Serverless Workshop

Slides for my Serverless Workshop at Avast

Gist link https://gist.github.com/rarous/b936b8093b3cd959654bfd72a63c40f3

Transcript

1. Serverless @alesroubicek @topmonks
3. What is Serverless? • Computing Power on Demand • Pay as You Go, Don’t Pay for Reservations • CAPEX → OPEX • Operations, Scaling and SLAs are 3rd-party Problem • Ideal for distributed event driven systems
5. What isn’t Serverless? • FaaS on your own infrastructure (even on cloud) • Silver bullet
6. Serverless FaaS • AWS Lambda • Azure Functions • Cloudflare Workers • Google Cloud Functions • Zeit Now 2.0
7. AWS Lambda • Connecting tissue between AWS services • Event handlers for almost everything • Any language you want (via Layers) • Node.js lambdas even on Edge nodes • Pay for every 100 ms of execution • Easy versioning
8. AWS Lamda Gotchas • All issues of highly distributed systems • Architecture with latencies and cold starts • Testing is a challenge • Monitoring is challenge • Hard to maintain without other tools
9. AWS Serverless Services
10. https://gist.github.com/rarous/