Episode 29: Future of Serverless: A Toy that will Evolve and Offer Flexibility

Published: Sept. 26, 2018, 6 a.m.

Are you a blogger? Engineer? Web guru? What do you do? If you ask Yan Cui that question, be prepared for several different answers. \nToday, we\u2019re talking to Yan, who is a principal engineer at DAZN. Also, he writes blog posts and is a course developer. His insightful, engaging, and understandable content resonates with various audiences. And, he\u2019s an AWS serverless hero!\nSome of the highlights of the show include:\n\nSome people get tripped up because they don\u2019t bring microservice practices they learned into the new world of serverless; face many challenges\nEducate others and share your knowledge; Yan does, as an AWS hero\nChaos Engineering Meeting Serverless: Figuring out what types of failures to practice for depends on what services you are using\nEnvironment predicated on specific behaviors may mean enumerating bad things that could happen, instead of building a resilient system that works as planned\nAPI Gateway: Confusing for users because it can do so many different things; what is the right thing to do, given a particular context, is not always clear\nNow, serverless feels like a toy, but good enough to run production workflow; future of serverless - will continue to evolve and offer more flexibility\nServerless is used to build applications; DevOps/IOT teams and enterprises are adopting serverless because it makes solutions more cost effective\n\nLinks:\n\nYan Cui on Twitter\nDAZN\nProduction-Ready Serverless\nTheburningmonk.com\nApplying Principles of Chaos Engineering to Serverless\nAWS Heroes\nre:Invent\nLambda\nAmazon S3 Service Disruption\nAPI Gateway\nBen Kehoe\nDigital Ocean