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ExpressLess - 200 OK #134

Closed firecode9 closed 6 years ago

firecode9 commented 6 years ago

Heard about Serverless? Already know Express.js? Too afraid to use the two?

My talk will last ~20 mins and will cover the following:

About me:

I started my career over a decade ago writing code for firewalls and security systems (c/c++/java). In recent years I've been specialising in cloud engineering, microservices, aws and serverless (mostly in node.js).

Now: I'm the CTO of a young and still in stealth mode startup - sourcingbot.com

admataz commented 6 years ago

Hi Eran Thank you for your talk proposal!

I think this sounds like a great practical angle on the serverless topic - and people will really enjoy the talk.

A couple comments:

We have a slot for a speaker available this month on April 25th - would that suit you?

A couple things we need to confirm:

admataz commented 6 years ago

@lnug/organisers - please can I get a seconder here? and please add any thoughts, comments on @erankeren's proposal

jamesporter commented 6 years ago

The general topic sounds really interesting although seems like it would be very ambitious to try to cover all those topics.

I'm not a fan of tech stack overview talks as they pretty much always end up not giving enough content on any one of the topics to really engage with for those in the area. For those not in the area it will just be lots of jargon.

In my opinion would be good to focus on what is unique/unusual about this approach (as still pretty novel to most node devs)... I'd suggest dropping as much stuff on express as possible (the audience will likely be very familiar with it) to focus on the more novel stuff. Also 2 & 3 would be interesting lighting talks but probably should be dropped from this as seem peripheral.

For e.g. 4. I'd really appreciate some kind of live demo, maybe you can could add a new endpoint, show it locally, deploy it etc. While it takes a lot more time showing, not telling, is way more engaging and convincing. Setting up some tagged commits or recording a screencast/demo in advance can streamline this.

Out of 5/6/7, I'd be most interested in seeing 7, given the novel context and how presumably typical approaches don't apply. My expectation would be 5 and 6 would be very hard to do in an interesting way; but perhaps if you are demoing something for 4, you could have some kind of CD happening automatically. CI/CD are awesome but part of a talk about configuring them is likely to be pretty dull.

firecode9 commented 6 years ago

Hi,

Thanks for the feedback. I think you are right, it's too long for 20-25 mins. I think I would trim down to the following topics/agenda:

  1. Overview of the old way for deploying and consuming restful api on aws. (Load balancer -> ec2 -> express app with bind/listen) ~4 mins

  2. Overview of the new way using serverless framework (Api gateway -> invoke lambda) ~4 mins

  3. offline testing + live demo (adding new endpoint, test locally, deploy, see it live) ~5 mins

  4. viewing logs from the cli (cloudwatch stream) ~ 2 mins

  5. Securing your endpoints + live demo (adding api key/token) ~ 3 mins

  6. Keeping the secrets using SSM store + live demo ~3 mins

If you approve - I will send the intro/movie trailer @admataz asked for.

Thanks

firecode9 commented 6 years ago

@admataz - the 25/04 works for me

admataz commented 6 years ago

thanks @erankeren! good stuff... You’re on for the 25th. I think the talk now has a good shape. Please can you edit the original opening comment with the intro/trailer and we can roll with this.

firecode9 commented 6 years ago

Hi @admataz, as promised:

My trailer:

Heard about Serverless? Already know Express.js? Too afraid to use the two?

**My talk will last ~20 mins and will cover the following:

Anything else needed?

Thanks

admataz commented 6 years ago

Thanks @erankeren! I'm just back in town from holiday - I'll update the website and publish the schedule tomorrow

admataz commented 6 years ago

For posterity - here's the original talk proposal (updated with the copy better for promo)

Hi, In this talk I would like to talk about how to create and deploy rest apis using AWS and serverless framework for AWS lambda.

Things I would like to cover:

  1. Scaffolding the app with:

    • Express.js
    • API Gateway
    • AWS Lambda
    • Serverless

  2. Proper logging with:

  3. Good error handling and pretty responses:

  4. How to test locally (offline testing)

  5. CI/CD integration - how to deploy serverless apps from CIRCLECI

  6. Connecting endpoints to a serverless DB (dynamo db)

  7. Securing your endpoints and keeping your secrets

About me: I started my career over a decade ago writing code for firewalls and security systems (c/c++/java). In recent years I've been specialising in cloud engineering, microservices, aws and serverless (mostly in node.js).

Now: I'm the CTO of a young and still in stealth mode startup - sourcingbot.com

admataz commented 6 years ago

Hi @erankeren - I've just emailed you - would you be able to talk on May 23rd instead?

orliesaurus commented 6 years ago

@firecode9 You're up on our youtube channel - check the video out - thanks for your time and I hope you've had a positive experience presenting at our meetup! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCxRp9zIHgY