Navigating Failures in Serverless: War Stories and Architecture Patterns

Serverless systems on AWS promise high availability and scalability, but in real-world applications, failures are inevitable. How you respond to these challenges defines the resilience of your architecture.

In this talk, I’ll share real-world war stories from nearly a decade of working with serverless workloads, highlighting key failures and the architecture patterns that helped us recover. But more than theory, I will take you through how these patterns can be implemented using AWS services like SQS, SNS, Lambda, Step Functions, EventBridge, and more.

Join me to explore how practical AWS solutions can transform failure into a blueprint for building stronger, more resilient serverless systems.

/Automate. Serverless and event-driven approach to DevOps

In today’s fast-paced development environments, reducing manual tasks is crucial for productivity and developer experience.

This talk will explore how a fintech market leader in Sweden, created a serverless and event-driven integration with Slack on AWS. Creating a solution, to automate tasks across a multi-account setup. Learn how this journey optimized cost, enhanced productivity and security by eliminating repetitive tasks, by minimizing human error. A key aspect was integrating alarms and notifications directly into Slack, enabling developers to take immediate action on system alerts. We will look at the problems, deep dive into implementation, and the challenges we faced. Join us to gain valuable insights and practical tips for transforming your workflows.

Audience will learn how we integrated our DevOps way of working and tooling with Slack to automate tasks, boosting productivity, creating better developer experience and at the same time reducing cost.

Key Takeaways:
- How to automate task to increase developer experience
- How to create an serverless and event-driven solution across multiple AWS accounts
- Using automated scheduling to save cost

Crafting a Serverless, AI-Powered Translation Service

Imagine a translation service that not only converts text but also brings it to life with natural-sounding voice. In this live, interactive session, we’ll build a serverless, event-driven translation solution powered by AWS, using services like AWS Step Functions, EventBridge, Lambda, Translate, and Polly.

We’ll dive deep into how these AWS tools work together to create an efficient and scalable system. Along the way, you’ll see firsthand how serverless architecture allows for seamless integration and rapid development, all while harnessing the power of AI for both text translation and voice synthesis.

Join me for a hands-on experience where we’ll transform complex requirements into a fully functioning solution, all in real-time.

Event-Driven and serverless in world of IoT

In large-scale IoT systems, where thousands of devices are constantly communicating, data and control messages can flow unpredictably and at varying rates throughout the day. Serverless and event-driven architectures provide a dynamic and efficient solution to this challenge.

In this session, we’ll explore why serverless is a great fit for IoT, particularly in handling data ingestion and management. We’ll dive into the key architectural patterns used in IoT systems, highlighting how event-driven design enables scalability, flexibility, and cost optimization.

I’ll also walk you through an architecture I designed for an IoT use case, showcasing the integration of various AWS services tailored for data ingestion, processing, and analytics. Along the way, we’ll discuss the challenges encountered and lessons learned during development, offering actionable insights into the unique aspects of building serverless IoT solutions.

Join me to understand how serverless and event-driven architectures can unlock the full potential of IoT, enabling resilient and scalable systems that are easy to manage and adapt to evolving demands.

BBQ Meets IoT, a smart offset smoker with AWS

Achieving the perfect BBQ requires more than just a good recipe, it's all about mastering temperature control and timing. In this session, I'll take you through the journey of connecting my BBQ smoker to the cloud, turning it into an IoT-powered cooking machine with AWS.

We'll explore how I built a serverless, event-driven system that ensures my smoker stays at the ideal temperature while monitoring multiple cooking zones simultaneously. I'll dive into key AWS services like IoT Core, Lambda, and EventBridge, showing how they work together to collect telemetry data, send real-time notifications, and maintain precise temperature control throughout long cooking sessions.

You'll discover how IoT and serverless architectures solve real BBQ challenges, from maintaining consistent heat during overnight brisket cooks to getting alerts when it's time to wrap your ribs. I'll share my BBQ evolution, from manual temperature checks every hour to the fully automated system that lets me perfect my craft while the technology handles the monitoring.

Whether you're passionate about BBQ or IoT, this session will give you hands-on insights into building smart systems with AWS that enhance any process requiring precision and monitoring.

**Target Audience:** Developers, IoT enthusiasts, cloud engineers, and anyone interested in practical IoT applications. Basic familiarity with AWS services and IoT concepts is helpful.

**Session Level:** 200 (Intermediate) - This session provides practical insights into building IoT solutions with real-world examples. Attendees should have basic understanding of cloud services and development concepts. AWS IoT and serverless concepts will be explained as we dive into the implementation.

From zero to AWS Hero: A journey to an AWS cloud architect

# From zero to AWS Hero: A journey to an AWS cloud architect

## Description

In the evolving landscape of technology, cloud computing has become a strong force driving innovation, scalability, and efficiency. This talk presents my journey from a developer in an embedded world to the world of AWS as an cloud architect, developer and AWS serverless Hero. What training resources I used and my experience learning AWS. We'll also look at a few of my first solutions and how they evolved. As a last part we'll look at how the AWS Community has impacted my journey. This is based on my story, my journey, my experience!

## Takeaways

An understanding of the fundamental shifts in mindset and skill set required for successful cloud development.
A roadmap of learning resources, including certifications, online courses, and community platforms, tailored for both beginners and intermediate developers.
Practical advice on overcoming challenges, within cloud projects.
Inspiration from my story of transitioning to cloud computing, continuous learning, and the impact of embracing cloud technologies.

## Audience

This talk is designed for developers, IT professionals, and enthusiasts at any stage of their career who are curious about or are in the process of transitioning to cloud computing. Whether you are taking your first steps into the cloud or looking to deepen your expertise, this session will provide valuable insights and guidance on your journey to cloud mastery.

Serverless website analytics with Lambda@Edge

In this talk we will dive into the innovative approach of utilizing AWS Lambda@Edge to gather statistics for a static website, focusing on server-side data collection for page views, user locations, and devices without client-side scripts.
This solution leverages AWS services like S3, CloudFront, StepFunctions, Glue, Athena, and Managed Grafana to process and analyze data efficiently, offering scalability, cost-effectiveness, and minimal impact on website performance. We'll delve into the architectural setup, data flow, and performance improvements.

Serverless and event-driven IoT SaaS Platform, from enterprise to BBQ

In large-scale IoT SaaS systems, where thousands of devices across multiple tenants are constantly communicating, data and control messages can flow unpredictably and at varying rates throughout the day. The complexity multiplies in a IoT SaaS platform when tenant isolation, device authorization, and data security cross all communications needs to be considered. Serverless and event-driven architectures provide a dynamic and efficient solution to this multi-tenant challenge.

In this session, we'll explore how serverless and event-driven architectures provide the foundation for robust IoT SaaS solutions. I'll walk you through the architectural decisions behind building a multi-tenant IoT platform, diving deep into the unique challenges we faced, including AWS IoT Core limitation. We'll cover critical aspects like device onboarding, tenant data isolation, authorization patterns for both humans and devices, and security considerations for IoT SaaS platforms. Additionally, we'll examine how effective IoT SaaS platforms require multi-region support to ensure low-latency device connectivity for global deployments, and the architectural implications this brings.

To bring these concepts to life, I'll showcase how my own BBQ smoker leverages this platform, demonstrating real-world usage of the multi-tenant architecture we built. Join me to understand how serverless and event-driven architectures can unlock the full potential of IoT SaaS platform, enabling resilient and scalable systems that are easy to manage and adapt to evolving demands.

**Target Audience:** Software architects, IoT platform engineers, SaaS developers, and cloud engineers working with or planning to build multi-tenant IoT solutions. Prior experience with AWS IoT services and serverless architectures is recommended.

**Session Level:** 300 (Advanced) - This session assumes familiarity with AWS services, IoT concepts, and basic understanding of multi-tenancy challenges. Attendees should have hands-on experience with serverless architectures and cloud development.