Thinking Serverless: From User Request to Serverless Solution

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Builds working serverless features end to end: a CRUD review form (API Gateway → Lambda → DynamoDB), language translation via DynamoDB Streams + Translate, image uploads using presigned URL to S3, sentiment alerts with Comprehend and SNS/SES, and a restaurant reservations system that becomes real time by publishing EventBridge events to IoT Core websockets. Functions stay tiny (20–50 lines), SAM templates automate deployment, and outbound webhooks use API destinations with 24h retry and throttling so integrations survive outages.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:37Agenda
3. 1:17Where we have come from - servers
4. 3:24Where to start with serverless
5. 10:04Examples
6. 10:34Example: Form upload
7. 17:25Example: Restaurant reservations app
8. 25:20AWS SAM (Serverless Application Model)
9. 26:12Example: AWS SAM template
10. 27:14Wrap-up
11. 29:54Outro

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