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Migrating from a static server to serverless microservice architecture turned out to also significantly simplify the project and architecture, and made it significantly faster to respond and easier to maintain. You can see the change in the before and after architecture diagrams:
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I build mostly one-off tools that take some input, crunch the data, and output something back.
Take Neutrality.wtf , for example. It accepts a URL given by the user, and then fetches the page server-side (to avoi...
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Regardless of technology used, the specific architecture of a serverless application has incredible strong benefits that could potentially tip the scales for me and make a rewrite of my tools useful.
As an open source tool advocate, this was an appealing bonus for me. There was no question ...
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The most obvious difference is that in my static server, the server itself responded to all requests, and I had to set up layers of caching in order to fortify it in case of a sudden uptick. The caching strategy was a mixed one – I used an external service for the results and static pages, and us...
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The idea of serverless for a tool that is mostly static content is appealing. Generating assets on build and treating the delivery of pages as a distributed CDN (generated on-build rather than on-request) means huge gains in performance for the...
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None of my tools use private information, but privacy in general — how you behave online, not just your identity — is extremely important, and becomes even more so in the modern web. I wanted to migrate as many of my old tools to use SSL. There are free certificate services out there, and I’ve us...
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You can (and I did) deploy out of GitHub in a standard hosting server, but the sheer ease-of-use Netlify offers — and the integration with CI and CD tools right out of the box with incredibly easy configuration — means I don’t need to deal with all of this myself on the server side. When you have...
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Initially, caching was a bit of a challenge. As I mentioned before, my tools usually require a bit of a heavy operation in the back end, and are designed to be shared. If even one analyzed URL gets shared and becomes semi-viral, the server might work overtime and kill my performance — or, in the ...
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A Jamstack application consists of a static UI (in HTML and JavaScript) and a set of serverless functions to support dynamic UI elements via JavaScript. There are many benefits to the Jamstack approach. But perhaps one of the most significant benefits is performance. Since the UI is no longer gen...
When you understand the signs that your temper is about to boil, you can help yourself control it before it turns to rage. In the short term, it's much easier to deal with an impending outburst than to try and contain it after it's run wild.
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