AWS re:Invent 2016

In this session, you'll learn what’s new and hot with AWS Lambda. Come on a tour with Dr. Tim Wagner, General Manager of AWS Lambda, to learn what we’ve been working on and what we are planning for the future. You'll get a hands-on demonstration of some our newest features which will provide you with a launching pad for some of the later sessions in the day.

Serverless architecture can eliminate the need to provision and manage servers required to process files or streaming data in real time. In this session, we will cover the fundamentals of using AWS Lambda to process data in real-time from push sources such as AWS Iot and pull sources such as Amazon DynamoDB Streams or Amazon Kinesis. We will walk through sample use cases and demonstrate how to set up some of these real-time data processing solutions. We'll also discuss best practices and do a deep dive into AWS Lambda real-time stream processing.

AWS Lambda empowers developers to build cloud-native web applications or platforms using microservices architecture. The three-tier web app has been a cornerstone architecture pattern for decades in this space. This session walks you through the process of identifying the presentation, logic, and data tiers required to build web applications with AWS Lambda at the core. By using AWS Lambda as your logic tier, you have a wide number of data storage options for your data tier. AWS offers a wide range of database services to fit your application requirements. We dive into methodologies for picking the right database technology based on your application requirements.

The value of building serverless applications on AWS applies to businesses of all sizes. For enterprises that own hundreds or thousands of applications, the cost of managing and securing servers could equal millions of dollars per year. In this session, we will discuss how building serverless applications on AWS can eliminate many of those costs and still meet enterprise requirements across a breadth of areas: including identity and access control, network security, performance, availability, deployment and operations. Also, Coca-Cola North America will give a glimpse into the tools and strategies they’ve developed in order to make their next generation of digital marketing applications completely serverless, and give a peak into the innovative ways they’re planning to use AWS Lambda in the future.

Chatbots are the new apps. Businesses of all sizes, from startups to enterprises, are looking for new ways to connect with their users through natural, conversational interfaces. Developers have started using chatbots to improve the productivity and efficiency of their operations. In this session, we show how to use AWS Lambda and other serverless offerings from AWS to build chatbots quickly and efficiently. We share examples from our recently concluded AWS Slack Hackathon with a full walkthrough of building a conversational chatbot in an easy, fast, and fun way, along with helpful tools, tips, and techniques.

Ever wished you had a list of cheat codes to unleash the full power of AWS Lambda for your production workload? Come learn how to build a robust, scalable, and highly available serverless application using AWS Lambda. In this session, we discuss hacks and tricks for maximizing your AWS Lambda performance, such as leveraging customer reuse, using the 500 MB scratch space and local cache, creating custom metrics for managing operations, aligning upstream and downstream services to scale along with Lambda, and many other workarounds and optimizations across your entire function lifecycle.

In the middle of 2015, Expedia started using AWS Lambda for serverless computing. We built boilerplate templates in Node.js, Java, and Python so development teams could build and deploy serverless applications into AWS. Currently, we have 300 AWS Lambda functions processing 40 million invocations per day.

Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda provide a new way of building applications by removing servers from the picture. But what does the removal of servers mean to tasks like deployment, monitoring, and debugging? How should you set up blue-green deployments or set alarms? Come learn all this and more, including how to use AWS services and tools like AWS CodePipeline, AWS CloudFormation, and Amazon CloudWatch to manage your serverless applications at high quality.

Vevo has undergone a complete strategic and technical reboot, driven not only by product, but also by engineering. Since November 2015, Vevo has been replacing monolithic, legacy content services with a modern, modular, microservices architecture, all while developing new features and functionality. In parallel, Vevo has built its data platform from scratch to power internal analytics as well as a unique music video consumption experience through a new personalized feed of recommendations — all in less than one year.

Join us to learn about the state of serverless computing from Dr. Tim Wagner, General Manager of AWS Lambda. Dr. Wagner discusses the latest developments from AWS Lambda and the serverless computing ecosystem. He talks about how serverless computing is becoming a core component in how companies build and run their applications and services, and he also discusses how serverless computing will continue to evolve.