garethmcc
@expatexplore
gareth.mccumskey.com
https://github.com/garethmcc
serverless.com

Picks:

Aimee

Serverless Architectures 
NG-BE Conference 

AJ

Documentary on Enron
Hard Thing about Hard Things 

Charles

Serverless Framework
The Storm Light Achieves 
Avengers: Infinity War

Gareth

Building MicroServices 
Skeptics Guide To The Universe Podcast
Expate Explore 

Joe 

Wonder -  Movie
Gloom In Space - Board Game 

Special Guest: Gareth McCumskey.