GOTO EDA Day London 2024
2024-05-14
London, United Kingdom
who it's for
cloud architects, serverless engineers, backend engineers, platform engineers, devops engineers, data engineers, engineering managers
topics
event-driven architecture complexity; serverless compute patterns; DynamoDB Streams and change events; EventBridge and Kafka integration; idempotency tokens and deduplication; distributed tracing with OpenTelemetry; KEDA horizontal autoscaling from queue depth; Karpenter node bin-packing and provisioning; Lambda versus ECS on Fargate tradeoffs; RAG with vector databases and AWS Bedrock; Step Functions orchestration for long workflows; AppSync + EventBridge + DynamoDB Streams subscriptions
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Future of EDA Panel | Anahit Pogosova, Emily Shea, Gillian Armstrong, Alex DeBrie, Julian Wood, Eric Johnson, Michael Gasch | 43m |
Panel argues EDA drives faster, decoupled delivery but surfaces concrete failure modes: wrong service boundaries and chatty back-and-forth cause fragility, and… | ||
| Complexity is the Gotcha of Event-driven Architecture | David Boyne | 44m |
Event-driven systems deliver agility but inherit rapid, often-hidden complexity as services, brokers and channels scale; expect coupling, unclear domains and… | ||
| Building Next-Generation Applications with EDA | Eric Johnson | 49m |
A serverless video pipeline is built and runs in production: S3 triggers EventBridge rules, Step Functions orchestrate validation and routing, Lambda handles… | ||
| How to Seamlessly Plug Into AWS's Open Ecosystem as a 3rd Party Tool | Filip Pyrek | 27m |
Built an early-stage product Buttonize.io over three years that ultimately fails (90–99% startup attrition), but the engineering work proves reusable: a CDK L3… | ||
| Observability in an Asynchronous World | James Eastham | 46m |
Claims that distributed tracing is the highest-value observability tool for event-driven systems and shows a working plant-based pizza demo that reproduces… | ||
| Patterns for Building Event-driven Web & Mobile App Backends | Josh Kahn | 47m |
Shows concrete, deployable patterns that replace polling with async subscriptions using AppSync + EventBridge + DynamoDB Streams, API Gateway WebSockets, and… | ||
| Outsmarting the Genie: Smart Architecture Decisions for GenAI Apps | Gillian Armstrong | 47m |
Practical guide to architecting GenAI chatbots on AWS with concrete patterns: static site on S3/CloudFront + Cognito, API Gateway → Lambda, and model access… | ||
| The Art of Embracing Failures with Serverless Architectures | Anahit Pogosova | 43m |
A serverless pipeline using Amazon Kinesis and AWS Lambda ingests over half a terabyte per day but loses data when SDK defaults and service limits collide… | ||
| DynamoDB in an EDA World | Alex DeBrie | 37m |
DynamoDB solves the producer dual-write problem by turning writes into change events via DynamoDB Streams (Lambda reads are free), avoiding transactional… | ||
| Serverless Compute at the Heart of Your EDA | Julian Wood | 40m |
Compares Lambda and ECS on Fargate with concrete limits and demos: Lambda scales to 10,000 concurrent invocations within minutes, supports event source… | ||
| Developing Highly Scalable Image Storage Solution with AWS Serverless | Vadym Kazulkin | 50m |
E-commerce image storage moves from ALB/EC2/EBS/EFS to a serverless stack using API Gateway, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS, EventBridge and Kinesis Data… | ||
| Scaling EDA Workloads with Kubernetes, KEDA & Karpenter | Natasha Wright | 38m |
Explains a concrete pipeline that uses EKS + KEDA to scale pods from zero based on queue depth (SQS/Kinesis) and Karpenter to add right‑sized EC2 capacity… | ||
| Scaling for Global Growth with Modern Cloud | David Anderson | 50m |
Claims a platform-first move speeds global growth by combining serverless-first patterns with domain-driven, event-driven design. Uses AWS Lambda, Step… | ||
| Evolving Serverless Architectures | Emily Shea | 30m |
Shows how to replace bespoke Lambda glue with managed services: use EventBridge Pipes and DynamoDB streams to remove event-publish code, integrate Step… | ||
| EDA Panel | R. Sethi, S. Brisals, L. Mezzalira, M. Gasch, J. Beswick, E. Johnson | 40m |
Panel reports enterprises using EventBridge as an EventBridge routing mesh to connect third‑party APIs, legacy mainframes and microservices, one migration… | ||
| Shifting Gears: From Events to Event-Driven | Ryan Cormack | 46m |
Company shifts from fire-and-forget events to a true event-driven platform using DynamoDB streams, EventBridge and an outbox pattern with Lambda, SQS and… | ||
| Scaling for Global Growth with Modern Cloud | David Anderson | 48m |
Globalization Partners builds a platform that hires legally in 187 countries using a serverless stack centered on EventBridge, Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB… | ||
| Sh... Fail Happens: Fail-aware Events Processing on AWS | Marcin Sodkiewicz | 40m |
Covers concrete failure modes on AWS: SQS and Kinesis consumers, Lambda Event Source Mapping, and practical fixes like using dead-letter queues with 14-day SQS… | ||
| How to Make Smart Architecture Decisions when Building Gen AI Apps | Gillian Armstrong | 48m |
A practical recipe for building GenAI apps that uses Amazon Bedrock, serverless glue (S3/CloudFront, Cognito, API Gateway, Lambda, Step Functions) and a vector… | ||
| How Event Driven Architectures Go Wrong & How to Fix Them | Matthew Meckes | 30m |
Common failures are concrete and fixable: teams ship YOLO events that only carry IDs and force hundreds of consumers to call back, EventBridge delivers… | ||
| Serverless Compute at the Heart of Your EDA | Julian Wood | 52m |
Claims that Lambda now scales to 10,000 sustained requests in ~90 seconds per function and that EventBridge handles ~2 trillion events/month. Demo wires S3 ->… | ||
| Optimizing Amazon EventBridge Pipes with Apache Kafka | Daniele Frasca, Roman Boiko | 37m |
Confluent Kafka connects to AWS using EventBridge Pipes to route, filter and enrich Kafka records and keep consumer logic serverless; large records get… | ||
| Patterns for Building Event-driven Web & Mobile App Backends | Josh Kahn | 43m |
Three interaction types are defined for client-server UX: real-time events, long-running processes (over 30 seconds) and push notifications. Concrete patterns… | ||
| Harnessing EDA & Workflows to Build Real World GenAI Apps | Uma Ramadoss, Veda Raman | 43m |
An event‑driven review response service is built using Amazon EventBridge and AWS Step Functions to orchestrate toxicity checks with Amazon Comprehend… | ||
| Adopting Cloud Native EDAs - The Serverless Staircase | Ben Ellerby | 22m |
A practical roadmap called Serverless Staircase lays out five steps: Vision (board-backed North Star and KPIs), Topology (team and architectural split, event… | ||
| Operating EDA with Quality in Mind | Sheen Brisals, Sarah Hamilton | 46m |
Argues that end‑to‑end CI tests are often too slow and brittle for evented systems, so teams deploy real AWS EventBridge and SQS test hooks, invoke APIs or… | ||
| Complexity is the Gotcha of Event-driven Architecture | David Boyne | 47m |
Argument: event-driven systems deliver big agility gains but complexity quickly erodes value unless actively managed. Specific guardrails: behavior-first event… | ||
| Scaling EDA Workloads with Kubernetes, KEDA & Karpenter | Natasha Wright | 46m |
Claims that combining KEDA and Karpenter lets Kubernetes react to event volume (not CPU) to survive ticket-sale spikes: example numbers cited — 3.5 million… | ||
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