Microservices Without Servers

By James Thomas

Elevator Pitch

Servers are killing your productivity. Rather than building software, you end up constantly distracted by maintaining computers. Wasn’t the “cloud” supposed to fix this? It sounded so promising until we realised it was just renting VMs in another datacenter. We couldn’t escape “servers”. Until now.

Description

Servers are killing your productivity. Rather than building better software for your users, you end up constantly distracted by maintaining computers. Wasn’t the “cloud” supposed to fix this? It sounded so promising until we realised it was just renting VMs in someone else’s datacenter. We couldn’t escape “servers”. Until now…

In this session, developers will learn how to build microservices without servers, using modern “serverless” cloud platforms. We’ll look at common challenges (and solutions) to building applications using “serverless” stacks. Exploring emerging “serverless” design patterns will give developers the knowledge to build application architectures using these new platforms.

This session is aimed at software developers experienced in building traditional backend web applications, who want to learn how to build microservices without servers.

Notes

“Serverless” platforms are exploding in popularity with developers in 2016. redmonk.com/fryan/2016/04/28/serverless-volume-compute-for-a-new-generation/

This session will give developers the practical advice on how to start building services with these new platforms, overcome common issues and architecture “serverless” stacks.