Yan's School

Lecture: What do we mean by serverless?

Lecture: When is serverless the right choice for your workload?

Lecture: The serverless-first mindset

Lecture: What about vendor lock-in?

What do you hope to get out of this workshop?

Prerequisite: Adding an IAM user

Lecture: Lambda 101

Exercise: Create Lambda functions in AWS Console

Lecture: How Lambda works under the hood

Lecture: Understanding Lambda's scaling behaviour

Lecture: Lambda EFS integration

Lecture: Lambda extensions

Lecture: Intro to Provisioned Concurrency

Lecture: When to use Provisioned Concurrency

Lecture: When to use Lambda destinations

Lecture: CloudFormation 101

Lecture: IAM 101

Lecture: Serverless Framework vs AWS SAM vs AWS CDK vs Terraform

Serverless Framework or CDK or Terraform, your choice!

Exercise: Create a serverless project

Exercise: Invoke Lambda functions locally

Lecture: Anatomy of a serverless.yml

Exercise: Deploy the serverless project

Exercise: Working with ephemeral environments

Lecture: DynamoDB 101

Lecture: API Gateway 101

Exercise: Create an API with API Gateway and Lambda

Source code: Create an API with API Gateway and Lambda

Exercise: Creating the Restaurants API

Source code: Creating the Restaurants API

Exercise: Displaying restaurants on the landing page

Source code: Displaying restaurants on the landing page

Lecture: Securing API Gateway

Exercise: Secure API Gateway with AWS_IAM

Source code: Secure API Gateway with AWS_IAM

Lecture: Cognito 101

Exercise: Create a new Cognito User Pool

Source code: Create a new Cognito User Pool

Lecture: Secure API Gateway with Cognito User Pool

Exercise: Secure API Gateway with Cognito User Pool

Source code: Secure API Gateway with Cognito User Pool

Lecture: API Gateway best practices

Lecture: API Gateway REST API vs HTTP API vs ALB

Lecture: When to use Lambda function URLs

Lecture: How to assign a static IP to a Lambda function

Lecture: When to use API Gateway service proxies

(Optional) Challenges

Live Q&A #1

Live Q&A #2

Lecture: The general strategy for testing API Gateway REST APIs

Bye bye testing pyramid, hello testing honeycomb

Lecture: Unit vs Integration vs End-to-End tests

Lecture: Hexagonal architectures the what why and when

Lecture: Use Remocal tests to make integration tests fast and reliable

Exercise: Write integration tests as remocal tests

Source code: Write integration tests as remocal tests

Lecture: Writing end-to-end tests

Exercise: Writing end-to-end tests

Source code: Writing end-to-end tests

Lecture: CI/CD

Exercise: Set up CI/CD with GitHub Actions

Lecture: Intro to SSM Parameter Store

Lecture: The problems with environment variables

Exercise: Load dynamic configurations

Source code: Load dynamic configurations

Lecture: Ephemeral (Temporary) environments explained

Exercise: Share SSM parameters with temporary environments

Source code: Share SSM parameters with temporary environments

Exercise: Share information via SSM Parameters

Source code: Exercise: Share information via SSM Parameters

Lecture: Securely handle secrets

Exercise: Securely handle secrets

Source code: Securely handle secrets

Lecture: SSM Parameter Store vs Secrets Manager

Lecture: How to handle serverful resources when using ephemeral environments

Lecture: How to load test serverless apps

Lecture: How to organize your system into repositories

Lecture: Best practices for AWS Organizations and accounts

(Optional) Challenges

How are we doing so far?

Live Q&A #3

Live Q&A #4

Lecture: Introduction to Event-Driven Architectures

Lecture: Introduction to Domain-Driven Design

Lecture: Introduction to EventBridge

Lecture: Comparing EventBridge event bus topologies

Lecture: Processing events with EventBridge and Lambda

Exercise: Processing events with EventBridge and Lambda

Source code: Processing events with EventBridge and Lambda

Lecture: How to include SNS and EventBridge in end-to-end tests

Exercise: Include SNS and EventBridge in end-to-end tests

Source code: Include SNS and EventBridge in end-to-end tests

Lecture: Dealing with failures

Exercise: Implement idempotency in event processing

Source code: Implement idempotency in event processing

Exercise: Implement error handling in event processing

Source code: Implement error handling in event processing

Exercise: Per-function IAM roles

Source code: Per-function IAM roles

Lecture: SNS vs SQS vs Kinesis vs EventBridge

Lecture: How to control Lambda concurrency

Lecture: How to structure and version your events

Lecture: Events vs Commands

Lecture: Light event vs. Rich event

Lecture: Domain vs Integration events

Lecture: Context Mapping and Anti-Corruption Layers

Lecture: Where should you implement the Anti-Corruption Layer?

Lecture: Do you need an event broker

Lecture: How to forward events to a data lake

Lecture: Introduction to event sourcing

Lecture: Introduction to CQRS

Lecture: Orchestration vs Choreography

Lecture: Introduction to AWS Step Functions

Lecture: Introduction to Amazon States Language (ASL)

Lecture: Designing an order processing workflow with Step Functions

Exercise: Implement an order processing workflow with Step Functions

Source code: Implement an order processing workflow with Step Functions

(Optional) Challenges

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Live Q&A #5

Live Q&A #6

Lecture: Log aggregation

Lecture: How to avoid CloudWatch Logs altogether

Lecture: Structured logging

Exercise: Structured logging

Source code: Structured logging

Lecture: Sample debug logs in production

Exercise: Sample debug logs in production

Source code: Sample debug logs in production

Lecture: Lambda's advanced logging controls

Lecture: Intro to AWS X-Ray

Exercise: X-Ray

Source code: X-Ray

Exercise: Analyzing and improving cold start duration

Source code: Analyzing and improving cold start duration

Lecture: X-Ray limitations

Lecture: Intro to Lumigo

Exercise: Lumigo

Source code: Lumigo

Lecture: Alerts you should have

Exercise: Powertuning Lambda functions

Lecture: Introduction to LLRT

Lecture: How to build multi-region, active-active serverless applications

Lecture: All you need to know about caching for serverless applications

Lecture: Costly mistakes to avoid

How our app might look in the real world

How did we do?

Wrap up

Live Q&A #7

Live Q&A #8