112: Guillermo Rauch - Building Serverless Applications with Now

In this episode, Adam talks to Guillermo Rauch building and deploying serverless web applications with Now.

Topics include:

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

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