DevOps in AWS Radio: Serverless (Episode 8)

In this episode, Paul Duvall and Brian Jakovich cover recent DevOps in AWS news and speak with Mike Roberts and John Chapin from Symphonia about Serverless architectures, DevOps, and AWS.

Here are the show notes:

DevOps in AWS News

• You can now provision AWS Web Application Firewall on Application Load Balancer resources using AWS CloudFormation
• Agency Panel Discussion about DevOps and Containers – Discussion with leaders from USCIS, JIDO and GSA to talk about lessons learned in taking containers to production
• AWS Security Primer from Cloudonaut
• AWS CodeBuild curated Docker images
• Making Modular CloudFormation with Includes
• Whitepaper: Practicing Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery on AWS
• Building a Development Workflow for Serverless Applications – March 2017 AWS Online Tech Talks
• AWS CodeDeploy in GovCloud
• HIPAA Compliance: Auditing in the AWS Cloud

Episode Topics

1. Pros and Cons of Serverless architectures
2. Symphonia’s Serverless speciality
3. How is DevOps and Continuous Delivery fit into Serverless
4. Continuous Experimentation and Serverless architectures
5. Types of applications or services are most suitable or not suitable for Serverless
6. O’Reilly report: “What is Serverless?”
7. Serverless architectures resources and people in the space
8. Vendor lockin

Additional Resources

• Mike Roberts Twitter; John Chapin Twitter
• Symphonia’s Twitter
• Symphonia’s Blog
• A Cloud Guru
• An introduction to serverless – Mike Roberts (Symphonia)
• Serverless Framework
• Serverless Forum slack sign-up
• ServerlessConf

About DevOps in AWS Radio

On DevOps in AWS Radio, we cover topics around applying DevOps principles and practices such as Continuous Delivery in the Amazon Web Services cloud. This is what we do at Stelligent for our customers. We’ll bring listeners into our roundtables and speak with engineers who’ve recently published on our blog and we’ll also be reaching out to the wider DevOps in AWS community to get their thoughts and insights.
The overall vision of this podcast is to describe how listeners can create a one-click (or “no click”) implementation of their software systems and infrastructure in the Amazon Web Services cloud so that teams can deliver software to users whenever there’s a business need to do so. The podcast will delve into the cultural, process, tooling, and organizational changes that can make this possible including:

• Automation of
  • Networks (e.g. VPC)
  • Compute (EC2, Containers, Serverless, etc.)
  • Storage (e.g. S3, EBS, etc.)
  • Database and Data (RDS, DynamoDB, etc.)
• Organizational and Team Structures and Practices
• Team and Organization Communication and Collaboration
• Cultural Indicators
• Version control systems and processes
• Deployment Pipelines
  • Orchestration of software delivery workflows
  • Execution of these workflows
• Application/service Architectures – e.g. Microservices
• Automation of Build and deployment processes
• Automation of testing and other verification approaches, tools and systems
• Automation of security practices and approaches
• Continuous Feedback systems
• Many other Topics…

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