Gaining familiarity with serverless programming and writing serverless web applications

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Title of the talk/workshop Gaining familiarity with serverless programming and writing serverless web applications

Abstract of the talk/workshop This talk would provide an overview of serverless programming with a focus on AWS Lambda.

We will write a web application which has CRUD abilities. We will rely on AWS Lambda for it and will not start or provision any server.

We will discuss several scenarios where serverless is a good choice and contrast it with situations where serverless isn't such a good choice.

The technologies we will discuss are:

• AWS Lambda
• Amazon API Gateway
• Chalice

Duration (including Q&A) 1:30 Hours

Level of Audience Intermediate

Agenda

We will split the workshop into three sections:

• Introduction (15 minutes)
• Code deep dive (60 minutes)
• Tooling around apis (15 minutes)

We will cover the following areas under Introduction.

• What is Serverless programming.
• Are there really no servers involved.
• What are the advantages of serverless.
• Lambda and Cloud Functions

We will cover the following areas under Code deep dive

• Writing a "Hello World" with Lambda without using any library or framework.
• Writing a Flask application which communicates with RDS
• Using AWS Chalice to manage our CRUD application
• Discussing other scenarios which can be handled with Serverless. eg: Redis events, Elasticsearch events etc.

Tooling around serverless

• serverless.com
• Zappa
• Zeit

We will have the last 10 minutes for Q&A.

Speaker Bio

• Company - Agiliq (https://www.agiliq.com/)
• Github - @akshar-raaj
• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/raajakshar

Prerequisites A familiarity with Flask and AWS.

The AWS Services this talk relies on are S3 and API Gateway. Familiarity with them would be helpful but are not mandatory.

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@akshar-raaj I updated the same info you shared here. In case you'd want to add anything to Speaker Bio please free to let me know.