Bits of Serverless - Main Sessions

Bits of Serverless - Main Sessions

Dec 11, 2020

Main sessions from the first day of Bits of Serverless. We explored the serverless ecosystem, dove into JAMStack architectures and scaling considerations, and shared learnings from industry experts spread over three days. Agenda:

00:00:24 - Introduction by Stephen Pinkerton of Datadog
00:04:07- Zain Raza (Frame.io) Serverless Pitfalls and Lessons Learned While Scaling During COVID-19
Zain speaks about service limits that must be taken into account when designing a serverless/distributed platform to scale.
00:20:15 - Guillermo Rauch (Vercel) Serverless Frontend Architecture with Next.js and Vercel
Guillermo shares learnings from the "iceberg" of the frontend with regard to performance monitoring.
00:49:59 - Zain and Guillermo Q&A
01:38:00 - Tim Zaitsev (Ridgeline) Building Natively on the Public Cloud
Tim shares the discoveries they've made and the challenges they've faced building natively on AWS using GraphQL and Lambda.
02:23:00 - Farrah Campbell and Danielle Heberling (Stackery) Serverless Myth Busters
Farrah and Danielle share first-hand experiences and separate the preconceptions from the misconceptions.
03:06:29 - Serverless panel: Andrew Krug, Technical Evangelist, will facilitate conversations around common use cases, the adoption curve, antipatterns, and disruptive technologies.
03:52:56 - Datadog Announcement and Closing

Full Session Details: https://www.datadoghq.com/event/serverless-talks/#talks
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