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Hitchhiker's Guide to Serverless - Node Interactive
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to “Serverless” Javascript Steve Faulkner, Bustle
Steve Faulkner @southpolesteve
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Director of Platform Engineering
hype! serverless 101 why? why not? serverless @ bustle tools
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The people who are serving websites on Lambda or something
are not only doing it wrong, they are wasting money while locking themselves in to an architecture that doesn't fit their app - @scrollaway on HN
doesn’t scale not production ready too slow too expensive
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serverless for 99% of user requests
10-20 million calls per day
< 200ms
< $$$
Serverless 101
there are still servers…
…but what if we abstracted them away?
as a Service
Where does the business logic go?
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Functions as a Service
run only when needed
pay only when running
don’t bother me with details
request myApp() response
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re:invent happening right now…
app.get(‘/‘, sayHello) function sayHello(req,res){ res.end(‘hello!’) }
app.get(‘/‘, sayHello) function sayHello(req,res){ res.end(‘hello!’) }
app.get(‘/‘, sayHello) function sayHello(req,res){ res.end(‘hello!’) } Functions Routing
Functions-aaS + Routing-aaS
Lambda + API Gateway
Lambda
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write code zip upload fn()
node java python
node shim + rust/go/haskell
function(event,context,cb){ cb(null, ‘Hello World’) }
versioning aliases RAM + CPU logging non-http events
API Gateway
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click around a lot
cache/throttle authorization api keys logging/metrics custom domains ssl swagger import/export
why serverless?
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ops
2011 startup ops: heroku down? get lunch!
2016 startup ops: have a plan
serverless ops: LOL! WAT SERVERS?
serverless ops: LOL! WAT SERVERS?
#noops
“serverless” ops: have a plan
benchmarks fallbacks load testing monitoring #lessops
scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale
scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale scale
1 -> 1000 RPS
1000 -> 0 RPS
iteration
single function deployments
<1s deploys
$$$$
events API
ec2 ~$2500/mo
lambda api gateway ~$400/mo
why not?
lock in
const express = require(‘express’) const fn = require(./lambda-fn/) const app
= express() app.get('/', (req, res) => { fn.handler(null, null, (err, result) => { res.json(result) }) }); app.listen(3000)
cold functions
const data = loadBigData() // Takes 15s module.exports.handler = function(e,ctx,cb){
processBigData(data, cb) }
~3.5 hours - Eric @ iopipe.com
long tasks
5 min max
s3(3GB) Lambda Kinesis Firehose Elasticsearch
testing
test in the cloud?
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frontend
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API Gateway S3 Lambda(SSR) html + js
backend
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API Gateway Lambda JSON dynamodb redis
tools!!!
serverless framework node-lambda apex claudia.js
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npm install -g shep
JavaScript Only no CF,terraform swagger webpack environments
shep new my-api shep generate endpoint shep deploy production
coming soon… shep server shep docs shep logs —stream
questions? Steve Faulkner @southpolesteve