Topics include:<ul><li>How Now is trying to bring the CDN experience to your server-side code</li><li>How the constraints of serverless can nudge you to build more robust solutions</li><li>How to talk to a database in a stateless serverless environment</li><li>Best practices for deploying serverless code when you have a centralized data store</li><li>Why routing should be handled at the Now configuration level instead of in application code</li><li>How Now functions are different from microservices, and how you share code between them</li><li>How Now bundles your project using builders</li><li>Creating a monolithic project with Now that uses different programming languages for each endpoint</li><li>How the upcoming "now dev" feature will enable you to simulate a serverless environment locally</li><li>A behind-the-scenes look at the Now dashboard, how it's built, and the third-party services that power it</li></ul>Sponsors:<ul><li><a href="https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=74a1c5d63dac&amp;utm_source=fullstackradio&amp;utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=DO_Dev_Signup_Cold_FullStackRadio_Podcast">DigitalOcean</a>, get your free $50 credit at <a href="https://do.co/fullstack">do.co/fullstack</a></li><li><a href="https://cloudinary.com/users/register/free?utm_source=fullstackradio&amp;utm_medium=Sponsored_Podcast&amp;utm_content=fullstackradio_PodCast">Cloudinary</a>, sign up and get 300,000 images/videos, 10GB of storage and 20GB of monthly bandwidth for free</li></ul>Links:<ul><li><a href="https://zeit.co">ZEIT</a></li><li><a href="https://nextjs.org/">Next.js</a></li><li><a href="https://now.sh">Now.sh</a></li><li><a href="https://github.com/zeit/now-builders">Now builders</a> on GitHub</li><li><a href="https://zeit.co/examples">Now Monorepo example</a></li><li><a href="https://wordpress5.now.sh/?p=1">Wordpress running on Now</a> on now</li><li>Third-party services for serverless projects: <ul><li><a href="https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cosmos-db/">Cosmos DB</a></li><li><a href="https://scalegrid.io/">ScaleGrid</a></li><li><a href="https://compose.com/">Compose</a></li><li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/">DynamoDB</a></li><li><a href="https://firebase.google.com/">Firebase</a></li><li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/">Amazon Aurora</a></li><li><a href="https://auth0.com/">Auth0</a></li></ul></li></ul>

112: Guillermo Rauch - Building Serverless Applications with Now