The document discusses refactoring a monolithic application to a serverless architecture in 8 steps. It covers identifying service boundaries, organizing code into separate repositories for each service, choosing deployment tools, keeping functions simple and single-purpose, and migrating features to new services incrementally while maintaining compatibility with the existing monolith. The goal is to break the application into small, autonomous services that can be developed and deployed independently for improved scalability, resilience and development velocity.
Patterns and practices for building resilient serverless applicationsYan Cui
Lambda gives you multi-AZ out-of-the-box, but still, things can go wrong in production. There are region-wide outages, and performance degradation in services your function depends on can cause it to time out or error. And what if you're dealing with downstream systems that just aren't as scalable and can't handle the load you put on them? The bottom line is many things can go wrong and they often do at the worst of times. The goal of building resilient systems is not to prevent failures, but to build systems that can withstand these failures. In this talk, we will look at a number of practices and architectural patterns that can help you build more resilient serverless applications. Such as multi-region, active-active, employing DLQs and surge queues. We'll also see how we can use chaos experiments to help us identify failure modes before they manifest in production
Serverless technologies drastically simplify the task of building modern, scalable APIs in the cloud, and GraphQL makes it easy for frontend teams to consume these APIs and to iterate quickly on your product idea. Together, they are a perfect combination for a product-focused, full-stack team to deliver customer values quickly.
In this talk, see how we built a new social network mobile app in under 4 weeks using Lambda, AppSync, DynamoDB and Algolia. How we approached CI/CD, testing, authentication and lessons we learnt along the way.
Real-world serverless podcast: https://realworldserverless.com
Learn Lambda best practices: https://lambdabestpractice.com
Blog: https://theburningmonk.com
Consulting services: https://theburningmonk.com/hire-me
Production-Ready Serverless workshop: https://productionreadyserverless.com
Building a social network in under 4 weeks with Serverless and GraphQLYan Cui
Serverless technologies drastically simplify the task of building modern, scalable APIs in the cloud, and GraphQL makes it easy for frontend teams to consume these APIs and to iterate quickly on your product idea. Together, they are a perfect combination for a product-focused, full-stack team to deliver customer values quickly.
In this talk, see how we built a new social network mobile app in under 4 weeks using Lambda, AppSync, DynamoDB and Algolia. How we approached CI/CD, testing, authentication and lessons we learnt along the way.
Real-world serverless podcast: https://realworldserverless.com
Learn Lambda best practices: https://lambdabestpractice.com
Blog: https://theburningmonk.com
Consulting services: https://theburningmonk.com/hire-me
Production-Ready Serverless workshop: https://productionreadyserverless.com
Patterns and practices for building resilient serverless applications.pdfYan Cui
Lambda gives you multi-AZ out-of-the-box, but still, things can go wrong in production. There are region-wide outages, and performance degradation in services your function depends on can cause it to time out or error. And what if you're dealing with downstream systems that just aren't as scalable and can't handle the load you put on them? The bottom line is many things can go wrong and they often do at the worst of times. The goal of building resilient systems is not to prevent failures, but to build systems that can withstand these failures. In this talk, we will look at a number of practices and architectural patterns that can help you build more resilient serverless applications. Such as multi-region, active-active, employing DLQs and surge queues. We'll also see how we can use chaos experiments to help us identify failure modes before they manifest in production.
How to bring chaos engineering to serverlessYan Cui
You might have heard about chaos engineering in the context of Netflix and Amazon, and how they kill EC2 servers in production at random to verify that their systems can stay up in the face of infrastructure failures. But did you know that the same ideas can be applied to serverless applications? Yes, despite not having access to the underlying servers, we can still apply principles of chaos engineering to uncover failure modes in our system (and there are plenty!) so we can build a defence against them and make our serverless applications more robust and more resilient!
Serverless a superpower for frontend developersYan Cui
We'll look at some common mistakes JavaScript Developers make when they move to serverless and debunk misconceptions about Lambda performance and cold starts. We will also offer tips for optimizing your functions, and how best to test and deploy them using CI/CD best practices.
Looking in from the outside, serverless seems so simple! And yet, many companies are struggling on their journey to serverless. In this webinar, AWS Serverless Hero Yan Cui highlights a number of common mistakes companies are making when they adopt serverless so you can avoid them.
Patterns and practices for building resilient serverless applicationsYan Cui
Lambda gives you multi-AZ out-of-the-box, but still, things can go wrong in production. There are region-wide outages, and performance degradation in services your function depends on can cause it to time out or error. And what if you're dealing with downstream systems that just aren't as scalable and can't handle the load you put on them? The bottom line is many things can go wrong and they often do at the worst of times. The goal of building resilient systems is not to prevent failures, but to build systems that can withstand these failures. In this talk, we will look at a number of practices and architectural patterns that can help you build more resilient serverless applications. Such as multi-region, active-active, employing DLQs and surge queues. We'll also see how we can use chaos experiments to help us identify failure modes before they manifest in production
Serverless technologies drastically simplify the task of building modern, scalable APIs in the cloud, and GraphQL makes it easy for frontend teams to consume these APIs and to iterate quickly on your product idea. Together, they are a perfect combination for a product-focused, full-stack team to deliver customer values quickly.
In this talk, see how we built a new social network mobile app in under 4 weeks using Lambda, AppSync, DynamoDB and Algolia. How we approached CI/CD, testing, authentication and lessons we learnt along the way.
Real-world serverless podcast: https://realworldserverless.com
Learn Lambda best practices: https://lambdabestpractice.com
Blog: https://theburningmonk.com
Consulting services: https://theburningmonk.com/hire-me
Production-Ready Serverless workshop: https://productionreadyserverless.com
Building a social network in under 4 weeks with Serverless and GraphQLYan Cui
Serverless technologies drastically simplify the task of building modern, scalable APIs in the cloud, and GraphQL makes it easy for frontend teams to consume these APIs and to iterate quickly on your product idea. Together, they are a perfect combination for a product-focused, full-stack team to deliver customer values quickly.
In this talk, see how we built a new social network mobile app in under 4 weeks using Lambda, AppSync, DynamoDB and Algolia. How we approached CI/CD, testing, authentication and lessons we learnt along the way.
Real-world serverless podcast: https://realworldserverless.com
Learn Lambda best practices: https://lambdabestpractice.com
Blog: https://theburningmonk.com
Consulting services: https://theburningmonk.com/hire-me
Production-Ready Serverless workshop: https://productionreadyserverless.com
Patterns and practices for building resilient serverless applications.pdfYan Cui
Lambda gives you multi-AZ out-of-the-box, but still, things can go wrong in production. There are region-wide outages, and performance degradation in services your function depends on can cause it to time out or error. And what if you're dealing with downstream systems that just aren't as scalable and can't handle the load you put on them? The bottom line is many things can go wrong and they often do at the worst of times. The goal of building resilient systems is not to prevent failures, but to build systems that can withstand these failures. In this talk, we will look at a number of practices and architectural patterns that can help you build more resilient serverless applications. Such as multi-region, active-active, employing DLQs and surge queues. We'll also see how we can use chaos experiments to help us identify failure modes before they manifest in production.
How to bring chaos engineering to serverlessYan Cui
You might have heard about chaos engineering in the context of Netflix and Amazon, and how they kill EC2 servers in production at random to verify that their systems can stay up in the face of infrastructure failures. But did you know that the same ideas can be applied to serverless applications? Yes, despite not having access to the underlying servers, we can still apply principles of chaos engineering to uncover failure modes in our system (and there are plenty!) so we can build a defence against them and make our serverless applications more robust and more resilient!
Serverless a superpower for frontend developersYan Cui
We'll look at some common mistakes JavaScript Developers make when they move to serverless and debunk misconceptions about Lambda performance and cold starts. We will also offer tips for optimizing your functions, and how best to test and deploy them using CI/CD best practices.
Looking in from the outside, serverless seems so simple! And yet, many companies are struggling on their journey to serverless. In this webinar, AWS Serverless Hero Yan Cui highlights a number of common mistakes companies are making when they adopt serverless so you can avoid them.
Serverless technologies allow developers to go faster and do so much more with less. They allow businesses to innovate faster than ever possible before and the pay-per-use pricing model opens up a world of opportunities to improve cost efficiency. Cost optimization is no longer a guessing game, but a surgical operation that can target business areas with the most saving potential based on data. New business models based on pay-per-use will soon disrupt incumbents in established markets and create better value for customers. In this talk, we'll see how businesses around the world are using serverless technologies to drive their success and growth, and the lessons we can learn from them.
In this session, we'll talk about why Frontend Developers should care about serverless and how it gives frontend-focused teams the superpower to build scalable backend for their applications without all the traditional overhead of managing the infrastructure themselves.
Migrating existing monolith to serverless in 8 stepsYan Cui
Refactoring a monolith to serverless can be intimidating, but there are discrete steps that you can take to simplify the process. In this talk, AWS Serverless Hero Yan Cui outlines 8 steps to successfully refactor your monolith and highlight key decision points such as language and tooling choices.
Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HQw-UK2bHc
Real-world serverless podcast: https://realworldserverless.com
Learn Lambda best practices: https://lambdabestpractice.com
Blog: https://theburningmonk.com
Consulting services: https://theburningmonk.com/hire-me
Production-Ready Serverless workshop: https://productionreadyserverless.com
How to ship customer value faster with step functionsYan Cui
In this talk, I'm gonna tell you all about AWS Step Functions - how it works, when to use it, and some tips on how to accelerate app development so you can ship customer values faster.
Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuqS8NWHD4E
Real-world serverless podcast: https://realworldserverless.com
Learn Lambda best practices: https://lambdabestpractice.com
Blog: https://theburningmonk.com
Consulting services: https://theburningmonk.com/hire-me
Production-Ready Serverless workshop: https://productionreadyserverless.com
How to build a social network on Serverless (AWS Community Summit)Yan Cui
Many people are building different workloads using serverless technologies these days, but how would a non-trivial system such as a social network look like on serverless?
In this talk Yan will discuss his journey of migrating a social network startup to serverless, and how his team was able to improve performance, scalability and feature delivery using serverless technologies.
Yan will discuss how serverless technologies such as Lambda are used to implement each part of their system, including search, push notifications, timeline, user recommendations, and business intelligence. If you're wondering how serverless can be used to solve a wide variety of challenges in your business, this is the talk for you.
It used to be that WordPress required a very different toolset than other types of modern PHP apps. Now, however, PHP developers can use many of the same tools to work with WordPress that they would use with Laravel or any other PHP framework.
In this talk, we'll look at how to modernize development of WordPress sites by using Bedrock to give us a modern stack, WP-CLI to interface with WordPress through the command line or even create scripts to run operations, and ways to deploy WordPress that are easier and more stable than FTP. We will also exmplore a myriad of workflow tools to make your WordPress development more stress-free.
Serverless in production, an experience report (FullStack 2018)Yan Cui
AWS Lambda has changed the way we deploy and run software, but this new serverless paradigm has created new challenges to old problems - how do you test a cloud-hosted function locally? How do you monitor them? What about logging and config management? And how do we start migrating from existing architectures?
In this talk Yan and Scott will discuss solutions to these challenges by drawing from real-world experience running Lambda in production and migrating from an existing monolithic architecture.
In this talk, we will discuss some tips for alerting around your serverless application, and different approaches to troubleshooting issues in your serverless application: using first-party tools from AWS; using custom-built solutions; or using a serverless monitoring solution.
Serverless in Production, an experience report (AWS UG South Wales)Yan Cui
AWS Lambda has changed the way we deploy and run software, but this new serverless paradigm has created new challenges to old problems - how do you test a cloud-hosted function locally? How do you monitor them? What about logging and config management? And how do we start migrating from existing architectures?
In this talk Yan and Scott will discuss solutions to these challenges by drawing from real-world experience running Lambda in production and migrating from an existing monolithic architecture.
One of the most common performance issues in serverless architectures is elevated latencies from external services, such as DynamoDB, ElasticSearch or Stripe. In this webinar, we will focus on how to monitor, detect and fix latency issues that arise when our Lambda functions need to talk to other services.
How to build a social network on serverlessYan Cui
Many people are building different workloads using serverless technologies these days, but how would a non-trivial system such as a social network look like on serverless?
In this talk Yan will discuss his journey of migrating a social network startup to serverless, and how his team was able to improve performance, scalability and feature delivery using serverless technologies.
Yan will discuss how serverless technologies such as Lambda are used to implement each part of their system, including search, push notifications, timeline, user recommendations, and business intelligence. If you're wondering how serverless can be used to solve a wide variety of challenges in your business, this is the talk for you.
What do deployment pipelines look like when your system consists of 10s of different types of services? How do you know what to test before deployment? Should you release a service at a time, or bunch them up? This talk goes into the nitty gritty of managing build,test and release of micro services and also covers the often ignored tradeoff between testing before deployment, and testing afterwards.
Presented at GeeCon 2014
Serverless technologies like AWS Lambda has drastically simplified the task of building reactive systems - drop a file into S3 and a Lambda function would be triggered to process it, push an event into a Kinesis stream and magically it'll be processed by a Lambda function in real-time, you can even use Lambda to automate the process of auditing and securing your account by automatically reacting to rule violations to your security policy.
Join us in this talk to see some architectural design patterns that have emerged with Lambda, and how to pick the right event source based on the tradeoffs you want. Here are a few patterns that we'll cover in the talk: pub-sub, cron, push-pull, saga and decoupled invocation.
How to build observability into a serverless applicationYan Cui
Serverless introduces a number of challenges to existing tools for observability, we need to adapt our practices to fit this new paradigm. In this talk, we will discuss how we can build observability into a serverless application. We will see how you can implement log aggregation, distributed tracing and correlation IDs through both synchronous as well as asynchronous events.
Serverless in Production, an experience report (cloudXchange)Yan Cui
AWS Lambda has changed the way we deploy and run software, but this new serverless paradigm has created new challenges to old problems - how do you test a cloud-hosted function locally? How do you monitor them? What about logging and config management? And how do we start migrating from existing architectures?
In this talk Yan and Scott will discuss solutions to these challenges by drawing from real-world experience running Lambda in production and migrating from an existing monolithic architecture.
Serverless in production, an experience report (LNUG)Yan Cui
AWS Lambda has changed the way we deploy and run software, but this new serverless paradigm has created new challenges to old problems - how do you test a cloud-hosted function locally? How do you monitor them? What about logging and config management? And how do we start migrating from existing architectures?
In this talk Yan and Scott will discuss solutions to these challenges by drawing from real-world experience running Lambda in production and migrating from an existing monolithic architecture.
Sam Newman is a technologist at ThoughtWorks. This talk from FlowCon 2014 goes into the nitty gritty of managing build, test and release of microservices and also covers the often ignored tradeoff between testing before deployment, and testing afterwards.
The challenges of managing many, smaller deployable services mean that what we need in terms of deployment platforms are very different to what was needed before. But few areas of software technology have been experiencing as much innovation and churn as the deployment options available for microservice architectures. From appication containers, to docker, to mesos and beyond, this talk will break apart the myriad challenges that can come from managing microservices at scale, and how to pick the right technologies for you.
Beware the potholes on the road to serverlessYan Cui
Looking in from the outside, serverless seems so simple! And yet, many companies are struggling on their journey to serverless. In this talk, I highlight a number of mistakes companies are making when they adopt serverless.
Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hzNqxo0yTA
Real-world serverless podcast: https://realworldserverless.com
Learn Lambda best practices: https://lambdabestpractice.com
Blog: https://theburningmonk.com
Consulting services: https://theburningmonk.com/hire-me
Production-Ready Serverless workshop: https://productionreadyserverless.com
A. De Biase/C. Quatrini/M. Barsocchi - API Release Process: how to make peopl...Codemotion
We would like to suggest a sustainable delivery process that defeated the chaos caused by their usage complexity and now stakeholders, business, developers, quality assurance and users are happier. Velocity + High Quality = $$$ How can you use this approach to improve your business? What are the reasons why our nerdy world is so resistant to speed up time to market? Come with us in a nice journey through our experience in Hotels.com. Virtualization, parallelism, containers and other nice stuff for a final demo.
Serverless technologies allow developers to go faster and do so much more with less. They allow businesses to innovate faster than ever possible before and the pay-per-use pricing model opens up a world of opportunities to improve cost efficiency. Cost optimization is no longer a guessing game, but a surgical operation that can target business areas with the most saving potential based on data. New business models based on pay-per-use will soon disrupt incumbents in established markets and create better value for customers. In this talk, we'll see how businesses around the world are using serverless technologies to drive their success and growth, and the lessons we can learn from them.
In this session, we'll talk about why Frontend Developers should care about serverless and how it gives frontend-focused teams the superpower to build scalable backend for their applications without all the traditional overhead of managing the infrastructure themselves.
Migrating existing monolith to serverless in 8 stepsYan Cui
Refactoring a monolith to serverless can be intimidating, but there are discrete steps that you can take to simplify the process. In this talk, AWS Serverless Hero Yan Cui outlines 8 steps to successfully refactor your monolith and highlight key decision points such as language and tooling choices.
Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HQw-UK2bHc
Real-world serverless podcast: https://realworldserverless.com
Learn Lambda best practices: https://lambdabestpractice.com
Blog: https://theburningmonk.com
Consulting services: https://theburningmonk.com/hire-me
Production-Ready Serverless workshop: https://productionreadyserverless.com
How to ship customer value faster with step functionsYan Cui
In this talk, I'm gonna tell you all about AWS Step Functions - how it works, when to use it, and some tips on how to accelerate app development so you can ship customer values faster.
Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuqS8NWHD4E
Real-world serverless podcast: https://realworldserverless.com
Learn Lambda best practices: https://lambdabestpractice.com
Blog: https://theburningmonk.com
Consulting services: https://theburningmonk.com/hire-me
Production-Ready Serverless workshop: https://productionreadyserverless.com
How to build a social network on Serverless (AWS Community Summit)Yan Cui
Many people are building different workloads using serverless technologies these days, but how would a non-trivial system such as a social network look like on serverless?
In this talk Yan will discuss his journey of migrating a social network startup to serverless, and how his team was able to improve performance, scalability and feature delivery using serverless technologies.
Yan will discuss how serverless technologies such as Lambda are used to implement each part of their system, including search, push notifications, timeline, user recommendations, and business intelligence. If you're wondering how serverless can be used to solve a wide variety of challenges in your business, this is the talk for you.
It used to be that WordPress required a very different toolset than other types of modern PHP apps. Now, however, PHP developers can use many of the same tools to work with WordPress that they would use with Laravel or any other PHP framework.
In this talk, we'll look at how to modernize development of WordPress sites by using Bedrock to give us a modern stack, WP-CLI to interface with WordPress through the command line or even create scripts to run operations, and ways to deploy WordPress that are easier and more stable than FTP. We will also exmplore a myriad of workflow tools to make your WordPress development more stress-free.
Serverless in production, an experience report (FullStack 2018)Yan Cui
AWS Lambda has changed the way we deploy and run software, but this new serverless paradigm has created new challenges to old problems - how do you test a cloud-hosted function locally? How do you monitor them? What about logging and config management? And how do we start migrating from existing architectures?
In this talk Yan and Scott will discuss solutions to these challenges by drawing from real-world experience running Lambda in production and migrating from an existing monolithic architecture.
In this talk, we will discuss some tips for alerting around your serverless application, and different approaches to troubleshooting issues in your serverless application: using first-party tools from AWS; using custom-built solutions; or using a serverless monitoring solution.
Serverless in Production, an experience report (AWS UG South Wales)Yan Cui
AWS Lambda has changed the way we deploy and run software, but this new serverless paradigm has created new challenges to old problems - how do you test a cloud-hosted function locally? How do you monitor them? What about logging and config management? And how do we start migrating from existing architectures?
In this talk Yan and Scott will discuss solutions to these challenges by drawing from real-world experience running Lambda in production and migrating from an existing monolithic architecture.
One of the most common performance issues in serverless architectures is elevated latencies from external services, such as DynamoDB, ElasticSearch or Stripe. In this webinar, we will focus on how to monitor, detect and fix latency issues that arise when our Lambda functions need to talk to other services.
How to build a social network on serverlessYan Cui
Many people are building different workloads using serverless technologies these days, but how would a non-trivial system such as a social network look like on serverless?
In this talk Yan will discuss his journey of migrating a social network startup to serverless, and how his team was able to improve performance, scalability and feature delivery using serverless technologies.
Yan will discuss how serverless technologies such as Lambda are used to implement each part of their system, including search, push notifications, timeline, user recommendations, and business intelligence. If you're wondering how serverless can be used to solve a wide variety of challenges in your business, this is the talk for you.
What do deployment pipelines look like when your system consists of 10s of different types of services? How do you know what to test before deployment? Should you release a service at a time, or bunch them up? This talk goes into the nitty gritty of managing build,test and release of micro services and also covers the often ignored tradeoff between testing before deployment, and testing afterwards.
Presented at GeeCon 2014
Serverless technologies like AWS Lambda has drastically simplified the task of building reactive systems - drop a file into S3 and a Lambda function would be triggered to process it, push an event into a Kinesis stream and magically it'll be processed by a Lambda function in real-time, you can even use Lambda to automate the process of auditing and securing your account by automatically reacting to rule violations to your security policy.
Join us in this talk to see some architectural design patterns that have emerged with Lambda, and how to pick the right event source based on the tradeoffs you want. Here are a few patterns that we'll cover in the talk: pub-sub, cron, push-pull, saga and decoupled invocation.
How to build observability into a serverless applicationYan Cui
Serverless introduces a number of challenges to existing tools for observability, we need to adapt our practices to fit this new paradigm. In this talk, we will discuss how we can build observability into a serverless application. We will see how you can implement log aggregation, distributed tracing and correlation IDs through both synchronous as well as asynchronous events.
Serverless in Production, an experience report (cloudXchange)Yan Cui
AWS Lambda has changed the way we deploy and run software, but this new serverless paradigm has created new challenges to old problems - how do you test a cloud-hosted function locally? How do you monitor them? What about logging and config management? And how do we start migrating from existing architectures?
In this talk Yan and Scott will discuss solutions to these challenges by drawing from real-world experience running Lambda in production and migrating from an existing monolithic architecture.
Serverless in production, an experience report (LNUG)Yan Cui
AWS Lambda has changed the way we deploy and run software, but this new serverless paradigm has created new challenges to old problems - how do you test a cloud-hosted function locally? How do you monitor them? What about logging and config management? And how do we start migrating from existing architectures?
In this talk Yan and Scott will discuss solutions to these challenges by drawing from real-world experience running Lambda in production and migrating from an existing monolithic architecture.
Sam Newman is a technologist at ThoughtWorks. This talk from FlowCon 2014 goes into the nitty gritty of managing build, test and release of microservices and also covers the often ignored tradeoff between testing before deployment, and testing afterwards.
The challenges of managing many, smaller deployable services mean that what we need in terms of deployment platforms are very different to what was needed before. But few areas of software technology have been experiencing as much innovation and churn as the deployment options available for microservice architectures. From appication containers, to docker, to mesos and beyond, this talk will break apart the myriad challenges that can come from managing microservices at scale, and how to pick the right technologies for you.
Beware the potholes on the road to serverlessYan Cui
Looking in from the outside, serverless seems so simple! And yet, many companies are struggling on their journey to serverless. In this talk, I highlight a number of mistakes companies are making when they adopt serverless.
Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hzNqxo0yTA
Real-world serverless podcast: https://realworldserverless.com
Learn Lambda best practices: https://lambdabestpractice.com
Blog: https://theburningmonk.com
Consulting services: https://theburningmonk.com/hire-me
Production-Ready Serverless workshop: https://productionreadyserverless.com
A. De Biase/C. Quatrini/M. Barsocchi - API Release Process: how to make peopl...Codemotion
We would like to suggest a sustainable delivery process that defeated the chaos caused by their usage complexity and now stakeholders, business, developers, quality assurance and users are happier. Velocity + High Quality = $$$ How can you use this approach to improve your business? What are the reasons why our nerdy world is so resistant to speed up time to market? Come with us in a nice journey through our experience in Hotels.com. Virtualization, parallelism, containers and other nice stuff for a final demo.
Beware the potholes on the road to serverlessYan Cui
Looking in from the outside, serverless seems so simple! And yet, many companies are struggling on their journey to serverless. In this talk, I highlight a number of mistakes companies are making when they adopt serverless.
Building a social network in under 4 weeks with Serverless and GraphQLYan Cui
Serverless technologies drastically simplify the task of building modern, scalable APIs in the cloud, and GraphQL makes it easy for frontend teams to consume these APIs and to iterate quickly on your product idea. Together, they are a perfect combination for a product-focused, full-stack team to deliver customer values quickly.
In this talk, see how we built a new social network mobile app in under 4 weeks using Lambda, AppSync, DynamoDB and Algolia. How we approached CI/CD, testing, authentication and lessons we learnt along the way.
Recording of this talk is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evsz__BDprs
Real-world serverless podcast: https://realworldserverless.com
Learn Lambda best practices: https://lambdabestpractice.com
Blog: https://theburningmonk.com
Consulting services: https://theburningmonk.com/hire-me
Production-Ready Serverless workshop: https://productionreadyserverless.com
Essential open source tools for serverless developersYan Cui
In this session, AWS Serverless Hero Yan Cui will share the open-source tools and frameworks that he has found so useful in his journey with serverless. The list features libraries, deployment frameworks, plugins, middlewares, Lambda layers and much more!
Tin Can is quickly becoming the buzz among eLearning thought leaders. During this webinar we will go beyond the burning question: Can I use the Tin Can API with my LMS? And we will walk through how the technologies work together.
Learning by doing is hands-down the best way to learn. With serverless, the cost of experimenting (and learning!) in the cloud has reduced to zero, almost. In this talk, Yan Cui discusses the value of experimenting in the cloud and doing so in a tasteful manner (i.e. don't put your experiments into production!), and shares a number of interesting experiments that the serverless community has done, and some ideas and learning that we can take from them.
Recording of the talk is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeomaQR1IT4
Managing Director of iPullRank, Mike King, talks about how to leverage automated testing to ensure that developers engaged in Continuous Integration don't end up accidentally breaking the optimizations in place for SEO
FinDev as a business advantage in the post covid19 economyYan Cui
The impact COVID19 has had on consumer economy, ripples out to other service providers - analytics tools, etc because everyone is going to be squeezed. And the variable-cost (or pay-as-you-use) pricing model will be more appealing as companies tighten up their budgets for non-essential services/tools.
Build a social network in 4 weeks with Serverless and GraphQLYan Cui
Serverless technologies drastically simplify the task of building modern, scalable APIs in the cloud, and GraphQL makes it easy for frontend teams to consume these APIs and to iterate quickly on your product idea. Together, they are a perfect combination for a product-focused, full-stack team to deliver customer values quickly.
In this talk, see how we built a new social network mobile app in under 4 weeks using Lambda, AppSync, DynamoDB and Algolia. How we approached CI/CD, testing, authentication and lessons we learnt along the way.
Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evsz__BDprs
Real-world serverless podcast: https://realworldserverless.com
Learn Lambda best practices: https://lambdabestpractice.com
Blog: https://theburningmonk.com
Consulting services: https://theburningmonk.com/hire-me
Production-Ready Serverless workshop: https://productionreadyserverless.com
Challenges of building a search engine like web rendering serviceGiacomo Zecchini
SMX Advanced Europe, June 2021 - With the advent of new technologies and the massive use of Javascript on the internet, search engines have started using Web Rendering Services to better understand the content of pages on the internet. What are the difficulties in building a WRS? Are tools we use every day replicating what search engines do? In this session, Giacomo will drive you on a discovery journey digging in some techy implementation details of a search engine like web rendering service building process, covering edge cases such as infinite scrolling, iframe, web component, and shadow DOM and how to approach them.
DevOps Pipelines and Metrics Driven Feedback LoopsAndreas Grabner
The goal behind devops is Faster Lead Times
What this really means for Software Delivery -> my Kodak/Smart Phone Analogy
How and Which Metrics to use along the Delivery Pipeline to make better decisions along the way.
Join me for a retrospective look at how my team rewrote the core of a legacy application over six months and launched a well tested, stable product. In this session you'll learn how to work with an existing codebase without creating your own "legacy" code, by applying practices and tools such as identifying and using third party libraries, version control and code review, code quality measurements, BDD/TDD, and Continuous Integration.
Web Systems Architecture by Moshe KaplanMoshe Kaplan
If you are planning a large scale web site, or consider how to take you site to the next level, you should have participated in this workshop. Feel free to connect for further details.
When should you use cache and when not. Is memcached fit your needs? Should you use Read Through? How to overcome Geo Loadbalancing and invalidation. Another great presentation by Moshe Kaplan
Serverless in production, an experience report (Going Serverless, 28 Feb 2018)Domas Lasauskas
AWS Lambda has changed the way we deploy and run software, but this new serverless paradigm has created new challenges to old problems - how do you test a cloud-hosted function locally? How do you monitor them? What about logging and config management? And how do we start migrating from existing architectures?
In this talk Yan and Domas will discuss solutions to these challenges by drawing from their real-world experience running AWS Lambda in production and migrating an existing monolithic architecture for a social network to run on AWS Lambda.
Event: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/going-serverless-tickets-41866816776
JavaOne 2016 "Java, Microservices, Cloud and Containers"Daniel Bryant
Everyone is talking about building “cloud native” Java applications—and taking advantage of microservice architecture, containers, and orchestration/PaaS platforms—but there is surprisingly little discussion of migrating existing legacy (moneymaking) applications. This session aims to address this, and, using lessons learned from several real-world examples, it covers topics such when to rewrite applications (if at all), modeling/extracting business domains, applying the “application strangler” pattern, common misconceptions with “12-factor” application design, and the benefits/drawbacks of container technology.
Similar to Migrating existing monolith to serverless in 8 steps (20)
Delivered at the Serverless Summit 2022. Learn how to design serverless systems and tip the balance of trade-offs in your favour.
To learn how to build production-grade serverless applications, check out my upcoming workshops at productionreadyserverless.com and get 15% off with the code "serverlesssummit22".
At the heart of every event-driven architecture is a conduit for messages to flow through. AWS offers many services that can act as such conduit - EventBridge, SNS, SQS, Kinesis, DynamoDB streams, MSK, IOT Core and Amazon MQ just to name a few! These services have different characteristics and trade-offs around performance, scalability and cost. Picking the right service for your workload is not always easy. In this talk, let’s talk about how to pick the right messaging service to use in your event-driven architecture and play the game of trade-offs to your advantage.
How to choose the right messaging service for your workloadYan Cui
At the heart of every event-driven architecture is a conduit for messages to flow through. AWS offers many services that can act as such conduit - EventBridge, SNS, SQS, Kinesis, DynamoDB streams, MSK, IOT Core and Amazon MQ just to name a few! These services have different characteristics and trade-offs around performance, scalability and cost. Picking the right service for your workload is not always easy. In this talk, let’s talk about how to pick the right messaging service to use in your event-driven architecture and play the game of trade-offs to your advantage.
Serverless observability - a hero's perspectiveYan Cui
Yan Cui, an AWS Serverless Hero, will talk about the learnings from using serverless at scale.
He will cover the challenges for observability in serverless asynchronous workloads and the patterns to address those challenges, like using centralized logging, correlation IDs, tracing, lambda extensions.
How to ship customer value faster with step functionsYan Cui
Learn all about AWS Step Functions and how to use them to model business workflows and ship customer values quickly. In this session, we will talk about what is Step Functions, how to model business workflows as state machines, real-world case studies, and design patterns. By the end of this webinar, you should have a good idea of where Step Functions fit into your application and why you should use them (and why not!) to model workflows instead of building a custom solution yourself.
One of the key characteristics of serverless components is the pay-per-use pricing model. For example, with AWS Lambda, you don’t pay for the uptime of the underlying infrastructure but for the no. of invocations and how long your code actually runs for.
This important characteristic removes the need for many premature micro-optimizations as your cost is always tightly linked to usage and minimizes waste. As a result, many applications would run at a fraction of the cost if they were moved to serverless.
The pay-per-use pricing model also enables more accurate cost prediction and monitoring based on your application’s throughput. This gives rise to the notion of FinDev, where finance and development can intersect and allows optimization to be targeted to give the optimal return-on-invest on the engineering efforts.
And by building your application on serverless components, you can also leverage it as a business advantage and offer a more competitive, usage-based pricing to your customers. Which is going to be crucial at a time when businesses all around the world are affected by COVID and are looking for better efficiencies.
In this webinar, we will cover topics such as:
- How does the cost of serverless differ from serverful applications?
- How to predict and monitor cost in serverless applications?
- When should you optimize for cost?
- How can you leverage usage-based pricing as a business advantage?
Why your next serverless project should use AWS AppSyncYan Cui
In this webinar, Yan Cui and Lumigo Software Engineer Guy Moses will discuss some of the power of GraphQL and AppSync and why AppSync + Lambda + DynamoDB should be your stack of choice in 2021 and beyond!
AWS has improved Lambda cold starts by leaps and bounds in the last year. But for performance-sensitive applications such as user-facing APIs, Lambda cold starts are still a thorn in one’s side, especially when working with languages such as Java and .Net Core.
In this webinar, we will dive into strategies for improving cold start latency and how to mitigate them altogether with Provisioned Concurrency, and how Lumigo helps you optimize your use of Provisioned Concurrency.
In this session, we will look at 10 common use cases for AWS Lambda such as REST APIs, WebSockets, IoT and building event-driven systems. We will also touch on some of the latest platform features such as Provisioned Concurrency, EFS integration and Lambda Destinations and when and where we should use them.
A chaos experiment a day, keeping the outage awayYan Cui
Presented at ServerlessDays Warsaw
Recording: https://youtu.be/21HprKZQczs
You might have heard about chaos engineering in the context of Netflix and Amazon, and how they kill EC2 servers in production at random to verify that their systems can stay up in the face of infrastructure failures. But did you know that the same ideas can be applied to serverless applications? Yes, despite not having access to the underlying servers, we can still apply principles of chaos engineering to uncover failure modes in our system (and there are plenty!) so we can build defence against them and make our serverless applications more robust and more resilient!
One of the most common performance issues in serverless architectures is elevated latencies from external services, such as DynamoDB, ElasticSearch or Stripe.
In this webinar, we will show you how to quickly identify and debug these problems, and some best practices for dealing with poor performing 3rd party services.
How to ship customer value faster with step functionsYan Cui
In this talk, I'm gonna tell you all about AWS Step Functions - how it works, when to use it, and some tips on how to accelerate app development so you can ship customer values faster.
Recording: coming soon
Real-world serverless podcast: https://realworldserverless.com
Learn Lambda best practices: https://lambdabestpractice.com
Blog: https://theburningmonk.com
Consulting services: https://theburningmonk.com/hire-me
Production-Ready Serverless workshop: https://productionreadyserverless.com
When a Lambda function times out, it’s one of the trickier problems to debug, especially if the function performs multiple IO calls. What was it doing when it timed out? And how do I identify these timeout errors quickly when Lambda lumps them together with other unhandled exceptions?
In this webinar, we will show you how to identify and debug timeout errors, and strategies for mitigating timeouts and degraded performance more gracefully when there are underlying issues.
Serverless Security: Defence Against the Dark ArtsYan Cui
Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnXp29kQIwU
Real-world serverless podcast: https://realworldserverless.com
Learn Lambda best practices: https://lambdabestpractice.com
Blog: https://theburningmonk.com
Consulting services: https://theburningmonk.com/hire-me
Production-Ready Serverless workshop: https://productionreadyserverless.com
AWS has taken over the responsibilities of patching the OS and securing the underlying physical infrastructure that runs your serverless application, so what’s left for you to secure? Quite a bit it turns out.
The OWASP top 10 is as relevant to you as ever; DOS attacks are still a threat even if you can probably brute force your way through it as AWS auto-scales Lambda functions automatically; and did you know attackers can easily steal your AWS credentials via your application dependencies?
In addition to the traditional threats, serverless applications have more granular deployment units and therefore there are more things to configure and secure, and the tools and practices are still catching up with this fast-changing world.
Mastering AWS Organizations with Infrastructure as codeYan Cui
In this webinar, we will take a deep dive into AWS Organizations, what it is, and why you should use it. We will review how to use the open-source tool org-formation to manage your entire AWS Organization using infrastructure-as-code.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
30. @theburningmonk theburningmonk.com
“we want software that are made up of small,
loosely-coupled components, that can be
deployed and scaled indepedently, and can
fail indepedently affecting each other”
126. @theburningmonk theburningmonk.com
most Lambda functions are simple and have a single purpose, the
risk of shipping broken software has largely shifted to how they
integrate with other services
132. is our request correct?
is the request mapping
set up correctly?is the API resources
configured correctly?
are we assuming the
correct schema?
LambdaAPI Gateway DynamoDB
is Lambda proxy
configured correctly?
is IAM policy set
up correctly?
is the table created?
what unit tests will not tell you…
135. @theburningmonk theburningmonk.com
avoid local simulation, they’re more work than is worth
it, and hides common failure modes such as
misconfigured permissions and resource policies
pro tip #1
152. @theburningmonk theburningmonk.com
#1 apply Reverse Conway’s Maneuver
#2 identify service boundaries
#3 organize your codebase
#4 pick your tools
#5 keep functions simple
#6 migrate to new service (gracefully)
#7 rethink testing
#8 resilience as a service