Build Systems that Drive Business
Sep 30–Oct 1, 2018: Training
Oct 1–3, 2018: Tutorials & Conference
New York, NY

The ops in serverless

Jennifer Davis (Microsoft)
4:45pm–5:25pm Tuesday, October 2, 2018
DevOps and SRE
Location: Murray Hill
Average rating: ****.
(4.00, 2 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Understand the role of operations in serverless, particularly in testing, monitoring, and debugging

Description

A function is deployed and alerts go off. When our intrepid site reliability engineer responds to the change in availability, she begins the task of debugging and implementing new tests to catch the issue in future deployments. While the nature and complexity of computing changes, the need for specialized operations engineering skills only increases.

Jennifer Davis explores three ways that operations plays a critical part in serverless through real-world examples in testing, monitoring, and debugging in AWS.

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Jennifer Davis

Microsoft

Jennifer Davis is a cloud operations advocate at Microsoft. Previously, she was a principal site reliability engineer at RealSelf and developed cookbooks to simplify building and managing infrastructure at Chef. Jennifer is the coauthor of Effective DevOps and speaks about DevOps, tech culture, and monitoring. She also gives tutorials on a variety of technical topics. When she’s not working, she enjoys learning to make things and spending quality time with her family.