Top all-time · #300
Serverless Framework
Company blog · serverless.com/blogprogrammingweb
Serverless Framework is the company blog at serverless.com, writing about programming and web. Since 2015, 167 different Hacker News readers have linked it 301 times, most often “The Serverless Application Framework Powered by AWS Lambda and API Gateway”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Rarely recommended · 1 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link serverless.com as the home of the open-source Serverless Framework for deploying functions across cloud providers, and its docs. Many comments cite it as a tool reference or mention its hiring posts.
- Recommended for · 1 comments
- one commenter said the Serverless documentation is so fast and clean that it blew their mind
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Deploy APIs, scheduled tasks, workflows and event-driven apps to AWS Lambda easily with the Serverless Framework.
Most-linked posts?
- The Serverless Application Framework Powered by AWS Lambda and API Gateway38 people · 40 mentions · first linked 2016-09-06
- /18 people · 26 mentions · first linked 2020-06-15
- Serverless and AWS lambdas para todos11 people · 11 mentions · first linked 2016-10-13
- When (and when not) to use DynamoDB On-demand5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2018-12-06
- /4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-09-10
- Serverless Framework V33 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-01-27
- Serverless Components3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-04-25
- /cloud3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-12-21
- Serverless Framework v43 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-10-27
- /3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-08-17
What Hacker News says?
Aren't there abstractions to reduce the impedance mismatch between serverless offerings, e.g. Serverless (javascript framework)[1], which should allow easier portability to self-hosted solutions - openfaas or openwhisk etc - including running in containers on more traditional infrastructure, which is cheaper for this particular scale and use-case? Sure, they're still FaaS which seems to be the unit of deployment for…
Comment linking /
on “Serverless: slower and more expensive”Submitted Releasing Serverless Framework V.1, and Fundraising as a story · 169 points
HN discussionI've spun up a lot of kubernetes clusters to test it out. A few months ago I also tested out Flynn, Deis, Deis Workflow, Openstack, and a lot of other options. I still haven't found a simple bootstrap script that gets everything set up on AWS and lets me simply deploy my application. And it's true that storage still seems to be an unsolved problem with kubernetes. Heroku is great, and free for small services. On the…
Comment linking /
on ““It's The Future””Submitted Serverless Aurora as a story · 114 points
HN discussionOn the TDD argument, you should know what a return for a function f should be when given an argument b. Ideally, you have a set of arguments B to which b belongs, and a set of results C to which the return belongs. Your tests codifies mapping examples from B to C so that you can discover an f that produces the mapping. Take another step and generate random valid inputs and you can have property-based testing. Add a…
Comment linking //blog/serverless-architecture-code-patterns
on “Don't start with microservices – monoliths are your friend”Submitted Static Site Post Scheduler: Using AWS Lambda and Serverless to Schedule Blog Posts as a story · 91 points
HN discussionThe Serverless framework is platform-agnostic and open source. You can use a bunch of different FaaS providers, or self-host on Kubeless or Fn. https://serverless.com/
Comment linking /
on ““Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of proprietary lock-in” (2017)”Submitted Serverless Event Gateway as a story · 72 points
HN discussionI think if you use something like serverless, you can abstract the cloud layer. I've never used it for anything more than a toy project though. https://serverless.com/
Comment linking /
on “Scaling to 100k Users”Submitted Serverless now integrates with IBM OpenWhisk as a story · 65 points
HN discussionhttps://www.serverless.com/ abstracts a bit, so there's less lock in, but agree typical lambda workflows aren't just plain code you can move to a different vendor. A big perk is easy triggers to glue things together like new S3 file -> run lambda
Comment linking /
on “AWS Lambda pricing now per ms”Submitted Serverless Scope: Get a customizable bird's eye view of your GitHub projects as a story · 43 points
HN discussionSee the serverless framework [0]. AWS built SAM because they wanted an in house option. [0] https://www.serverless.com/
Comment linking /
on “The Serverless Revolution Has Stalled”Submitted The Serverless Framework Wins Best Microservices API at the API Awards as a story · 41 points
HN discussionAs someone on a two-man-team who runs a lot of little "utility" functions in AWS Lambda with the Serverless Framework[1] to support our DevOps / Build processes, it's been one of the most productive tools in my toolkit (after the initial learning curve, of course). It allows me to stand up a practically maintenance-free endpoint in a matter of hours (usually to glue separate services together): * Want to run a quick…
Comment linking /
on “The Serverless Revolution Has Stalled”Submitted Running cross-cloud/multi-region serverless functions at half the cost as a story · 36 points
HN discussionI've seen a few serverless projects that are really, really jacked up. 1000s of functions glued together with little intentional design... basically one big pile of spaghetti code. Things like the Serverless framework[1] help, but ultimately today's serverless architectures feel like they forgot Dijkstra's warning: that the "Go To Statement Considered Harmful." [2] I'm still big on the approach for the right use cas…
Comment linking /
on “The Serverless Revolution Has Stalled”Submitted Show HN: Serverless Cloud – By the Creators of the Serverless Framework as a story · 35 points
HN discussionActually they're a bit of a pioneer in Serverless computing: https://serverless.com/blog/rob-gruhl-serverless-event-sourc...
Comment linking /blog/rob-gruhl-serverless-event-sourced-nordstrom-emit-2017/
on “Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A”Submitted How to Create a REST API with Pre-Written Serverless Components as a story · 31 points
HN discussionDeveloper Evangelist | San Francisco ONSITE | Serverless We’re a fully-remote team of developers (though this role is based in SF), spread all over the world, focused on building world-class developer tooling for the future of event-driven serverless infrastructure. In June 2015 we began building the world’s first serverless application framework, enabling developers to build web, mobile and IoT applications exclusi…
Comment linking /hiring.html
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2016)”Submitted Publish and Use AWS Lambda Layers with the Serverless Framework as a story · 26 points
HN discussionServerless, Inc | Full-time | SF or Remote (US, Canada, Europe) | serverless.com We started with the open-source Serverless Framework ( http://www.serverless.com ), we raised a great seed round, and now we're building more awesome tooling to help individuals and teams build serverless, event-driven architectures using AWS Lambda, Google CloudFunctions, Azure Functions and more. We're looking for the following: • Nod…
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2016)”Submitted What Firecracker open-source means for the serverless community as a story · 25 points
HN discussionServerless, Inc. | Remote or Bay Area | React Engineers/AWS Infrastructure Engineers Last year, we began building the first serverless application framework ( http://www.serverless.com ), enabling developers to build web, mobile and IoT applications exclusively on event-driven infrastructure like AWS Lambda. Since then, we’ve been on the front page of Hacker News several times, collected around 7,000 Github stars an…
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2016)”Submitted Strategies for implementing user authentication in serverless applications as a story · 25 points
HN discussionAt Serverless.com we're creating the tools that allow developers to build more and manage less. We're spearheading the movement that allows you to scale up your application on any cloud at any time and have fun doing it. We happen to be scaling up ourselves at a rapid rate and are looking for like-minded individuals who love the fast-paced nature of startups where you can make a huge impact in the early stages of a…
Comment linking /blog/serverless-platform-beta-helps-teams-operationalize-development/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2018)”Submitted Introducing: The Serverless Open Runtime as a story · 20 points
HN discussionServerless.com | Open-Source Developers • Dist-Sys. Engineers • Product Managers | Remote Due to the fast pace of change, many organizations cannot keep up (let alone lead) by building & maintaining all of their IT. This has given rise to the "serverless architecture", an application pattern that uses high-level managed services like AWS Lambda, AWS API Gateway, Auth0, Stripe, Twilio, Netlify, etc. to deliver applic…
Comment linking /company/jobs
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2018)”Submitted Serverless Framework Components GA as a story · 15 points
HN discussion
