Are You Being Servered? — Exploring A "Serverless" Web

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Argument: pre-render pages to a CDN and use serverless functions only for the gaps, reducing attack surface and cache complexity. Demonstrations: a static clock that triggers builds every minute (≈455,517 runs) and a user-generated “lolly” site that uses 11ty to prebuild pages, stores records in FaunaDB, and writes/serves new entries via Netlify functions plus a webhook-triggered rebuild and fallback dynamic function when a page isn’t yet generated.

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1. 0:00Introduction and welcome
2. 1:27What is serverless really
3. 8:03JAMstack explained
4. 14:45Pre-rendering benefits
5. 20:18Serverless on demand
6. 26:40Live demo of vlolly.net
7. 30:56Q&A and closing

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