DevOps Exchange February 2018 - Serverless

Hi Everyone,

Aaaaand we're back to kickoff 2018! We're starting back our monthly DevOps meetup this year with the hot topic on Serverless - what does DevOps look like when everything runs as a function? We're also excited that we'll be hosting our event at Chartboost (https://www.chartboost.com/) this month.

Come grab a beer & pizza with us and learn something new.

The agenda will be as follows:

6.00pm - 6:30pm — Drinks and Food
6:30pm - 6:50pm — Building Composable Services. Noah Kantrowitz, Software Engineer @ SAP
6:50pm - 7:10pm — The Decentralized Future of Cloud Infrastructure, Greg Osuri, CEO & Founder @ Overclock Labs
7:10pm - 7:30pm — Serverless DevOps. Wat? David Wells, Software Engineer @ Serverless
7:30pm - 8:00pm — Networking
Optional - Drinks outside after for anyone who wants to hang around!

Speakers:

Building Composable Services
Noah Kantrowitz, Software Engineer @ SAP

Composable services and tools have been a hot topic lately. Learn how serverless and microservices can help bring your ideas to life faster while being more reliable and resilient. Noah will show what frameworks and techniques you can use to build composable services and infrastructure, and help you avoid some of the common pitfalls.

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The Decentralized Future of Cloud Infrastructure
Greg Osuri, CEO & Founder @ Overclock Labs

Up to 85% of the world’s computing capacity sits unused in datacenters all over the globe while hyperscale cloud compute providers enjoy bloated margins born of lack of competition. Decentralization corrects the unequal concentration. In this talk, Greg presents how Photon corrects the unequal concentration of computing power by providing an open marketplace that connects companies with slack compute capacity with users who need it; and various tools needed to configure, deploy, monitor, and manage workloads at the edge.

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Serverless DevOps. Wat?
David Wells, Software Engineer @ Serverless

Despite the hype, "serverless" is not a magical unicorn that implies then end of operations. Quite the opposite! Devops is still a critical piece of any architecture and going serverless only shifts some of the burden onto the provider.

In this talk, David will walk you through how traditional devOps fits into the serverless landscape, what serverless CI + CD flows look like, and how serverless compute layers like AWS Lambda can help automate different aspects of traditional operations.