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The third virtual Bash! will run on Friday 26th June over lunchtime. Our theme on this occasion will be the ever popular area of Serverless Computing.

We have three great speakers, all highly experienced at applying Serverless to real world problems. Each will be offering tips and advice, from their unique perspectives, on how to make the jump into Serverless successfully. Along the way we will be addressing common objections and evaluating their validity. As ever, there will be opportunities for Q&A at each stage and a discussion at the end.

Keynote:
Chase Douglas (@txase)

Strangling With Serverless: How To Have Fun Refactoring Old Apps

New projects are cool, but did you know Serverless is great for extending or rebuilding old apps too? And you can come out a hero by cutting the AWS bill by 90%? Join us as we look at how lots of companies are Serverlessly modernizing older apps to ship faster, scale higher, and cut costs.

Matt Coulter (@NIDeveloper)
My Serverless First Journey Through CloudFormation to AWS CDK

The Serverless first mindset is the standard that I try to hold myself against with everything new I create. Do I need to custom build this? Has someone else already built a managed service? Does the ongoing cost outweigh the business impact?

The step in the Serverless journey that I feel we undersell as an industry is where we move from day one simple Serverless solutions to resilient and scalable well architected solutions. To address this I have been brought together proven patterns and tools at cdkpatterns.com

In this talk, I will:

  • Define the Serverless first mindset
  • Introduce you to the AWS CDK
  • Compare CDK development to CloudFormation YAML
  • Discuss “AWS Serverless Well Architected” White Paper and Lens
  • Show you why http://cdkpatterns.com can help

Richard Gibson (@rickityg)
Function as a Service meets "Your Server as a function"

It's simple to get started with HTTP APIs in AWS Lambda. However, exposing multiple endpoints in a Lambda function can create a lot of repetitive work. This is work that is taken for granted when using other HTTP libraries.

In this talk we will show how to build HTTP APIs for AWS Lambda using apigateway-ts. Apigateway-ts is a lightweight open source TypeScript library built at HexLabs using patterns from the paper "Your Server as a Function". The aims of the project are to reduce boilerplate within Lambda functions and build composable HTTP APIs that are easy to test.

How to join the meetup
https://youtu.be/zGNMzpqU0ig

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