Workshop: Programming the Cloud with TypeScript: Serverless, Containers and Kubernetes

Today’s cloud platforms offer an amazing array of capabilities for application developers to leverage: containers, serverless functions, managed infrastructure, and hosted data and AI services, to name a few.  Using these services, however, is often cumbersome and treated as an afterthought, not core to the software development process -- copy/pasting YAML files, pointing-and-clicking in Web UIs to make one-off changes, etc.  It's difficult to share and reuse abstractions, and we find ourselves perpetually and thanklessly recreating the wheel.  Worse, teams are left mastering entirely different technologies and techniques depending on what cloud they are targeting. 

In this workshop, we will examine an emerging approach to dealing with this problem that builds on top of existing infrastructure as code and DevOps best practices, but uses general purpose programming languages like TypeScript and Python.  Using general purpose languages provides one uniform approach to defining and delivering applications and infrastructure consistently in multi-cloud environments -- including on-premises, hybrid, and any public cloud, including Kubernetes.  We can use IDEs, test frameworks, and all the other great things we know and love about programming languages.  By the end of this workshop, you'll have put this practice into action by deploying two modern cloud architectures using nothing but TypeScript -- no YAML required.