Rob Gruhl and Erik Erikson - What We Learned in 18 Serverless Months at Nordstrom

What we’ve learned in eighteen serverless months at Nordstrom

RobGruhl SeniorManager,ServerlessTechnologiesTeamErikErikson SeniorEngineer,ServerlessTechnologiesTeam

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Serverless Applica7on Framework

• Automateddeployment•  Singlesystemdefini?onacrossaccounts,stages&environments•  Sourcecontrolallthethings!

AWS Serverless: Top 6

1.  engineeringfocusedonnewcustomervalue2.  lesscodeforthesamefeatureset3.  requireshardworktoreduceavailability4.  “free”andprod-equivalentlowerenvironments5.  performancetweaking:easy!profitable!6.  fine-grainedpermissions

AWS Serverless: Challenges

1.  Sharedlimits2.  APIGateway:“NocanhasVPC”3.  Dependencyonserverless.comframework4.  Occasionallatencyissues(avg.OK)5.  End-to-enddebugging

What we want to see:

• Moretransparency• Weighted-round-robindeploymentsolu?ons• Beberdebuggingandtroubleshoo?ngtools•  Securityreviewandpenetra?ontes?ngguidance• Moreandbeberdocumenta?onandbestprac?ces

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We’rehiring!•  Engineers•  TechnicalProgramManager

We’recoding!•  Serverlesssolu?onsforsystems,tes?ng,monitoring,andperformance•  Contribu?ngtoserverless.com,ar?llery.io,?.nextopensourceprojects• Whatareyouusing?

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Rob Gruhl and Erik Erikson - What We Learned in 18 Serverless Months at Nordstrom