AWS User Group UK Meetup #31

18:30 Registration and Networking

19:00 Introduction

19:10 Applying principles of chaos engineering to Serverless with Yan Cui

19:45 Embracing the Volatility of AWS Spot Fleet with Matthew Mead-Briggs, Yelp

20:30 Refreshments and Networking

21:30 Close

Talk 1: Applying principles of chaos engineering to Serverless

Chaos engineering is a discipline that focuses on improving system resilience through controlled experiments that expose the inherent chaos and failure modes in our system, before these failure modes manifest themselves like a wildfire in production and impact our users.

Netflix is undoubtedly the leader in this field, but much of the publicised tools and articles focus on killing EC2 instances, and the efforts in the serverless community has been largely limited to moving those tools into AWS Lambda functions. But how can we apply the same principles of chaos to a serverless architecture built around AWS Lambda functions? What are the limitations and new challenges that we need to consider?

Yan is an experienced engineer who has worked with AWS for nearly 10 years. He has been an architect and lead developer with a variety of industries ranging from investment banks, e-commerce to mobile gaming. In the last 2 years he has worked extensively with AWS Lambda in production, and he has been very active in sharing his experiences and the lessons he has learnt, some of his work has even made their way into the Serverless Well-Architected whitepaper published by AWS.

Yan is polyglot in both spoken and programming languages, he is fluent in both English and Mandarin, and counts C#, F#, Scala, Node.js and Erlang amongst programming languages that he has worked with professionally. Although he enjoys learning different programming languages and paradigms, he still holds F# as his undisputed favourite.

Yan is a regular speaker at user groups and conferences internationally, and he is also the author of Production-Ready Serverless and a co-author of F# Deep Dives. In his spare time he keeps an active blog at https://theburningmonk.com where he shares his thoughts on topics such as AWS, serverless, functional programming and chaos engineering.

Talk 2: Embracing the Volatility of AWS Spot Fleet

In this talk Matthew Mead-Briggs from Yelp will explain what AWS Spot Instances are and how you can slash your AWS bill by using them. He'll include some lessons learned from using Spot Instances in production at Yelp and share some war stories from when things go wrong!

Matthew Mead-Briggs is currently a Site Reliability Engineer with Yelp. Matt is a long suffering infrastructure engineer with a thirst for code. He has worked on many cloud and infrastructure projects in both the public and private sectors.

Thank you to our Sponsors
Deloitte
eSynergy Solutions
Rackspace
Yelp