Building Serverless API Backends

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Advocates moving APIs to AWS Lambda + API Gateway using the Zappa framework to cut ops and cost: examples claim 30ms function lifetimes, 3 million free seconds for new accounts, and one user reducing hosting bills from ~$1,000/year. Shows concrete code: a 42-line Python serverless live-video pipeline using S3 + CloudFront that issues temporary S3 upload credentials, updates HLS manifests on each chunk upload, and runs successfully without permanent servers.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 0:22Ritz Jones
3. 1:58Zappa
4. 3:15Traditional Web Server
5. 5:00Scalability
6. 9:07Designing Service Architectures
7. 15:28Authenticate with the Api
8. 18:24Conclusion

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