I had a good time at AWS re:Invent 2017 last week, despite being sick as a dog for most of it. Though I caught fewer sessions than I would have liked, the ones I did attend on serverless topics were top notch. Here are some links to my favorites:

ARC401 – Serverless Architectural Patterns and Best Practices

Highlights:

• Serverless foundations
• Web applications
• Data Lakes
• Stream processing
• Operations automation (e.g., Tailor, for automating AWS account creation)
• Excellent review of best practices and new features in Lambda

SRV401 – Become a Serverless Black Belt: Optimizing Your Serverless Applications

Highlights:

• Optimization Katas
  • Lean Functions
  • Eventful Invocations
  • Coordinated Calls
  • Serviceful Operations
• Cold start issues in Lambda
• Instrumenting Lambda with XRay
• Resource allocation
• Concurrency vs. latency
• Compelling customer story from ACloudGuru’s VP of Engineering on going 100% serverless

SRV305 – What’s New in Serverless

Highlights:

• Announced Serverless Application Repository
• Reviewed new Lambda console
• Reviewed new Lambda features
• Reviewed Cloud9 IDE
• Reviewed XRay tracing for Lambda
• New API Gateway features
• Compelling customer story from FICO’s VP of Engineering