ServerlessDays Belgium Meetup #2 (ONLINE)

Welcome to ServerlessDays Belgium! Join us for our second event!

We can't host a live event right now, so this will be a virtual (online) event. You can find us at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN6-kZvXGQY0sCSpX0jH5Ow/featured

Schedule:
19:00 - Welcome to ServerlessDays
19:05 - Sheen Brisals (The LEGO Group): The Art of Serverless Microservices Communications with Amazon EventBridge
19:40 - Break / Q&A
19:45 - Nicolas Moutschen (AWS) : How to test serverless applications
20:15 - Q&A / Round-up

• Session #1
  > The Art of Serverless Microservices Communications with Amazon EventBridge - by Sheen Brisals (The LEGO Group).

The combination of cloud, serverless and microservices has taken the service implementation to a different level. Though this has accelerated the monolith to microservices transformation, it has also introduced new complexities around the service to service communication. With every new service added to the system, the order of communications complexity also increases.

Though AWS services such as SNS, SQS and others helped to some extend, they however failed to offer a flexible way to enable filtered routing of messages between microservices. This is where Amazon EventBridge makes its mark in alleviating many of these concerns.

Amazon EventBridge promotes a hub-and-spoke communication model between microservices. With its flexible and powerful message filtering capability, services can have a renewed way of performing event-driven communication between them. This talk will start by explaining EventBridge and then with the help of real use case scenarios explain how to enable message routing and filtering while working with the event bus.

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• Session #2:
  > How to test serverless applications ?! - by Nicolas Moutschen (AWS).

Testing what we build is crucial part of ensuring that our applications is behaving as expected. It allows us to catch bugs and errors before they made it into production.

To help us on that journey, we have many tools and libraries across the wide variety of programming languages that we might be using. However, testing code is not the same as testing applications, especially for serverless and microservices architectures, where our applications span multiple services, functions, APIs, databases, etc.

In this talk, we'll look at the different types of tests for serverless applications through concrete examples, and how they fit into the bigger picture of making deployment safer.

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