PDX Java - July 2003

Enterprise Java Beans are 🔥

PDX Node - July 2019

Serverless is 🔥

Oreilly Serverless book

Hi, I'm Carter Rabasa 👋🏽

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CascadiaJS 2019

2019.cascadiajs.com

What is Serverless? 🤔

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My Developer Journey

  • 2017 - 2019: Lone Developer, Fizbuz
  • 2015 - 2017: Product Manager, Dev Tools @ Twilio
  • 2012 - 2015: Developer Evangelist, Twilio
  • 1999 - 2012: Web Developer

1999

Sun Ultra Enterprise 450 server

Sun Ultra Enterprise 450

Text "1" for Tom Brady

Patriots Rams Super Bowl

✅ Managing Hardware
✅ Managing OS
✅ Managing Web Server / DB
✅ Writing Code

2006

Amazon AWS EC2 logo

Amazon AWS EC2

The Kickball League

DCKickball

❌ Managing Hardware
✅ Managing OS
✅ Managing Web Server / DB
✅ Writing Code

2012

Heroku

Webhooks EVERYWHERE

Twilio webhooks

❌ Managing Hardware
❌ Managing OS
✅ Managing Web Server / DB
✅ Writing Code

So... What is Serverless?? 🤨

Twimlets

Twimlets web form

TwiML Bins

TwiML Bins

Twilio Functions

Twilio Functions code editor

Twilio Studio

Twilio Studio editor

❌ Managing Hardware
❌ Managing OS
❌ Managing Web Server / DB
✅ Writing (Less) Code

Dude... WTF is Serverless?!? 🤬

It's Marketing

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Serverless at Twilio

  • Easy event handling
  • Security by default
  • Scale effortlessly
  • Prevent mis-configurations
  • Glue for orchestration

Serverless is...

📩 Event and API Driven Design
🤏 Smaller Code / Less Code
😅 Less Surface Area for Mistakes

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Carter !== Brian

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Fizbuz v1

  • REST & GraphQL APIs
  • DynamoDB
  • React.js SPA
  • Auth0

Serverless is...

More People 👩🏽‍🔧 Building Better Software ✨

Thank You! 🙏🏽

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