Serverless isn't a fad, it's a real and viable architectural principle for developing and deploying microservices with very little operational overhead. Learn why and how to get started and be successful.

1. © 2016 Autodesk
Alan Williams
@alanwill alanwill
What's better than Microservices?
Serverless Microservices
Apigee/AWS Webinar

2.  Definitions
 Sample Architecture
 Demo
 Decision Making Considerations
Agenda

3. "Microservices is a software architecture style in which
complex applications are composed of small, independent
processes communicating with each other using language-
agnostic APIs."
from Wikipedia
What is a Microservice?

4.  Event based
 API
 Discreet tasks/services/processes
 Independently scalable
Microservice Attributes

5. "…serverless computing is a cloud computing code execution
model in which the cloud provider fully manages starting
and stopping virtual machines as necessary to serve
requests, and requests are billed by an abstract measure of
the resources required to satisfy the request, rather than per
virtual machine, per hour."
from Wikipedia
What is Serverless?

6.  Code focused
 No servers to manage
 No EC2
 No manual scaling or server provisioning
 No idle resources
 No SSH (or RDP)
Serverless Attributes
EC2
SSH

7. Serveless Microservice Architecture
Email sent
to user
User
talr-cla
talr-configtalr-cloudtrail
talr-accountinfo
talr-vpc
talr-notify
talr-cla-response
talr-directconnect
talr-director
talr-validator
talr-cfn-response
talr-taskstatus
POST /account
POST /directconnect
AWS Lambda function
- Application Logic
AWS SNS Topic
- Asynchronous notifications
AWS DynamoDB Table
- Datastore
Apigee
- API Proxy
AWS SES
- Outbound Email
Legend
talr-cbinfo
talr-receptionist talr-interrogator
talr-inquirer
talr-cla-request
GET /account
GET /{service}
POST /cloudtrail POST /config POST /vpc
talr-dispatch-request
talr-notify-request
DDB event

8. Server Architecture
Auto scaling Group
User
talr-cbinfo
POST /account
talr-receptionist
talr-accountinfo
Auto scaling Group
talr-cla
Auto scaling Group
talr-director
AWS Lambda function
- Application Logic
AWS DynamoDB Table
- Datastore
Apigee
- API Proxy
Legend
AWS EC2
- Compute
AWS ELB
- Load Balancing

9.  Support for Node.js
 Also Serverless
 Focused on connectors & light-weight API orchestrations
Apigee Limitations
 Limited debugging & profiling
 Not polyglot
 Not recommended for complex business logic
 Not a generic event processor
Apigee Edge Proxies

10. Demo
https://github.com/alanwill/serverless-demo

11. Technology Toolkit
Software URL Languages
AWS Lambda https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/ Python/Node.js/Java
Serverless
Framework
http://serverless.com/ Python/Node.js
Apigee a127 https://github.com/apigee-127/a127 Node.js
Swagger http://swagger.io/ JSON/YAML

12.  Supports all AWS Lambda languages
 Other public cloud providers coming soon
 Local function testing
 View function logs
 Resource dependencies via Cloudformation
 Complete service encapsulation
 Node.js based
 Never need the AWS Management Console or CLI
Serverless Framework

14. Serverless Containers
Code Deployments ✔️ ✔️
No Servers ️✔️
Persistent Workloads ✔️
Event Based
Workloads
✔️
3rd Party Applications ✔️
Considerations…

15. Application Development Evolution

17. Amazon API Gateway Apigee Edge
API proxy ✔️ ✔️
Seamless integration
with AWS services
✔️
Short Learning Curve ✔️
Oauth Provider ✔️
Request Tracing ✔️
Caching ✔️ ✔️
Rate Limiting ✔️ ✔️
Swagger Support ✔️ ✔️
Auto-scaling Features ✔️ ✔️
Serverless Friendly ✔️ ✔️
Considerations…

18.  Learn a programming language (Node.js/Python/Java)
 Check out Serverless Framework
 Start small, start simple
 Focus on value add
Keys to success

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