Why serverless will revolutionize your software process
summary
Builds a working serverless petition site in an hour using AWS Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3 and CloudFront; it survives accidental real traffic spikes (peaking around 1,000,000 votes per hour) after initial load tests of ~1,200 req/min, proving automatic scaling and minimal ops. Shows an IoT button demo wired to Lambda and a front end, reports typical apps cut 50–70% of code, and cites a 1M-user system running 287 functions for <$10k/month.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction and speaker welcome
- 1:44Hello World as a web app
- 4:10Serverless hello world demo
- 5:58Classic web app stack complexity
- 7:47Serverless web app architecture
- 9:12Building a serverless petition site
- 12:24Gathering requirements in modern IT
- 15:55Lambda as compute glue
- 20:31Best fit applications for serverless
- 22:38Serverless best practices
- 29:00Why serverless is revolutionary
- 34:33Summary and Q&A
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