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Accelerated Serverless | AI as a Service | Platform Modernisation

Fantastic talk by our client Colum Thorne of RenaissanceRe on going ASAP - ' As Serverless As Possible' in collaboration with fourTheorem. ASAP standing for :- 'As Soon As Possible', 'As Scalable As Possible, 'As Secure As Possible' - and for the finance team, 'As Stingy As Possible' !

Colum called out the great cultural fit between fourTheorem and RenaissanceRe that facilitated and accelerated their Serverless migration journey.  

It is said that the only two certainties in life are death and taxes. The rapid change in the information technology landscape is underpinned by two other near certainties; the growth in compute power and commoditization. Understanding these forces can help us to get a handle on the future arc of technological change. In this talk, using real world examples, we will explore how commoditization is affecting the systems that we build and try to make some predictions on how it will continue to impact financial services technology.

https://fsclub.zyen.com/events/all-events/two-more-certainties-life-growth-compute-power-commoditization/

Serverless is the new way of creating software. It means moving away from servers and leaving that to the cloud vendor. Instead, you focus on features and business value and use managed cloud services to build powerful applications. Serverless allows you to do more much faster. But how can we say that mass adoption of Serverless is coming to the enterprise? What are the pitfalls? Is Serverless ready for mainstream? Having built many serverless systems on AWS, written a book on it and as creator of a major open-source serverless project, this talk talks about the reality of actual serverless systems.

Serverless is the new way of creating software. It means moving away from servers and leaving that to the cloud vendor. Instead, you focus on features and business value and use managed cloud services to build powerful applications. Serverless allows you to do more much faster.

But there are plenty of pitfalls, all of which can sour your initial experiences of putting Serverless into production.

This talk covers the highs and lows of building Node.js apps with Serverless. The open source, JavaScript-based SLIC Starter project will be presented, showing how it is used to quickly adopt best practices and get to a successful production deployment without the pain. We'll also show how TypeScript-based Infrastructure as Code is the way forward!

SLIC Starter is a complete starter project for production-grade serverless applications on AWS. SLIC Starter uses an opinionated, pragmatic approach to structuring, developing and deploying a modern, Serverless application with one simple, overarching goal:

Get your serverless application in to production fast!

Ruby on Rails provided a framework that simplified web application development. The SLIC Starter kit does the same for Serverless.

By embodying best practice for Serverless in a starter project developers can get to production fast with the confidence that they are following the right path.

MIT Licensed and business friendly. We welcome contributions and collaboration!