Serverless in production, an experience report

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Company migrates a monolith to an event-driven, service-oriented system centered on AWS Lambda and ships concrete wins: 170 Lambdas in production, running at about 5% of EC2 cost and boosting releases from 4–6/month to ~100 releases/month. Built realtime search (events → Kinesis → Lambda → CloudSearch), analytics (Kinesis → Lambda → Google BigQuery), a feed pipeline (events → SNS → Lambda → Redis), hourly trending via BigQuery → DynamoDB, CI/CD with Serverless framework, centralized logging, tracing, Parameter Store for config, and a janitor Lambda to avoid the 75 GB package limit.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 21:36Levels to Testing
3. 22:22Integration Tests
4. 32:37Whether To Do Continuous Delivery or Continues Deployments
5. 33:25Logging
6. 34:38Centralized Logging
7. 37:56Correlation Ids
8. 49:01Parameter Store
9. 50:39Listening to Signals

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