Developing and Deploying Serverless Architecture with Python

This month, Amir will be giving a talk on going serverless with Python.

The intent is to make this meetup as interactive as possible. To participate, you do not need an AWS account, but if you do have one, you'll be able to deploy what we build locally and consume it publicly (at your own cost :))

Topics we will cover:

1. Discuss what "serverless" is:
   • concepts, reason for hype, pros/cons, when to use (and when not)
2. Implement a Python RESTful endpoint
   • demonstrate local dev environment
   • deploy to AWS (Lambda)
3. (time permitting) Extend application to be full stack
   • build and deploy a frontend app (s3/cloudfront) that consumes our python lambda
   • integrate with DynamoDB (locally in offline mode and deploy to production)
   • backend/S3 integration (file persistence)

A github repo will be made available soon.
If you would like to get a head start you will need to globally install the following:

1. Python 3.6.x
2. Node (LTS -- 10.x) (required for serverless framework)
   https://nodejs.org/en/download/
3. (Optional) Python/Node dev friendly environment:

• Visual Studio Code
  • https://code.visualstudio.com/
  • plugin required: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-python.python
  • PyCharm
  • https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm