Going Serverless For Fun and Profit
summary
Shows how to go from empty repo to working serverless service in under 30 minutes using Go, Terraform and cloud providers: Terraform reproducible deploy, go build + zip for AWS and uploading source to GCP where compilation happens. Demonstrates an HTTP hello world deployed to AWS Lambda and GCP Cloud Functions (first deploy ~1 minute, responses ~600 ms–1 s), covers memory/timeout billing tradeoffs, CI-friendly packaging, cron scheduling and fan‑out video processing patterns.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Start
- 0:30What is Serverless?
- 0:581.1.1. The good old Datacenters
- 2:391.1.2. The Cloud
- 4:101.1.3. Serverless
- 6:071.1.4. Google's AppEngine (aka PaaS)
- 6:39How does it work?
- 10:13Advantages and disadvantages
- 14:04Use-cases for Serverless deployments
- 18:22Available platforms
- 18:40Serverless and Go
- 19:39Demo time!
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