Patrick Meiler
Solutions Architect @ AWS
Berlin, Germany
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I'm a Solutions Architect at AWS and passionate about Serverless and Event-Driven-Architectures.
I started my career as a consultant at IBM, where I made my first steps into Cloud, Containers, and Kubernetes.
I also enjoy going to the gym, buying books, starting to read them, and forgetting they even existed.
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Serverless Without the Mess: Avoiding Common Pitfalls in Cloud-Native Systems
Serverless architectures promise simplicity, scalability, and cost savings—but reality often looks different. Teams encounter unexpected costs, cold start performance issues, and debugging challenges that make serverless harder to manage than expected.
This talk explores the most common pitfalls in serverless adoption and how to avoid them. Learn how companies optimize costs, handle performance bottlenecks, and improve observability in large-scale AWS deployments. We’ll debunk myths around serverless pricing, discuss real-world reliability challenges, and uncover the best strategies for maintaining visibility in distributed cloud-native systems.
Join us to gain practical insights from real-world use cases and understand when serverless is the right choice—and when it isn’t.
Event-Driven Architectures Done Right: Scaling Microservices with AWS
Event-driven architectures enable scalable and decoupled systems, but without proper planning, they can lead to complexity, event duplication, and debugging nightmares.
This talk breaks down the key challenges and best practices for designing reliable event-driven microservices using AWS services like EventBridge, Step Functions, and SQS. We’ll explore real-world examples of companies building resilient architectures and handling failures in distributed environments. Learn when to use orchestration vs. choreography, how to manage retries and dead-letter queues, and what it takes to maintain observability in asynchronous workflows.
Discover how event-driven architectures can improve scalability, reduce operational overhead, and transform your cloud-native applications.
How not to sabotage a successful start of your cloud journey
Embark on your AWS journey with confidence in this insightful session designed for newcomers to the cloud. We'll tackle common initial hurdles, debunk prevalent anti-patterns, and illuminate successful strategies drawn from real-world enterprise experiences. Gain essential knowledge on adopting AWS best practices from the start, including account provisioning, automation, implementing guardrails, and securing operations. Learn why a strong start is pivotal for accelerating future cloud endeavors. Attendees will leave equipped with the know-how to streamline their cloud adoption process, ensuring a robust, efficient, and secure AWS infrastructure.
Serverless Patterns Workshop
Serverless applications are built using many services in a few common architecture patterns. Although customer scenarios are unique, the patterns emerge again and again. Join our hands-on workshop to learn about common serverless and event-driven architecture patterns. This workshop is tailored for developers keen on mastering production-ready serverless development, and architects aiming to discover common patterns for serverless applications. Through hands-on sessions, you'll uncover the best practices essential for crafting production-ready applications, ensuring scalability, reliability, and efficiency. Equip yourself with the skills to innovate and excel in the serverless landscape, preparing your projects for the demands of today's digital world.
Refactoring to serverless
Serverless not only reduces time spent managing infrastructure, but it can also reduce application code. Replacing custom code with fully managed cloud services makes applications more reliable and easier to maintain. And thanks to cloud automation tools like AWS CDK, you can keep using the same familiar programming language to configure those services. As the lines between application code and automation code start to blur, you can refactor your application to better utilize the AWS Cloud and more cleanly separate business logic from application topology. This session shares a catalog of such refactoring with real-life examples.
Building Highly Scalable Microservices with Serverless
Explore the journey from monolithic to serverless microservice architecture. In this session we're going to look at a real case study and learn how to design robust architectures, and address challenges like service to service communication, security, reliability and availability. Understand the intricacies of using serverless for microservices, comparing containers versus functions, and delve into the people and process challenges, including deployment strategies and mindset shifts. Gain practical insights and best practices to overcome obstacles and achieve scalable, efficient microservice solutions. At the end attendees will gain confidence in building scalable event driven microservice architectures, while being able to understand trade offs and overcome challenges of distributed computing.
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