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19 October 2023
14:00 - 17:00
Serverlesspresso Workshop
Julian Wood - Build an event-driven application from the ground up

In this workshop, discover how to build a complete coffee-ordering serverless web application. Learn about event-driven architectures and how to use services such as AWS Step Functions and Amazon EventBridge and more. This workshop shows how to combine workflows with events to create powerful architectures that can support production workloads. By the end, you'll have built a scalable serverless web application that allows your users to order coffee, and allows baristas to keep track of and fulfil orders.

Location: Workshop17, V&A Waterfront

In this workshop, discover how to build a complete coffee-ordering serverless web application. Learn about event-driven architectures and how to use services such as AWS Step Functions and Amazon EventBridge and more. This workshop shows how to combine workflows with events to create powerful architectures that can support production workloads. By the end, you'll have built a scalable serverless web application that allows your users to order coffee, and allows baristas to keep track of and fulfil orders.

Location: Workshop17, V&A Waterfront
20 October 2023
08:30
Doors Open
09:15
Welcome Remarks
09:30
Serverless Evolution 2023
It seems that everything is serverless, or at least wants to be! So, what is “serverless” in 2023, what's the reality, what's the fantasy? Find out the evolution of serverless technologies and understand how successful organisations take advantage of what serverless has to offer.
10:20
Moving a legacy service from AWS EC2 to Lambda
A case study of moving a legacy EC2 service to Lambda, with the hope of achieving both performance improvements and cost reductions. A walk-through of the challenges encountered, and final decision process and outcomes.
10:50
Break
11:20
Setting yourself up for a successful cloud career in a very competitive global market
Democratization of technologies has provided many opportunities which have meant that engineers are no longer restricted by geography in terms of access to career opportunities. This has been an incredible win for many in the tech industry. This however has presented engineers with an interesting challenge as democratization means playing in the global market. In this session, Veliswa talks about how engineers who are looking to be successful in the cloud computing space can best prepare for this career, and how they can set themselves apart and thus be better positioned for career opportunities in this competitive market.
12:00
Introduction to Serverless IoT with some Azure Magic
Imagine a world where IoT devices communicate effortlessly with the cloud, where events trigger instantaneous actions. This session provides an Introduction to Azure's trio in the world of IoT. The session covers Azure IoT Hub for device management, Azure Event Grid for real-time event orchestration, and Azure Functions for serverless computing. Whether you're a developer or an enthusiast, this introductory lightning session aims to inspire and ignite curiosity about the endless possibilities of Serverless IoT with Azure.
13:00
Lunch
14:00
Serverless Empowering the next Generation
Serverless platforms are a force multiplier for developers, allowing small teams to ship products and features faster than ever before. For South Africa, Serverless platforms can empower South African companies to reach a global audience at the fraction of the cost and complexity of legacy platforms. Speaking from the experience of launching multiple startups with small teams Ant will share a blueprint to going global quickly.
14:45
Migrating from Serverless Framework to CDK
Have you ever experienced the pain of trying to mock your event driven infrastructure locally? That might be due the hidden benefits of using the CDK on AWS not making it into your toolchain. Tag along with me to explore how monorepos enable serverless event driven architectures for modern teams.
15:15
Building Automated Quality Gates into your CI pipelines
How do you know when your code is ready for production? At what point in time can you trust your automated tests enough to deploy into production? In this talk, we will look at the ideal pipeline structure and showcase ways to validate the quality of your software while ensuring rapid deployment.
15:45
Break
16:00
Building a Viral Open Source AI Personal Assistant: A Journey from Concept to Reality
This talk is about how we built Quivr - the open-source virtual brain. In just over 2 months we are at 18k stars and 10k active users. This is a story of the crazy highs, much-broken production and how we created a community behind this project.
16:30
Walking back down the Serverless Staircase - a Sociotechnical Journey
As more organisations adopt the benefits of a Serverless-First approach the appetite to follow has grown. Adopting Serverless within large scale organisations is not a simple task, but it's not the technology that's slowing things down, it's the organisational challenge. In this talk I walk back on the journey I've taken several enterprises on in their adoption of Servleres. Showing the challenges, the wins and the losses, and overall a shared socio-technical framework to set your journey up for success, “The Serverless Staircase”
17:00
Serverless Revolution 2024 and Beyond
Serverless has revolutionized the way organizations build, deploy, and manage cloud applications, but has been slow to adopt due to shifting responsibilities, complex learning curves, and subpar developer experiences. So what's the next revolution that will allow everyone to harness the full power of serverless? Find out how AI, self-provisioning runtimes, and a new generation of platforms will finally deliver serverless the way it was meant to be.
17:40
Closing Remarks
18:00
Networking & Drinks
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