Monitoring, Security, Performance: Serverless in production

UPDATE - The event will be held in a heated tent, so it will be dry and warm.

Serverless architecture and FaaS in particular present new challenges to our known best practices in the VM/Container world. In this meetup, we would like to highlight the enablers for production adoption: Monitoring, Security and Performance.

Agenda

18:00 - Mingling, French crepes and hot wine!
18:30 - Lightning Sessions
Adam Matan, Binaris: Bridging the performance gap: how to run FaaS fast
Avi Shulman, PureSec: Building secure and reliable serverless applications
Ran Ribenzaft, Epsagon: The evolution of monitoring: from monolith to serverless
19:20 - Serverless Contest presentations
19:40 - Announcing the winner who will be flying to Serverless Conference Paris
20:00 - Coffee & Goodbyes

Challenge & Prize

Sharing knowledge is the cornerstone of a vibrant community. Therefore, we're announcing the first Israeli Serverless Challenge.
In order to participate, you have to submit an open-source serverless application. It can be a serverless function(s), or other related project that exemplifies the advantages of serverless like simplicity, scaling, statelessness, or simpler ops. For details, see "Contest Guidelines" below.

We have an exceptional first prize - a full pass to Serverless Conference Paris 2018 in February 15, including a airline ticket, entrance pass and expenses!

Registration for the challenge: https://goo.gl/forms/SNRzOuf59yuVpUPt2

Contest Guidelines

First, don't be shy! If you have an idea, feel free to reach us for guidance at adam@binaris.com.

• The project must use serverless technology in a meaningful way, which demonstrates simplicity, scaling, statelessness, or simpler ops. We are vendor agnostic, so any cloud provider or startup platform are eligible.
• The project must have an OSI open source license and published in github. We want code that the community can read and use.
• We accept individual submissions only. It's OK to work as a team or a company, but we can accept only one submitter as the representative of any project.
• The submitter should be able to travel to Paris and attend the Serverless conference (https://paris.serverlessconf.io).
• The code must be deployed in a way that is reachable from the web (HTTP endpoint, Slack integration etc.)
• Our evaluation criteria are exemplification of serverless advantages, good design and practicality.
• We encourage companies and individuals to open-source existing internal projects.
• Every submitter can submit more than one project, but we will choose only one to be presented on stage.

Good Examples:

• Parallelizing an interesting job using Serverless functions
• Solving a development or CI/CD pain with Serverless tools
• Overcoming a built-in limitation of a serverless platform (cold start, 5-minute limit) in a useful way
• Demonstrating an elegant design that simplifies a common task using serverless tools
• Converting an existing tool to Serverless

Caveats / counter-examples:

• Apps that solve a very specific internal problem, whose solution is not applicable to the community
• Apps released before September 2017 and were unchanged since
• Apps that were not written by the submitter (making big changes to existing project is OK!)

Registration for the challenge:
https://goo.gl/forms/SNRzOuf59yuVpUPt2