Presented at ServerlessConf NYC 2016. In the last few months, Leslie been building an API with AWS API Gateway and Lambda to power a web app. This talk describes the pain points they encountered and how the Serverless framework helped them write an application with better code that was easier to deploy.

1. Building Better
Lambda Apps
With Serverless

2. What is the
Serverless
framework?

3. Making API Gateway
communicate with
Lambda is hard.

4. Lambda functions are
self-contained and
can’t share code.

5. API Gateway and
Lambda don’t have
environments.

6. Lambda functions don’t
support environmental
variables.