Presentation: Seamlessly Migrating To Serverless with 80-Million Users
Share this on:
What You’ll Learn
-
Understand the philosophy of how trends like serverless and GraphQL are allowing business to reduce things down to its theoretical minimum computing?
-
Gain an intuition and understanding how serverless can be used in your environment.
-
Understand better how to reason about the tradeoffs, costs, and devops considerations involved with serverless environments.
Abstract
A deep dive into how serverless won over traditional approaches to web stacks. How it impacted DevOps, costs, and what we look forward to in the future.
Is your talk a story of a migration to a serverless architecture through a devops lens or maybe are you talking about practices and patterns for serverless? What's the angle that you're taking with your talk?
I'm starting with just building a little bit of a foundation for what I feel devops actually is. There's a lot of charts about like the process project creation, packaging, releasing, and monitoring in a serverless world. Then start talking about devops for us.
The way it's heading is to present what 2015 looked like and this is the sort of tooling we're using now. Then dig into a few devops topics with code examples. I'll cover things like testing, configuration, and specifics about how we're using tooling.
What I'm hearing is that serverless is a part of it, but the big theme is devops. Is that right?
Yeah. It's basically painting a picture of serverless devops today. We placed a bet on serverless. These are the things that happened along the way and where we wound up.
What's the big message you're hoping to get out?
I plan to discuss the philosophy of serverless. Things like how a lot of people look at the ecosystem and compare sort of serverfull devops to serverless devops. I'll be making an argument that it's not really an evolution as much as a total paradigm shift (with examples) when it comes to serverless. I'll get in depth with testing, configuration, deployment, and monitoring. Then I'll wrap that up with a cost analysis. The cost analysis part is because a lot of people ask what's your EC2 bill now versus your Lambda API Gateway bill before? Most people want to see those comparisons. When I offer the context I mentioned, there's more of an informed conversation that we can have about how you can measure the cost.
You mentioned theoretical minimum compute earlier when we were talking. What does that mean?
Theoretical Minimum Compute is the minimum amount of resources you need to consume to get the job done. That’s really the paradigm shift we’re talking about with serverless. It's a big part of what you can achieve with serverless. GraphQL is another technology that allows you to focus on the minimum about of resources to get the work done.
Similar Talks
Tracks
-
Microservices: Patterns & Practices
Evolving, observing, persisting, and building modern microservices
-
Developer Experience: Level up Your Engineering Effectiveness
Improving the end to end developer experience - design, dev, test, deploy, operate/understand. Tools, techniques, and trends.
-
Modern Java Reloaded
Modern, Modular, fast, and effective Java. Pushing the boundaries of JDK 9 and beyond.
-
Modern User Interfaces: Screens and Beyond
Zero UI, voice, mobile: Interfaces pushing the boundary of what we consider to be the interface
-
Practical Machine Learning
Applied machine learning lessons for SWEs, including tech around TensorFlow, TPUs, Keras, Caffe, & more
-
Ethics in Computing
Inclusive technology, Ethics and politics of technology. Considering bias. Societal relationship with tech. Also the privacy problems we have today (e.g., GDPR, right to be forgotten)
-
Architectures You've Always Wondered About
Next-gen architectures from the most admired companies in software, such as Netflix, Google, Facebook, Twitter, Goldman Sachs
-
Modern CS in the Real World
Thoughts pushing software forward, including consensus, CRDT's, formal methods, & probalistic programming
-
Container and Orchestration Platforms in Action
Runtime containers, libraries, and services that power microservices
-
Finding the Serverless Sweetspot
Stories about the pains and gains from migrating to Serverless.
-
Chaos, Complexity, and Resilience
Lessons building resilient systems and the war stories that drove their adoption
-
Real World Security
Practical lessons building, maintaining, and deploying secure systems
-
Blockchain Enabled
Exploring Smart contracts, oracles, sidechains, and what can/cannot be done with blockchain today.
-
21st Century Languages
Lessons learned from languages like Rust, Go-lang, Swift, Kotlin, and more.
-
Empowered Teams
Safely running inclusive teams that are autonomous and self-correcting