The document discusses the implementation of AWS Lambda within a project, highlighting its advantages such as low cost, scalability, and ease of deployment, while also addressing challenges like execution limits and the absence of established best practices. It compares AWS Lambda to traditional web applications and microservices, emphasizing the flexibility and reduced complexity that serverless applications can provide. The author concludes that AWS Lambda and serverless architecture can be beneficial but are not a one-size-fits-all solution.

1. AWS Lambda
implementation
for live project

2. ● 12+ years of experience in IT
● 5+ years experience of AWS
● 3+ years experience in Business Intelligence
Vitalii
Hryhoryshyn
Tech Lead in Ven Commerce Ltd.

3. Short
Agenda
What is AWS Lambda?
Why did we need it?
Disadvantages of Lambda & how we solve it
Advantages of Lambda & results of implementation

4. AWS Lambda
what is it?

5. “let’s compare AWS Lambda &
simple web application

6. web application
Request
24/7
Response

7. web application
24/7

8. web application
Request
24/7
Response
Request
Request
Response
Response

9. AWS Lambda (serverless app)

10. AWS Lambda (serverless app)
Request
Response

11. AWS Lambda (serverless app)

12. AWS Lambda (serverless app)
Request
Response

13. AWS Lambda (serverless app)
Request
Response
Request
Request
Response
Response

14. Why did we need
AWS Lambda?

15. Prerequisites...
3 years ago...

16. Team
Structure
3 years ago...

17. 3 years ago...

18. Business
Structure
3 years ago...

19. 3 years ago...

20. 3 years ago...

22. Common
things in
Magento 1 &
Magento 2

23. Common
things in
Magento 1 &
Magento 2
word “Magento”

24. Common
things in
Magento 1 &
Magento 2
word “Magento”

25. ???

26. monolithic
architecture

27. complexity
obstructions
monolithic
architecture

28. complexity
regression tests
obstructions
monolithic
architecture

29. complexity
regression tests
deployment time limit
obstructions
monolithic
architecture

30. complexity
regression tests
deployment time limit
slow down the start-up time
obstructions
monolithic
architecture

31. complexity
regression tests
deployment time limit
slow down the start-up time
no easy adopting new technologies
obstructions
monolithic
architecture

32. break monolith!!!

44. Serverless application
Advantages: no need for server, low cost, scalable
Disadvantages: new “unknown” technology, no
ready development environment
AWS Lambda
Small project, using PHP & MySQL
Possible frameworks: laravel, yii
Advantages: PHP & MySQL
Disadvantages: server is needed
Microservice
Microservice VS AWS Lambda

45. Microservice
DevOps
server cost
security
updates framework &
language
dependency
24/7

46. AWS Lambda (serverless app)
DevOps
server cost
security
updates framework &
language
dependency
24/7

47. AWS Lambda (serverless app)
DevOps
server cost
security
updates framework &
language
dependency
24/7

48. AWS Lambda (serverless app)
DevOps
security
updates framework &
language
dependency
24/7

49. AWS Lambda (serverless app)
DevOps
framework &
language
dependency
24/7

50. AWS Lambda (serverless app)
framework &
language
dependency
24/7

51. AWS Lambda (serverless app)
framework &
language
dependency

52. AWS Lambda

53. troubles, that we faced during the implementations
Disadvantages
of AWS Lambda

54. application
structure
Basic structure
API write to db

55. application
structure
Basic structure
API
API
API

56. execution
limit
5 minutes of execution
now it is 15 minutes

57. other
limits
AWS Lambda Quotes

58. state
machine
State machine

59. state
machine
AWS Step Function

60. state
machine
AWS Step Function
Lambda 1
Lambda 2

61. deployment
No deployment mechanism

62. deployment
List of items to deploy
Lambda 1
Lambda 2
Step Function
IAM Role for Step Function
IAM Role(s) for Lambdas
CloudWatch Metrics & Alarms

63. deployment
AWS CloudFormation
infrastructure as code

64. access
issues
AWS CloudFormation deployment

65. Daily
meeting
Lonely man on Daily meeting

66. new
technology
No best practices

67. new
technology
No ready local environment

68. Language selection
PHP
language

69. the choosing of the language
No PHP
language

70. No PHP
language
Denial BargainingAnger Depression Acceptance

71. No PHP
language
BargainingAnger Depression AcceptanceDenial

72. No PHP
language
Bargaining Depression AcceptanceDenial Anger

73. No PHP
language
Depression AcceptanceDenial Anger Bargaining

74. No PHP
language
AcceptanceDenial Anger Bargaining Depression

75. No PHP
replaced
with cool
AWS features
Denial BargainingAnger Depression Acceptance

76. what did we get from Lambda?
Advantages
of AWS Lambda

77. no monolith
Security Patches
For any web application we have
updates of core, that can be
really painful sometime
ENV maintenance
For any web application we
should have some OS,
Nginx/Apache, Programming
language. etc
Regression testing
No relation to main workflow of the
web application
Less complexity
No hard relations to the main
project

78. no real
users
in our case

79. no limits for
deployment

80. no limits
from Magento

81. extensibility
API write to db

82. extensibility
API write to db

83. extensibility
API write to db

84. extensibility
API
write data to
S3 bucket
replace RDS
with S3 bucket
+ AWS Glue

85. allows to keep services and
data safe
IAM
allows to monitor
applications, prepare
metrics and alarms
CloudWatch
allows to prepare template
for easier deployment of
services
CloudFormation
allows easily execute small
amount of code to solve
simple business issues
Lambda
allows to store large amount
of data
S3
allows to build apps with a
few related Lambdas
Step Function
AWS Ecosystem

86. +1 potential
solution

87. +1 potential
solution
10+ new
Lambdas
Other
data
sources

88. Conclusion
AWS Lambda & Serverless apps are not a Silver Bullet,
but they can help you in many cases

89. Thanks!
You can find me at: vitaly.grigorishin@gmail.com
Any questions?