Python in Serverless Architectures
summary
Shows a working path from a Flask API to a deployed AWS-based serverless app: code packaged with the Serverless framework, deployed via SLS deploy into CloudFormation stacks, exposed by API Gateway to AWS Lambda functions. Demonstrations include an Elasticsearch recording-search backend, an Airbnb-like backend, and DynamoDB with Dynamo streams for change handlers. Notes operational tradeoffs: per-invocation pricing, 5‑minute Lambda limits, 200‑resource CloudFormation ceiling, per-function logs, cold starts for JVM languages, and testing via thin Lambdas + SLS invoke local.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Start
- 1:26Real serverless apps!
- 4:08One Constant
- 4:56A natural evolution
- 5:53I don't know
- 9:49Meet Serverless
- 10:03The Promise
- 11:01A note about vendor lock-in
- 13:20Two Scoops of Djange Serverless
- 19:40403 Hell
- 22:10Tour of AWS post-deploy
- 23:24Logs
- 24:08Resources
- 25:02What does that get us?
- 25:49Selfishly
- 30:07Service Shoutouts
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