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Serverless and Java in the Real World

The siren song of Serverless lures developers in with promises of “only write business logic” and “deliver value quickly”, but it’s often unclear how to actually work on large-scale, real world Serverless applications, especially in an old-school language like Java. Concerns like incremental builds, configuration management, and continuous delivery are incredibly important. More so than the actual underlying technology, how these process concerns are addressed determines whether your team truly realizes the benefits of a Serverless architecture.

In this talk, Symphonia co-founder John Chapin builds on the themes of his QCon 2017 talk, “Fearless AWS Lambdas”, and describes the nuts and bolts of building large-scale Serverless applications using Java. He walks through the efficacy of a Java approach to a variety of Serverless use cases, and through live examples demonstrates pragmatic approaches to developing scalable, evolvable, multi-Lambda applications.


Speaker

Johnathan Chapin

Cloud Technology Consultant with an expertise in Serverless Computing

John Chapin is a co-founder of Symphonia, an expert Serverless and Cloud Technology Consultancy based in NYC. He has over 15 years of experience as a technical executive and senior engineer. John was previously VP Engineering, Core Services & Data Science at Intent Media, where he helped...

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Mountbatten, 6th flr.

Track

Evolving Java and the JVM: Mobile, Micro and Modular

Topics

ServerlessScaleJava 11Continuous DeliveryJVM

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