Lessons from building serverless services in bleeding edge python

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Builds Flask APIs deployed with Zappa + Lambda and API Gateway, handling authentication via JWTs but hitting a pycrypto syntax error because Zappa ships precompiled Amazon Linux binaries for Python runtimes. Workaround compiles Python/pycrypto on Amazon Linux in CI (CodeShip), injects the built wheel into Zappa’s package, and deploys successfully. Notes: cold-start overhead ~40 ms, AWS gives 1M free invocations and 400k GB-seconds free, and bleeding‑edge runtimes and toolchains are fragile but workable.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 2:05Serverless Services
3. 4:00ZOA
4. 7:48Functions
5. 11:18AWS Lambda
6. 13:15gigabyte seconds
7. 14:40JSON web tokens
8. 16:15Demo
9. 18:03Syntax errors
10. 19:26Compile from source
11. 22:02Build pipeline
12. 23:53New shiny functions
13. 24:16Service architecture
14. 24:54Repo bloat
15. 25:58Questions

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