Serverless

Serverless

Inspiration

Serverless seems to get a lot of traction. Minimal setup, extremely quick deployment, pay only for function execution times, ...

The advantages are clear, serverless doesn't seem to be going anywhere.

In this project we'll be exploring serverless on Amazon Web Services.

What it does

This is just a rough idea for now Our application will take a Twitter hashtag as input, trigger a serverless function which will run some analysis logic to determine the emotions of the last #number_to_determine messages and return what the atmosphere in this thread is like at the moment.

If this is finished we can also leverage the power of serverless functions by listening to a certain Twitter hashtag by webhook call. This can then live update the atmosphere for a certain hashtag using websockets.

Some technologies we want to try out