Chris Dobson
Senior engineer @ Trustpilot & AWS Community Builder
Huddersfield, United Kingdom
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Chris has been developing software for longer than he cares to remember. Having spent time working in healthcare and video streaming he is currently plying his trade at Trustpilot where he spends most of his time designing and building AWS workloads and implementing good coding and devops practices.
He is an AWS Serverless Community Builder, certified AWS Solutions Architect Professional and Devops Engineer Professional as well as being an AWS Certification Subject Matter Expert.
Outside of work he is a proud Dad of Chloe and Lydia, a distinctly average cricketer and a very slow runner with a couple of half marathons behind him.
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Streamlining an Event-Driven Architecture: A real world transformation
If we are not careful as an event driven architecture matures it can evolve into something resembling the well documented ‘big ball of mud’.
This talk will look at how my team has been transforming a production EDA. It will show how a sparsely documented set of AWS SNS topics used to publish and consume cross-domain events have been transformed into an architecture exhibiting discoverability, governance and observability while continuing to run in production without any data loss.
Orchestrating a workflow in Lambda
There’s a new kid on the block in the world of workflow orchestration, the Lambda Durable Function, which allows an orchestration to be created as a single Lambda Function which can run for up to a year.
- How do you build an orchestration?
- How much will it cost?
- What pitfalls should you look out for?
- Can it do everything you need?
- How do you test or debug it?
Are just some of the questions I had about this new extensions to Lambda.
This talk will take an existing production workflow and look at how it could be built as a Lambda Durable Function from start to finish. I’ll implement the complete workflow, look at how the checkpoint/replay execution model affects this implementation, test and debug the workflow, and look at versioning all through a number of demos which have helped me answer those questions.
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Chris Dobson
Senior engineer @ Trustpilot & AWS Community Builder
Huddersfield, United Kingdom
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