Serverless in production, an experience report

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Company moves from EC2 to an event-driven, service-oriented stack centered on AWS Lambda, running 170 Lambda functions in production and paying roughly 5% of comparable EC2 costs. Deployment cadence rises from about 4–6 releases/month to 80–100 deploys/month. Concrete builds include a search pipeline via Kinesis → Lambda → CloudSearch, a BigQuery analytics stream (live in 1.5 days), a Redis-backed timeline using SNS for retries, and SSM for secure config. Monitoring uses CloudWatch logs, ES shipping and X-Ray traces.

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1. 0:00Introduction and background
2. 1:35Legacy system challenges
3. 4:45Transition to serverless architecture
4. 9:04Rapid feature delivery with Lambda
5. 14:29Choosing a Lambda framework
6. 17:20Testing strategies for Lambda
7. 25:14Continuous delivery setup
8. 29:11Monitoring and logging in Lambda
9. 33:11Debugging distributed systems
10. 35:17Performance tracking with X-Ray
11. 37:04Metrics and alerting pitfalls
12. 41:22Optimizing Lambda performance
13. 42:45Configuration management
14. 47:00Q&A and closing remarks

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