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Serverless cloud showdown: Orchestrating functions

Kenny Baas-Schwegler (Xebia), Marc Duiker (Xpirit)
1:15pm–2:05pm Tuesday, February 5, 2019
Cloud native
Location: Sutton Center/Sutton South
Secondary topics:  Hands-on, Overview
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Who is this presentation for?

  • Architects and developers

Level

Beginner

Prerequisite knowledge

  • A basic understanding of serverless and functions as a service

What you'll learn

  • Learn the key differences between the bigger cloud vendors when implementing cloud functions

Description

Serverless and event-driven architectures are vastly growing in popularity. Companies are jumping on the bandwagon fast, especially now that it’s so easy and cheap to create them in the bigger cloud vendors. But what cloud vendor is best for a specific problem? What are the capabilities and limitations of each cloud vendor? What are the differences between serverless functions implementations?

As fans of serverless and event-driven architectures, Kenny Baas-Schwegler and Marc Duiker wanted to see how easy it was to create a serverless application in AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud—specifically, by comparing how easy it is to orchestrate functions, using a current car park management example solution.

Join them to learn the pros and cons of each cloud vendor, as they show you the solutions for this use case in the different clouds—AWS Lambda with Step Functions and DynamoDB, Azure Durable Functions and Azure Table Storage, and Google Cloud Functions with Google Cloud Datastore.

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Kenny Baas-Schwegler

Xebia

Kenny Baas-Schwegler is a software engineer and consultant focusing on software quality at Xebia. He mentors teams by using practices and techniques from domain-driven design, behavior-driven development, test-driven development, and continuous delivery. He’s an advocate for collaborating in open spaces and using techniques such as event storming, feature mapping, and example mapping to engineer requirements and design of software along with business stakeholders. With these methods, he aims to create a transparent collaborative domain space with constant and instant feedback of the software that is being built. Besides his daily work, he also organizes meetups for Behaviour Driven Development NL and Domain Driven Design NL.

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Marc Duiker

Xpirit

Marc Duiker is a lead consultant at Xpirit. Drawing on his strong focus on serverless and event-driven architectures and an extensive knowledge of the Azure platform, Marc likes to help organizations make effective use of cloud-based solutions using PaaS and FaaS services. He’s highly involved in the developer community and is a regular speaker at meetups and conferences related to the Azure cloud and serverless technologies. In his spare time, he frequently captures the beauty of old abandoned buildings with his camera.