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Serverless Basics
You've probably heard the term "serverless" thrown around- but what does it mean? You may have even heard the terms "lambda", "function as a service", or "cloud function". What are these, and why are they just the beginning? Should you get in on this way of thinking? Is it complicated? Do you have to change a lot of things? The answer, of course, is "yes, no, or maybe"- but we are going to talk through the main ideas and how they may or may not be relevant for your application. Spoiler: the big boys are using this stuff, and you can too.

(And...for those who already have some serverless experience, we might get Frank to mention doing
React/GraphQL & Flask on top of DynamoDB in serverless.)

BIO:
Frank is a geek turned lawyer turned recovering lawyer, and is now a corporate minion doing DevOps and architecture work. He's been running Linux since 1996 (Slackware 3.0.3 copied on many floppies, since he didn't yet own a CD-ROM drive in his own machine), and been a professional systems administrator since about 2001. Through college, grad school, and law school, and while practicing law, Frank made a habit of leveraging technology to manage clubs he participated in, consult on various interesting projects, and even use heavy analytics software to produce legal paperwork. Frank grew up in St. Charles and has recently repatriated there from west County.
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Organizer: St. Louis UNIX Users Group, Inc. ~ STL technical events
The Saint Louis MO, STL Linux Users Group (STLLUG) meets monthly to talk about Linux. This GNU/Linux Users Group usually holds its meetings on the third Thursday of every month. Meetings are free and open to everyone.

We start gathering around 6:00 PM. At 6:45 PM we start with introductions, announcements, current events of interest, and a general CALL FOR HELP segment. Then we will go into the presentation of our main topic, sometime around or after 7:00 PM.