Topics include:

How Now is trying to bring the CDN experience to your server-side codeHow the constraints of serverless can nudge you to build more robust solutionsHow to talk to a database in a stateless serverless environmentBest practices for deploying serverless code when you have a centralized data storeWhy routing should be handled at the Now configuration level instead of in application codeHow Now functions are different from microservices, and how you share code between themHow Now bundles your project using buildersCreating a monolithic project with Now that uses different programming languages for each endpointHow the upcoming "now dev" feature will enable you to simulate a serverless environment locallyA behind-the-scenes look at the Now dashboard, how it's built, and the third-party services that power it

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Links:

ZEITNext.jsNow.shNow builders on GitHubNow Monorepo exampleWordpress running on Now on nowThird-party services for serverless projects: Cosmos DBScaleGridComposeDynamoDBFirebaseAmazon AuroraAuth0

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