Schedule: Serverless sessions

The way a process works hasn't materially changed since the mainframe, but with the internet and serverless, what we need from a computer has changed dramatically. If we take technology invented for running code in a browser, and move it into the network, many of our problems may disappear. Let Zack Bloom show you why. Read more.

Knative is a Kubernetes-based platform to build, deploy, and manage modern serverless workloads. It provides a set of middleware components that are essential to build modern, source-centric, and container-based applications that can run anywhere. Join Nikhil Barthwal to explore using Knative to build and deploy modern serverless workloads in a vendor neutral fashion. Read more.

Julia Biro explains technical solutions and insights from building a true multiregion active-active file service using Lambda@Edge and S3 (with buckets in multiple AWS regions). Read more.

The Momentum Engine is a serverless application built on AWS using Lambda, DynamoDB, Kinesis, SQS, EMR and data pipelines, and S3, allowing Penguin Random House (PRH) to use continually updated, data-driven analytical models to automatically compose and send personalized book recommendations emails to its subscriber base—at scale. Brian Young details PRH's journey with this system. Read more.

Serverless computing has a number of benefits over traditional application infrastructure. However, implementing maintainable and scalable applications using serverless computing services poses challenges. Park Kittipatkul details best practices for building, maintaining, and instrumenting applications on multicloud serverless architecture. Read more.