Igor Soroka
Serverless & Cloud Architect | Speaker | 7× AWS Certified | AWS Community Builder
Barcelona, Spain
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Cloud and serverless architect who’s been building on AWS since 2017, working across e-commerce, healthcare, and finance. Experienced in taking products from idea to global scale, bringing AI into real systems, and helping teams simplify the way they ship software. Based in Barcelona, speaks and consults across Europe and the US on modern cloud architecture and practical serverless design.
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How to use modern serverless with GraphQL
In the year 2024, serverless is much more than just AWS Lambda Functions. Now, it is a full-blown ecosystem of managed services with the concept of paying for what you use. The API level could be written without computing services like Lambda Functions or containers with Fargate. I will show the audience how to deploy the GraphQL API with JavaScript Resolvers, EventBridge, and CDK. Disclaimer: no Lambda Functions will be called during the talk and a demo.
The good, the bad and the ugly of modern consulting
Business requirements are evolving constantly, and so are the demands for new projects. Building new systems and tools with GenAI and machine learning challenges us to think creatively again. The coding is cheaper than before. However, expectations are higher than usual, as every product manager can now build a startup. While delivering multiple POCs as a hands-on architect, I noticed that we are encountering new issues and forgetting about old ones. Being at the forefront of IT and cloud does not mean that we should ignore the basics. I aim to share my insights on modern-day projects, delivering value as a consultant to the business.
Real-world RAG: Why does Cloud Architecture still need to be compliant with corporate standards?
Everyone talks about embeddings, chunking, and vector similarity, but is it only suitable for prototyping? PII leaks into responses, licensing violations stem from company data or internet knowledge, content that should not be shown to specific users, and vector databases that incur hosting costs, reminiscent of 2015. This session cuts through the noise to discuss the practical architecture decisions that make or break RAG applications in production.
The agenda will include:
- Resilient & cost-effective way to build RAG and prepare for growth
- Guardrails and security aspects
- Where to take trade-offs and avoid big surprises
Come for the technical insights, stay for an honest perspective.
Demystifying complexity of managed GraphQL by the example
Connecting the front-end and back-end could be challenging. It could be complex to track all the endpoints and their respective changes, write queries with various methods to REST API. GraphQL solves this by exposing only one endpoint and schema. It gives the whole technical team the ability to understand what's happening. In this workshop, I will show how to set up a fully working back-end application in an event-driven serverless way using AWS CDK and AppSync, offering the full power of the managed GraphQL server with Lambda functions and template resolvers.
AWS Community Day Poland 2025 Sessionize Event
2024 All Day DevOps Sessionize Event
AWS Community Day NL
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Talk: How to use modern serverless with GraphQL
AWS Community Day 2024 - Switzerland Sessionize Event
AWS Community Day Poland 2024 Sessionize Event
2022 All Day DevOps Sessionize Event
JAWS PANKRATION 2021
About Event
JAWS-UG (AWS User Group - Japan) is an Amazon Web Services (AWS) user group with more than 70 chapters across Japan, where technical and human resource exchanges related to AWS are held on a weekly basis, contributing to the improvement of technical skills and business expansion of AWS users.
JAWS PANKRATION 2021 will be the second 24-hour online event hosted by JAWS-UG, and will be a different event from last year's JAWS SONIC 2020. Not only JAWS-UG chapters around the country, but also AWS users, AWS HEROes, and people within AWS from all over the world will be invited to participate in a variety of sessions, including AWS study group styles and stories about using AWS in various countries.
My session
Infrastructure as Real Code for Serverless use case
Why do you still writing YAML files of 2000+ lines for serverless apps in 2021? In this talk, I will show the benefits of using CDK. One can use it to provision Lambda functions, API Gateway, and DynamoDB without the pain of counting tabs and simple conditioning for various environments. Increased developer productivity is guaranteed after writing your infrastructure and implementation code with the same programming language.
ServerlessDays Amsterdam
CDK and SERVERLESS - more straightforward than you think.
Instead of using CloudFormation for the following AWS project, one could consider using CDK. It will allow writing clean and maintainable code instead of counting tabs in a 2000-line YAML file. Why is it convenient to start with provisioning cloud infrastructure for the serverless use case?
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