Serverless February

It's time for the Serverless User Group to kick off again! The first meetup of the year is being hosted by Tesco Digital at their Leather Lane offices!

We have three talks for the meetup.

Contact's Serverless Journey. - Contact team at Tesco

Problems we had
What we thought Serverless would solve
Initial Problems we had adopting Serverless
Improvements we experienced straight away
Pipelines - Continuous Integration and Deployments
Increased productivity – we can on-board new features rapidly
Lessons learnt
Serverless!
Scaling issues and design considerations
Resilience, DLQ, failed queues
Infrastructure as code dilemmas
Code – using packages, typescript

Production-ready Serverless on AWS - James Allardice

Serverless technologies open up a whole new world when it comes to running production applications at businesses of all sizes. But the feeling of living too close to the bleeding edge is a real and valid concern for many people. This talk will look at ways to mitigate the risk of running Serverless applications in production on AWS with plenty of hands-on examples and a bit of live coding thrown in.

Multi-Cloud GraphQL - Ant Stanley

Live Demo creating GraphQL endpoints in various cloud providers FaaS offerings. Will explore the differences in the cloud provider platforms, and good practice for running GraphQL within a function.

Agenda

18:30 - Doors Open - Networking
19:00 - Welcome
19:05 - Contact's Serverless Journey. - Contact team at Tesco
19:35 - Production ready Serverless - James Allardice
20:05 - Break
20:35 - Multi-Cloud GraphQL - Ant Stanley
21:00 - Close

Tesco is kindly providing the venue, drinks and food. Amido & Reason are also sponsoring.