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Approaching problems with a serverless first mindset means rethinking, re-architecting, and rethinking again. We’ll talk about interesting problems and case studies that may come up in serverless architectures and how we can approach them from a new angle to bring them into the age of serverless computing. Serverless isn’t just FaaS, it isn’t just about the …

It became essential for businesses to protect their applications, services and customer data from attackers. If you want to stay competitive, knowing how to efficiently and easily apply security and auth while being aware of the most common pitfalls is key in today’s serverless world. Traditional machine-to-machine auth approaches where you can rely on a sta…

3:32 am. PagerDuty wakes you up, DynamoDB is throttling. You open CloudWatch – 542 issues in the last hour. – How do you zoom in on the root cause? – How do you zoom out to understand the business impact? – How do you troubleshoot in an everchanging environment? In this session, we will share the new methodologies for troubleshooting complex serverless envir…

Serverless! Is it yet another buzzword? Is it real? Is it for big corporates? Or,is it for everyone? Where can we find answers to such questions? Well, the best way to answer such concerns is to simply talk about your serverless experience and take the audience through the journey you have been through! And that is exactly what this talk is aimed at. The Sho…

Pay-per-use – we all like it, right? It’s one of the core principals of serverless, but it can also be a challenge. How can we plan our monthly budget if we don’t know what our bill is going to look like? What are we really spending our money on? And of course, what needs to be monitored? Pay-per-use is one of the major drivers of serverless adoption. Small …

"Knative is a Kubernetes-based platform that comes with a set of building blocks to build, deploy, and manage modern serverless workloads. Knative consists of three major areas: Build, Serving and Eventing. The session gives you an introduction of the Knative Eventing component and walks you through an end-to-end demo, showing the lifecycle of event-driven w…

"Serverless applications are the epitome of highly distributed, microservices applications. Execution happens everywhere – both inside and outside the serverless compute environment. For example, your functions could be triggered by an external service, then execute some code within AWS Lambda, then send a request over to a database, which then requires AWS …

"As companies are adopting serverless architectures and moving away from monolith and microservice-based deployments, they realise that the challenge lies not only in the new rewrite of an old application, but also in the shift towards a new way of thinking. We see many serverless architecture patterns today, such as function chaining, function chaining with…

Managed services have become a main part of modern cloud applications. Utilizing existing services via APIs provides developers with great flexibility and velocity. However, the significant reliance on these services, which you have no control over, puts your application’s performance and costs in danger. In recent years, managed SaaS services, usually consu…

"In this session you will learn about the benefits of Serverless for Start-up and why LASERHUB sees a lot of potential by adopting Serverless Framework in early use cases. By limiting the scope of Serverless, we balanced risk and value add, but entered a new world for development and DevOps in a 2-weeks time span. This talk should address software engineers …

"Come see how easy it can be to use Google Firebase to take your app idea from concept to production. In this workshop you will build your own messaging application, start to finish, with support for images, markdown, and connecting with friends. While building this web app will learn about many Firebase features, including: * Firestore * Cloud Functions * C…

Why does it have to be Serverless versus Microservices? Couldn’t it be rather Microservices with Serverless? Based on some of the well-accepted principles of Microservices we can use Serverless architectures and technologies to build highly focused Microservices – which we might call Nanoservices. Christian Weyer will show you a pragmatic approach how to bui…

Serverless is fun and easy. But what about monitoring? Is there a monitoring monster lurking around the corner? I’ll admit, there are tons of options to tackle the monster. But what features does AWS offer? And more importantly, how can you best use them to make sure you aren’t called out of bed at night? In this talk I’ll speak from the heart and share my o…

One of the advantages of building on Serverless is the drastic reduction in development time and time to market. This session will show you how to build a powerful recommendation engine using image recognition technology and all run on server-less in 72 hours. There will be a demo session. This talk is rated level 200-300 with a target audience of engineers,…