Serverless Workshop: Performance and Cost Optimizations

Join us on November 21st to yet another workshop on #serverless! This time Mike Golubev, Principal Solutions Architect at AWS, will be walking us through cost and performance optimization techniques for serverless applications, and sharing best practices.

• Date / Time: November 21st at 7:00PM
• Venue: Show Room, IT Park at Makhtumkuli 1A, 1st floor

About event
The event is for developers, DevOps engineers and architects who are already familiar with basics of serverless and want to get most of it, both in performance and cost. We will start with a presentation reviewing how AWS Lambda works under the hood and discussing some key best practices to optimize it for your workloads. We will then go through a hands-on workshop where you will get familiar with tools like AWS Lambda Power Tuning and Lambda Extensions. We will also try running our functions on Arm architecture with AWS Graviton and introduce other serverless best-practices for cost and performance, such as event filtering, asynchronous workflows and queueing.

What you will learn
During this workshop you will learn some best practice technique to optimize your serverless workloads to reduce costs and improve performance. The workshop focuses on AWS Lambda however other services are used throughout including:

• Amazon SQS
• Amazon API Gateway
• Amazon DynamoDB
• AWS Step Functions
• AWS AppConfig

Required skills
A basic understand of AWS serverless services is required including AWS Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, and DynamoDB. You should also be familiar with the AWS Console, the AWS CLI, AWS IAM and CloudFormation.