Seattle Serverless - February 2019

Doors open at 5:00pm

Speakers:

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Lessons learned from building a Serverless Data Pipeline
Adam Johnson - CEO and Co-Founder @ IOpipe

The availability of Lambda and streaming technologies such as Kinesis make it simple for anyone to build apps that scale to processing billions of API requests per month. We'll explore some lessons learned and about the pitfalls and challenges one will face on their serverless ingestion journey.

About Adam: Adam is co-founder and CEO of IOpipe, where he has spent the last two and a half years building out developer tools to make developing serverless applications more fun. Adam has been building startups for the last 10 years, and he currently lives in Seattle.

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Safe Lambda Deployments
Sean Sullivan - Principal Software Engineer @ Hudson's Bay Company

AWS Lambda and AWS CodeDeploy enable developers to safely deploy new application code to production. In this talk, we will discuss how Saks Fifth Avenue adopted 'safe deployment' practices for AWS Lambda functions. We'll examine traffic shifting, traffic hooks, YAML configuration, and the CodeDeploy API.

About Sean: Sean has worked on a variety of backoffice engineering projects, including payment processing and email generation. He is a contributor to open source projects and has contributed to Amazon's AWS SDK for Java version 2.0. He lives in Portland Oregon.