Functional Web Apps: A New Paradigm For Web Development
summary
Argues that building web apps from tiny functions plus managed storage yields more reliable, low‑boilerplate systems and shows it working end to end: a demo app deployed with Architect (Arc) to AWS Lambda and wired to DynamoDB, manifest turning into a ~500‑line CloudFormation document, local sandboxing, and iterative deploys that complete in ~55 seconds. Gives a cost example (25 million invocations ≈ $5 under given assumptions), admits a learning curve, and demonstrates the app running with small fixes applied.
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chapters (18)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:10Functional programming principles
- 4:19History of functional programming
- 5:41Time-sharing origins
- 7:03From servers to cloud
- 8:32Infrastructure as code
- 10:17Building blocks of FWA
- 13:28Why functional web apps
- 14:09Serverless cost and scalability
- 16:13Vendor lock-in concerns
- 17:45Learning curve and progress
- 19:12Demo setup
- 21:02Local dev and primitives
- 22:04Extending functions
- 23:31Front-end integration
- 24:59Debugging deployed app
- 25:43Cloud deployment
- 26:47Conclusion and additional resources
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