Leveling up with Serverless

Serverless has opened a whole new playing field and this very moment in time, is an opportunity to enter a new ecosystem, fast track your career, and make an impact on the business value working on projects that you never imagined were possible. In this session, Farrah and Danielle will share their motivations for learning Serverless, their personal experiences working in the Serverless ecosystem, the surprising ways that these new skills have benefited their careers, and why they believe that serverless can be for anyone and everyone who’s willing to learn.

Transcript

2. Next Level Serverless W E L C O M E
3. Danielle Heberling Software Engineer @deeheber Farrah Campbell Ecosystems Director @FarrahC32
4. My Intro to Tech was not like many I hear...
5. My Intro to Tech was not like many I hear...
6. Pacific Source Farrah Intro
7. Pacific Source Farrah Intro
8. Pacific Source Farrah Intro
9. Farrah Intro
10. Farrah Intro
11. Farrah Intro
12. Farrah Intro
13. Farrah Intro
14. Danielle Intro
15. Danielle Intro
16. Danielle Intro
17. Danielle Intro
18. Danielle Intro
19. Danielle Intro
20. What and Why We are both driven to learn, get better, & build skills. Marketing and Engineering work hand in hand. Farrah wants to be a nerd. Danielle desires to connect and learn from others outside of her immediate technical community.
21. What and Why
22. What and Why We knew we wanted to create something that was useful to our company (we focus on business value). We knew we wanted to build something that was helpful to a broader audience than just our current customers (We are a startup and always looking for new users). We knew we wanted an inclusive theme.
23. What and Why
24. What and Why
25. What and Why
26. Planning • Time • Team • Easy to integrate with other systems • Select which tools to use What and Why
27. Build the simplest thing possible.
28. What and Why - Tools We Chose
29. What and Why - Architectural Overview
30. Project Creation - Dev Env Setup First step and First Error of many more to come. Working through failures is part of the development process.
31. Project Creation - Invite
32. Project Creation - Add a Stack
33. Project Creation - Create Environment
34. Project Creation - Renaming Buckets
35. Project Creation - Our YAML Translator
36. Project Creation - Commit to Source Control
37. Project Creation - Deploying the Stack
38. Project Creation - Found a Bug
39. Project Creation - Roadblocks
40. Project Creation - Writing Code for the Function
41. Project Creation - Translated Text working
42. Project Creation - SUCCESS!!! I AM UNABLE TO QUIT AS I AM CURRENTLY TOO LEGIT ” “
43. Demo
44. What We Learned What we learned • AWS translate has a limit of 5000 bytes • We can fix bugs alongside building • Spacing is different in different languages • Will need additional functionality to process hyperlinks and images that appear in markdown formatted files • Working together is fun
45. Next Steps Next steps • Looping to allow for longer translations • Add polly (text to speech) • Ability to process more than plain text files
46. Why are we excited? Danielle
47. Why are we excited? Farrah
48. Finished Product serverlessing.tech github.com/stackery/language-translator
49. How are you going to use the Serverless Mindset? Closing
50. @FarrahC32 @deeheber