2-day Workshop
Serverless platforms significantly reduce the cost of running high-performance web sites and API services in the cloud, but with a major impact on architecture, these services also require teams to re-think how to approach sessions, storage, authorization and testing.
This workshop is based on real-world experience of moving a large collaboration platform from Heroku to AWS Lambda, leading to a huge improvement in scalability and performance, and a significant decrease in cost.
The author of the workshop is Gojko Adzic, a key contributor to Claudia.js, a popular opensource deployment tool for AWS Lambda, and an award-winning author of several bestselling books on Amazon.
Gojko Adzic is a strategic software delivery consultant who works with ambitious teams to improve the quality of their software products and processes. He specialises in agile and lean quality improvement, in particular agile testing, specification by example and behaviour driven development.
Impressions
Key Learning Points
- How and when to use AWS Lambda and API Gateway
- How to perform commonly needed tasks, such as file conversion, image serving, connecting to third-party APIs and managing sessions with serverless architectures
- How to design scalable, high-performance web sites with single-page apps backed by cloud APIs
- How to get the most out of AWS integrations, including using AWS Cognito for user management and AWS IoT Gateway for browser and mobile device notifications at scale
- How serverless architectures impact testing, monitoring and deployments
- Good practices for multi-versioning, so you can run A/B tests easily and operate multiple versions of your system cheaply
- How to start converting monolithic applications to cloud functions
Prerequisites
Working knowledge of JavaScript. The tools and techniques you’ll learn about will apply for any programming language, but the coding examples will be in JavaScript/Node.js to keep things simple and make it easy for everyone to follow regardless of their primary platform. You don’t need expert level knowledge of JavaScript, but you should be comfortable writing simple functions and flows.
You don’t need prior experience with AWS services, but this would definitely be useful.
Schedule:
Day 1: Getting started with Lambda and performing basic tasks
- Introduction to AWS Lambda and API Gateway
- Create a simple hello-world Lambda service
- Logging, monitoring and analytics in a serverless world
- Create a simple file-conversion service, triggered by AWS S3 file uploads
- Create a simple web API so browsers can invoke your Lambda functions
- Connect Lambda functions to message queues for asynchronous processing
- Create a Slack command using AWS Lambda
Intended Audience
Software developers and architects migrating from on-premise applications to the cloud, or investigating the migration from self-managed applications (virtual machines in the cloud) or Platform-as-a-Service (Heroku, Google App Engine) applications to AWS Lambda and cloud functions.
What former Attendees said
Gojko is an experienced lector! It´s very practical & beneficial! Go for it! Very great excercises! Interactive! It was inspiring and interesting! Great presenter!
Schedule:
Day 2: Architecting serverless applications
- Designing applications for share-nothing architectures
- How to achieve user sessions and still work at scale
- Key things to consider when talking to third-party APIs
- Authentication and authorization with serverless applications
- How to design testable Lambda functions
- How to set up your workflow for teamwork and versioning
Watch Gojko talking about Serverless Architecture
Venue & Date
TBA
Price
EUR 1200 Early Bird
EUR 1300 Regular
Price excl. VAT.
For additional information please contact trainings@techtalk.at
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