Serverless - Cloud Functions and the Future of Software Architecture

Explore the fundamental shift towards serverless cloud architectures in this 58-minute conference talk. Discover how function-execution-as-a-service technologies like AWS Lambda and Azure Functions are enabling developers to build entirely serverless platforms at scale. Learn about the replacement of traditional back-end servers with cloud functions acting as discrete single-purpose services, and how these stateless functions perform protected actions, execute business logic, and orchestrate interactions with various cloud services. Gain insights from a real-world case study of a completely serverless online platform connecting 50,000+ users in real-time, built using AWS Lambda, Firebase, and numerous 3rd party cloud services. Understand the concepts and principles of serverless architectures through practical examples and learn how to construct such systems. Evaluate the benefits and limitations of serverless approaches, and receive guidance on when to choose serverless over traditional architectures. Delve into technologies such as AWS Lambda, Firebase, Auth0, Cloud Search, Elastic Transcoder, S3, CloudFront CDN, and JavaScript, with patterns and architectures applicable to both AWS Lambda and Azure Functions.