Serverless on AWS Immersion Day
A safeINIT-hosted AWS Immersion Day on building serverless applications: Lambda fundamentals, function configuration, monitoring, and the broader AWS serverless surface beyond compute.
About this talk
Building production serverless on AWS, end to end
An AWS Immersion Day on serverless: what it is, why the operational model matters, and how the AWS serverless surface fits together beyond Lambda. The session walks through Lambda fundamentals (anatomy, configuration, monitoring) and then opens up to the rest of the serverless stack: Aurora Serverless and DynamoDB at the data layer, EventBridge / SQS / SNS / API Gateway for integration, Kinesis and MSK for streaming.
The framing is operational: where serverless reduces ops responsibility, where it shifts ops responsibility, and how to think about Lambda's resource and permission model when designing a real workload.
Key takeaways
A working framework for evaluating serverless on AWS for your own workloads.
Lambda fundamentals
- Anatomy of a function: handler, event, context
- Configuration: power rating, timeout, network access
- Permissions: execution role vs function policy
- Profiling with AWS Lambda Power Tuning
The serverless surface beyond compute
- Data stores: S3, Aurora Serverless, DynamoDB
- Integration: EventBridge, API Gateway, SQS, SNS
- Streaming: Kinesis, MSK
- AWS operational responsibility model across services
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If something here lined up with what you're building, the next step is a working call with the team that delivered it.