Serverless - a backend thing that gives superpowers to frontend developers

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Claims that front-end teams get “superpowers” by moving preprocessing and APIs to serverless backed by concrete tools and numbers: CodePen migrates Sass/TypeScript processors to AWS Lambda and handles ~200k requests/hour with bursts to 5,000 parallel functions, cost example 20–50M requests ≈ $1,180/month; a Slack vacation bot runs on S3, API Gateway, Lambda, DynamoDB and Stripe and costs ~$0.14/month; demos use Claudia.js and deployment via Amplify, and these systems are shown working in production.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:13Why serverless matters
3. 5:12What is serverless
4. 10:29Key advantages
5. 13:20Superpowers for frontend
6. 14:05Codrops case study
7. 19:31Hackathon serverless app
8. 23:27Getting started
9. 28:06Serverless tools
10. 32:04Live demo API
11. 37:45Summary
12. 39:03Q&A

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