Build Systems that Drive Business
June 11–12, 2018: Training
June 12–14, 2018: Tutorials & Conference
San Jose, CA

Crossing the serverless fireswamp

Mike Roberts (Symphonia)
11:25am–12:05pm Thursday, June 14, 2018
Serverless
 Location: 230 B Level: Advanced
Secondary topics: Systems Architecture & Infrastructure
Average rating: *****
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Prerequisite knowledge

  • Experience designing or operating distributed applications deployed to a public cloud

What you'll learn

  • Explore the limitations of a serverless approach and a practical set of techniques for dealing with them

Description

Serverless! It’s a land of rainbows and unicorns and no operations and zero cost and everything just works, right? Hah! No. It has massive benefits, that’s true, but there are some significant traps that can catch you on the way: the flame spurts of unmatched scaling (that’s your database you smell burning); the lightning sand of at-least-once delivery (what do you mean my scheduled task cron-replacement may get called twice?); and of course the R.O.U.S’s (regions of unusual stability).

Mike Roberts leads a warts-and-all journey through some of the limitations of a serverless approach and shares a practical set of techniques for dealing with these concerns.

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Mike Roberts

Symphonia

Mike Roberts is a partner at Symphonia, a cloud technology consultancy based in New York City. Mike’s a longtime proponent of Agile and DevOps values and is excited by the role that cloud technologies have played in enabling such values for many high-functioning software teams. Mike can be reached at mike@symphonia.io.