Serverless Limitations

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In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk through some of the limitations of using serverless in your project.

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Show Notes

• 00:23 Welcome
• 01:08 Sponsor: Sentry
• 01:59 Sponsor: MagicBell
• 03:11 Topic introduction
• 04:44 Function limit
• Puppeteer
• 08:51 Node support
• 10:00 Cron jobs
• 11:12 Local development
• Miniflare
• 11:45 Database access
• SQLite
• 12:42 Sharing code
• 13:07 Environmental variables
• Netlify environmental variables
• 14:37 Timeouts
• 15:47 Sass is expensive
• 17:26 Infastructure as code
• 19:02 Search
• Algolia

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• Scott: LevelUp Tutorials
• Wes: Wes Bos Tutorials

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