AWS - SERVERLESS - Developing Event Driven Serverless Systems at Scale.

8th MAY - TUESDAY NIGHT - THE BUTTON FACTORY @ 5.30pm

Supported by METAL MAN Beer

Admission: FREE

5.30pm - EVENT START

THEME: SERVERLESS - Developing Event-Driven Serverless Systems at Scale.

This AWS Community event focuses on the technical challenges of developing event-driven serverless systems at scale.

Joining us will be some of the world's leading developers and innovators from the world of Serverless, who will share with us their wisdom, techniques and their expert insights into building high performance serverless cloud applications.

If you are a developer/architect working with Serverless, don't let this meetup be the one you missed!!!

CONTRIBUTORS

• Ronan Guilfoyle, AWS Solutions Architect
• Adrian Trenaman, SVP Engineering @HBC, Gilt & Committer Apache Karaf
• Heitor Lessa, Specialist Solutions Architect, Serverless and Developer Technologies EMEA
• Paul Johnston, AWS Senior Developer Advocate – Serverless
• Paul Maddox, AWS Solutions Architect

Start 6pm - WELCOME

TALKS x 3

6.15pm - 'What's New @ AWS', Ronan Guilfoyle.

The latest AWS releases, relating to Serverless and AWS Lambda.

Ronan keeps the community up to date with the most significant of recent AWS releases/announcements, such as....

• AWS Serverless Application Repository Now Generally Available
• AWS Blockchain Templates for Ethereum and Hyperledger Fabric
• AWS Cloud9 Supports Local Debugging of AWS Lambda Functions in Python
• Amazon API Gateway Supports Cross-Account AWS Lambda Authorizers and Integrations
• AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) Implementation is Now Open-source & supports additional Amazon API Gateway Features
• Amazon Athena releases an updated JDBC driver with support for Array data types

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6.45pm - Lambda Architectures: a Snapshot, a Stream, & a Bunch of Deltas, Adrian Trenaman.

Adrian is SVP Engineering of HBC Digital, a division of the Gilt Groupe and leads engineering and infrastructure teams in New York and Dublin.

One of the AWS Community's most popular contributors, Adrian is recognised as one of the leading experts in Serverless architecture design & deployment.

"We all got so excited about breaking apart our monoliths and liberating our microservices. At HBC Tech, our work on luxury e-commerce experiences across gilt.com, saks.com, lordandtaylor.com, thebay.com and saksoff5th.com shows us that unconstrained, organic growth of microservice architectures can lead to a system with high numbers of inter-service dependencies (some of them hidden!), and deep call stacks. We asked ourselves the question: “how can we architect, build and run our services resiliently and at scale so that they can respond to requests without any immediate downstream dependencies?” Our approach is to leverage event-sourced architectures that allow core services to reliably share their information with other services asynchronously. At the heart of each solution is the snapshot, the stream, and a bunch of deltas.
In this talk I’ll give examples of these architectures in practice in our product, pricing, inventory and search services, the technology choices that have stuck: AWS Kinesis, AWS S3, AWS Lambda, Elasticache, and Calatrava. I’ll discuss how we’re making our way towards adopting Kafka as our backbone streaming implementation. And, I’ll show how we’ve begun to apply the techniques not just internally but also with external third-party vendors to keep our runtime dependencies low."

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7.15pm - 7.35pm

BREAK / FOOD / BEER / NETWORKING

• Special thanks to MetalMan for sponsoring the Beer this evening.
• Thanks also to KC Peaches, our local supplier of fresh gourmet sandwiches.

SERVERLESS CLINIC

If you have questions about Serverless and would like to discuss them directly with one of the speakers OR with an AWS specialist, then now is your chance. Grab your sandwich and your beer and make a beeline for the stage area where you'll find a wealth of support by industry veterans. Ask them nicely for help.....and bask in the warm glow of their knowledge!

PRIZE DRAW

The break is also the time to enter the prize draw. We'll have some fun prizes to give away at the end of the evening - so no sneaking off early before the end.

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TALKS - CONTINUED...

19.35 - Heitor Lessa, Specialist Solutions Architect, Serverless and Developer Technologies EMEA

Heitor is currently working across all industries focusing on Serverless and Developer technologies within the AWS Cloud ecosystem.

TALK Details to follow over the coming days.

20.10 - Q&A / PANEL DISCUSSION

20.25 - PRIZE DRAW - ENDS

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