new serverless and aws lambda resources

mattmakai · mattmakai · commit 9a56e0da3404 · 2017-12-07T17:24:39.000-05:00
diff --git a/content/pages/08-web-app-deployment/35-serverless.markdown b/content/pages/08-web-app-deployment/35-serverless.markdown
@@ -57,7 +57,8 @@ and not all of them have Python support.
   compete with AWS Lambda.
 
 * IBM Bluemix OpenWhisk is based on the 
-  [Apache OpenWhisk open source project](https://github.com/openwhisk/openwhisk).
+  [Apache OpenWhisk](https://github.com/openwhisk/openwhisk)
+  open source project.
 
 * [Google Cloud Functions](/google-cloud-functions.html) currently
   only supports JavaScript code execution.
@@ -69,6 +70,32 @@ and not all of them have Python support.
   can put together using existing code and services.
 
 
+### Serverless frameworks
+Serverless libraries and frameworks aim to provide reusable code that 
+handles common or tedious tasks, similar to how 
+[web frameworks](/web-frameworks.html) deal with common web development tasks.
+Some of these frameworks are built for a single service like AWS Lambda,
+while others attempt to make cross-serverless operations more palatable.
+
+Frameworks for building Python-based applications on serverless services 
+include:
+
+* [Serverless](https://serverless.com/) ([source code](https://github.com/serverless/serverless)), 
+  which is a useful but generically-named library that focuses on deployment 
+  and operations for serverless applications.
+
+* [Zappa](https://www.zappa.io/) 
+  ([source code](https://github.com/Miserlou/Zappa)) 
+  provides code and tools to make it much easier to build on AWS Lambda
+  and AWS API Gateway than rolling your own on the bare services.
+
+* [Chalice](https://chalice.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) 
+  ([source code](https://github.com/aws/chalice)) is built by the AWS team
+  specifically for Python applications.
+
+* [Apex](http://apex.run/) ([source code](https://github.com/apex/apex))
+
+
 ### General serverless resources
 Serverless concepts and implementations are still in their early
 iterations so there are many ideas and good practices yet to be
diff --git a/content/pages/08-web-app-deployment/36-aws-lambda.markdown b/content/pages/08-web-app-deployment/36-aws-lambda.markdown
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ has support for both Python 2.7 and 3.6.
 
 * [Code Evaluation With AWS Lambda and API Gateway](https://realpython.com/blog/python/code-evaluation-with-aws-lambda-and-api-gateway/) shows how to develop a code evaluation API, to execute arbitrary code, with AWS Lambda and API Gateway.
 
+
 ### General AWS Lambda resources
 * [The Serverless Start-Up - Down With Servers!](http://highscalability.com/blog/2015/12/7/the-serverless-start-up-down-with-servers.html)
 
@@ -64,3 +65,8 @@ has support for both Python 2.7 and 3.6.
 * [Serverless Cost Calculator](http://serverlesscalc.com/) estimates
   the amount that AWS would charge based on Lambda exeuctions, 
   average execution time and memory needed per execution. 
+
+* [Serverless at Nordstrom](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HHdEMWcvMI&index=9&list=PLnwBrRU5CSTmruZzR8Z06j3pGglBZcdDr)
+  is an awesome real-world story with the architecture behind a serverless
+  AWS Lambda application deployment at Nordstrom.
+
diff --git a/content/pages/12-meta/01-change-log.markdown b/content/pages/12-meta/01-change-log.markdown
@@ -17,6 +17,10 @@ on GitHub.
 
 ## 2017
 ### December
+* Crossed the 120k words mark for content, thanks to a slew of new tutorials 
+  and pages.
+* New [serverless](/serverless-architectures.html) and 
+  [AWS Lambda](/aws-lambda.html) resources.
 * Merged [PR#144](https://github.com/mattmakai/fullstackpython.com/pull/144)
   which fixes an issue with the wrong `psql` command in the blog post on 
   [Setting up PostgreSQL with Python 3 and psycopg on Ubuntu 16.04](/blog/postgresql-python-3-psycopg2-ubuntu-1604.html).
