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John McKim
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Serverless Framework Contributor
Serverless Framework
https://serverless.com
What is Serverless?
Functions as a Service
Properties of FaaS Services
- Function as unit of Deployment
- Function as unit of Scale
- Fully managed Scaling
- Triggered by Events
- Pay for execution time
Serverless
FaaS + The Herd
What is Serverless?
A Serverless Architecture is an event driven system that utilises FaaS and other fully managed services for logic and persistence.
Why choose Serverless?
Benefits
- Easier Ops - (Not NoOps)
- Reduced Operational Cost
- Reduced Development Time / Cost
- Highly Scalable
- Loosely Coupled systems
Example Architecture
Serverless Garden
Who's Who in the Zoo
Providers in this space
* as a Service
- AWS, Azure, Google
- Auth0
- Algolia
- Firebase
- Netlify
- AWS Lambda
- Azure Functions
- Google Cloud Functions
- IBM Open Whisk
- Webtask
Functions as a Service
Who's Who in the Zoo
Tools in this space
Frameworks
Other Tools
- Serverless Framework
- Apex
- Claudia
- Chalice
- Sparta
- CloudFormation
- Terraform
- Ansible
Demo Time
From Zero to Serverless
- AWS - API GW, Lambda, DynamoDB
- Serverless Framework
- Yeoman generator - serverless-service