Serverless in production, an experience report

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Project migrates a monolithic backend to an event-driven stack centered on AWS Lambda, reaching 170 Lambda functions and cutting compute cost to roughly 5% of comparable EC2 spend. Deployment cadence jumps from 4–6 releases a month to 1,800 deployments/month. Implements CloudSearch-backed user search, an analytics pipeline from Kinesis → BigQuery in under 48 hours, timeline fanout via SNS + Lambda + Redis, recommendations stored in DynamoDB, and centralized secrets with SSM Parameter Store while using Serverless framework, CloudWatch/ELK logging, correlation IDs and CI scripts.

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1. 0:00Introduction and background
2. 3:51Moving to serverless architecture
3. 12:40Operational challenges with Lambda
4. 21:39Continuous delivery in serverless
5. 25:56Logging and monitoring strategies
6. 34:41Configuration management in Lambda
7. 38:07Q&A and closing remarks

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