Using AWS Lambdas in the Real World
- 1. Using AWS Lambdas in the Real World
- 2. Hi! My name is Eliot. Are you a backend, frontend engineer, or some other cool specialization? Do you have any cloud experience? Has anyone worked with Lambdas before? 2 Before We Start
- 3. Tell you about myself Tell you about Oath Tell you what I do at Oath Explain Function as a Service Challenges at Oath Challenges others are facing 3 Goals
- 4. I’m a husband and a dad from Baltimore I’m a Principal Architect at Oath I’ve been with Ad.com, Aol, and Verizon for 11 years I’m an inventor After hours: Board Member, Advisor, Volunteer, and Mentor 4 About Me
- 5. Twitter: @eliotpearson LinkedIn: eliotpearson Email: eliot.pearson@gmail.com Github: eliotpearson Medium: @eliotpearson 5 About Me
- 7. 7 About Oath Did you know Yahoo created Hadoop in 2006? Need to process a big data set efficiently? You should take a look at Vespa!
- 8. 8 About Oath Here are some cool projects worth checking out!
- 9. 9 What I do at Oath {{Advertising}} & {{API}}
- 10. 10 *AAS Models Source: Abstracting the Back-end with FaaS by John McKim
- 11. 11 FaaS or Serverless Computing You may hear people refer to Function as a Service or FAAS as Serverless. The core idea is that you are not concerned about the hosting infrastructure. You only care about the function. Source: https://blog.alexellis.io/introducing-functions-as-a-service/ A perspective of a thought leader on the topic.
- 13. How Painful Are Your Scheduled Jobs? 13
- 14. 14 Use Case - Scheduled Jobs
- 15. 15 Use Case - Scheduled Jobs
- 16. 16 Use Case - Scheduled Jobs
- 17. 17 Use Case - Scheduled Jobs A Pain Point - We had a lot idle hardware not being fully utilized A Pro - Solution is cheaper than previous incarnation A Con - This solution only worked on our cloud components
- 18. How Are You Dealing with External Data? 18
- 19. 19 Use Case - External Data
- 20. 20 Use Case - External Data
- 21. 21 Use Case - External Data A Pain Point - Trouble communicating arrival of external data A Pro - Didn’t touch the existing flow to increase communication A Con - Easily becomes a one-off
- 22. Can I have a lookup API? 22
- 23. 23 Use Case - Looking API Coding Example
- 24. 24 Use Case - Lookup API A Pain Point - A customer needs data we don’t manage A Pro - Very flexible and easy to setup A Con - Becomes more infrastructure to manage
- 25. Before moving on, a few things... 25
- 26. 26 Potential Pitfalls We have many one-off Lambdas Don’t treat a Lambda like a long lived process Dependencies aren’t updated as much as other code Security can be a challenge
- 28. It’s November 1971, and it’s a snow day. How do you let everyone know school is closed? 28
- 30. 30 Use Case - Phone Tree Who has the most work and who has the least?
- 31. 31 Use Case - Phone Tree Who has the most work?
- 32. 32 Use Case - Phone Tree Does this cost less than other solutions?
- 33. 33 Use Case - Phone Tree Source: http://www.costowl.com/b2b/call-center-autodialer-cost.html Why is education so expensive? Stuff like this!
- 34. 34 Use Case - Phone Tree A Pain Point - Some schools are plagued with this problem A Pro - Alert parents on multiple channels with ease A Con - A very custom solution
- 35. Will Lambdas Work for Advertising? 35
- 36. 36 Use Case - Vidroll
- 37. 37 Use Case - Vidroll Source: https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/vidroll/
- 38. Did You Know Accepting Payments Can Be Expensive? 38
- 39. 39 39 Source: https://www.highsnobiety.com/2015/07/27/most-expensive-sneakers-2015-q2/ This is the second most expensive. Do you know the most expensive?
- 40. 40 Use Case - Dirt Cheap Recurring Payments
- 41. 41 Use Case - Dirt Cheap Recurring Payments Source: http://normal-extensions.com/2017/05/05/simple-recurring/ {{LAMBDA}} +
- 42. Wait, we only talked about cloud based solutions. What if I run my own data center? 42
- 43. Use Case - Running Functions in O & O DCs
- 44. Use Case - Running Functions in O & O DCs Open FAAS give you an abstraction layer You can run on existing hardware, public, or private cloud I’m looking into this one in the future
- 45. 45 Cool Stuff to Check Out Code in the Schools - Teaching Computer Science to kids through gaming Digital Harbor Foundation - Dedicated to fostering learning, creativity, productivity, and community through education Baltimore Robotics Center - Robots+Kids+STEM=Cool Code for the Demo - Examples I walked through
- 46. 46 Thank you for your time! I really do appreciate you taking the time to listen me. Do you have any questions?