Presented at ServerlessConf NYC 2016 Pain points, tips and ideas for the future of Serverless

1. What I wish I’d known last year
Pain points, tips and ideas for the future of Serverless
Paul Johnston
CTO of Movivo
@PaulDJohnston on twitter and medium

2. Movivo
Bringing free mobile internet/airtime
to developing countries
Serverless from launch - nearly 500,000 installs

3. http://giphy.com/gifs/animation-family-guy-gsuKn27oREY12

5. Code for no server access
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6. Public Domain

8. Start with deployment management
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9. Photo: DLR, CC-BY 3.0

10. Public Domain

11. Don’t just start and see what happens
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13. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcos_Engineering#/media/File:Two_Marcos_Mantis_Challenge_race_cars.jpg
CC BY-SA 3.0

14. You can afford to fail faster
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16. Zero or 1 per function
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17. Don’t overcomplicate your data schemas!
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18. Only pull in libraries you need
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20. = Apocalypse?No

21. Code For No Servers +
Manage Deployment +
Better Engineering +
Fail Faster +
Simpler Data Schemas +
Limit Libraries
More Free Time!=
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22. Thank you
I hope this makes your serverless work a lot easier
Paul Johnston
CTO of Movivo
@PaulDJohnston on twitter and medium