Serverless development with AWS Lambda Workshop

Serverless platforms significantly reduce the cost of running high-performance web sites and API services in the cloud, but with a major impact on architecture, these services also require teams to re-think how to approach sessions, storage, authorization and testing.

Join Gojko Adzic, a key contributor to Claudia.js (a popular open-source deployment tool for AWS Lambda) in this a practical workshop for developers and architects that want to take advantage of the latest trends in cloud computing: serverless apps and cloud functions.

Target Audience

This is an intermediate workshop for developers and architects migrating from on-premise applications to the cloud or investigating the migration from self-managed applications (virtual machines in the cloud) or Platform-as-a-Service (Heroku, Google App Engine) applications to AWS Lambda and cloud functions.
Previous knowledge with cloud functions is not required, but you will need basic knowledge of JavaScript to follow the exercises.

Program

Through hands-on exercises and teamwork, you’ll learn about using AWS Lambda and API Gateway to create responsive event-driven micro-services, auto-scaling web APIs, and high-performance web sites.
By the end of the workshop, you will create a useful real-world serverless application, exploring the typical architectural patterns.

Agenda

Day 1 – Getting started with Lambda and performing basic tasks

Introduction to AWS Lambda and API Gateway
Logging, monitoring and analytics in a serverless world
Connecting Lambda functions to storage (S3)
Invoking Lambda functions from Web APIs
Securing Lambda functions.

Day 2 – Architecting serverless applications

Designing applications for share-nothing architectures
How to achieve user sessions and still work at scale
Key things to consider when talking to third-party APIs
Authentication and authorization with serverless applications
How to design testable Lambda functions
How to set up your workflow for teamwork and versioning.

What will you learn in this course?

Use AWS Lambda and API Gateway
Perform file conversion, image serving, connecting to third-party APIs and managing sessions with serverless architectures
Design scalable, high-performance web sites with single-page apps backed by cloud APIs
Get the most out of AWS integrations (AWS Cognito and AWS IoT Gateway)
Identify how serverless architecture impacts testing, monitoring and deployments
Run A/B tests easily and operate multiple versions of your system cheaply by learning best practice
Start converting monolithic applications to cloud functions
Use Amazon Serverless Application Model (SAM) and Claudia.js to deploy Lambda functions.

Expect to get your hands dirty

This is a hands-on workshop from the very start, and you will spend most of the time actually building a scalable serverless application. By the end of the workshop, you will have a running application that that demonstrates most of the key benefits and a good approach to common tasks.

F.A.Q.

Tools & Laptop: Should I take my laptop with me?
Yes.

Entry requirements: Is there anything I need to do before the workshop?Please set up the environment on your machine according to these instructions
https://github.com/gojko/serverless-workshop-setup/blob/master/README.md.

A working knowledge of JavaScript is encouraged as coding examples will be in JavaScript/Node.js to keep things simple and make it easy for everyone to follow regardless of their primary platform.
You should be comfortable writing simple functions and flows.

Teaching language: What language will this workshop be in?
This course will be taught in English.

Gojko Adzic

Gojko Adzic is a partner at Neuri Consulting LLP. He is the winner of the 2016 European Software Testing Outstanding Achievement Award, and the 2011 Most Influential Agile Testing Professional Award.
Author of: Impact Mapping, Fifty Quick Ideas To Improve Your User Stories, Humans vs Computers.

Gojko’s book Specification by Example won the Jolt Award for the best book of 2012, and his blog won the UK Agile Award for the best online publication in 2010.

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About the workshop

Language: The workshop will be held in English.
Time: from 9.30 am to 5.30 pm each day.
Venue: Pirelli Institute, Viale Fulvio Testi, 223, 20162, Milan (find out how to get to the Pirelli Institute here).
Laptop: Yes, see above for further instructions.
Dress code: Informal.
Included in the price: Two coffee breaks and lunch with the trainer and the other attendees are also included in this ticket… because networking matters :-)

How to get to Milan?

You can get to Milan City Centre by flying in to one of these three airports: Linate, Malpensa, and Bergamo Orio al Serio. Not bad, isn’t it? :-)

Check our Venue & Location Info Page and get it sorted! With plenty of handy information on accommodation, travel options, where to find the training venue, and much more!

Not enough? Drop us a line at [email protected].

N.B.

The workshop is subject to the confirmation of a minimum number of registered attendees. We’ll be sending a confirmation email to all registered attendees no later than one month prior to the workshop start date.

Questions? Drop us a line at [email protected].

Learn more

Is Serverless the future of Cloud Computing? (Luciano Mammino interviews Gojko Adzic)

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