Microservices Without Servers
summary
Claim: ditch VM maintenance and run microservices on serverless platforms. Demonstration uses Apache OpenWhisk (hosted on Bluemix), deploying Node.js actions that call geocoding and weather APIs, then composing them with sequences and an API Gateway to produce a working weather bot for Slack that posts forecasts. Platforms support Node, Java, Python, Swift or custom Docker runtimes. Example customer drops cloud bill by 80% cost reduction after moving bursty log processing to serverless. The demo works end-to-end.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction to serverless
- 6:26Why servers hurt productivity
- 10:55What are serverless platforms
- 17:33Building a weather bot demo
- 34:40Deploying and scaling the bot
- 35:42Call to action for serverless
- 37:25Q&A on billing and state
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