Believe In Serverless

Embrace the spooky season and join Joshua Proto as he recounts several stories, some spooky, some terrifying, of serverless production workloads that didn’t go exactly as expected. Hang out for a bit and even get the chance to share your own serverless ghost tale. And for those of you with enough courage to sit through them all, maybe you’ll learn a thing or two to prevent your own spooky serverless scenario.

In today's #productionhorrorstory, we have Joseph Alioto talking about a time he was called in from vacation to go straight into a 9-day death march by himself 💀

The Serverless Gameshow is back with a British twist! It may sound irrelevant, but it’s anything but-- it’s Pointless! Sam Lock hosts this unique Serverless quiz show as contestants try to score as few points as possible by coming up with answers no one else can think of. On this episode Ryan Cormack, James Eastham, Tobias Schmidt, and Jimmy compete to be crowned the Prince of Pointless, and for a $50 donation to their charity of choice. Play along at home and don’t forget to stay hydrated. Pip pip!

It's October, which means it's time for some operational horror stories. Carlo Mencarelli has spent his entire career working in ops in some fashion and is sharing some of the more memorable events. Ever heard about the time a squirrel may have caused your flight to be delayed? Or how providing Lambda-based sandboxes to security researchers might be like opening Pandora's Box? Come and listen as Carlo shares these stories and more. You'll leave either feeling relieved that there's always a bigger fire out there or reassured that all incidents eventually come to an end. Either way, you'll have learned more about life in Operations and how to recover.

Nowadays serverless can mean many different things. Among others, it helps split bigger tasks into smaller pieces and run them in parallel, leveraging the power of distributed systems. It's also fun! And it's seemingly easy, almost magic-like! However, the real world is more nuanced than that. With all the power that distributed systems have given us, comes responsibility. In this talk, learn the most common challenges and pitfalls inherent to distributed systems and the ways to mitigate them. Delve into some real-world examples with Anahit Pogosova using two of the essential AWS serverless services: AWS Lambda and Amazon Kinesis. And most importantly, learn to embrace failures. Because as the CTO of Amazon Dr. Werner Vogels likes to say: everything fails, all the time.

Today's #productionhorrorstory is with Shala Warner where she describes a time she took the network down for her entire company 😱

In today's production horror story, we have Ima Miri talking about a time when she built a system that integrated with a 3rd party API that would regularly push breaking changes. Of course, she found out about this after the app was already in production 🙃

Dive into at how the new generative AI coding assistant can help boost your productivity as a developer today with the incredible AWS Machine Learning Hero, Cyril Bandolo!

It's Production Horror Story month! If there's one thing we all have in common, it's that we all make mistakes. But it's what we do with those mistakes that determines our success. Kicking off this video series is Patrick Bailey, telling us about the time he deleted the only production server and what he learned from his terrifying mistake. #productionhorrorstory

Episode 13 of the Believe in #Serverless Podcast is now available. Andres Moreno and ✨Danielle Heberling discuss a wide array of topics like how often do you shut down your computer, signing up for re:Invent sessions, Apache Flink and more! https://lnkd.in/gKNMaNZv https://lnkd.in/gFSTNyPX