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Serverless at AWS re:Invent 2019

Our annual AWS re:Invent conference is just two weeks away! We can’t wait to meet you for an AWSome week in Las Vegas. The Serverless team is now hard at work preparing to deliver over 130 sessions at re:Invent. Come meet us and learn about how to use the newest Serverless innovations to build and architect for modern applications.

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Breakouts, Talks, Builders, & Demos!

To find any Serverless session, you can search our Agenda for the key words “SVS” or you can visit our re:Invent 2019 Session Catalog. Lets take a look at some of the Architecture-focused sessions you might want to join:

Workshops

  • SVS305-RHow to secure your Serverless APIs
    You’ll get hands on with Amazon API Gateway and learn how to architect for scale and security.
  • SVS303-R: Monolith to Serverless
    This workshop shows you how to re-architect monolithic applications to AWS Lambda-based microservices.

Breakouts

  • SVS308Moving to event-driven architectures
    Learn about the new event-driven world and how our newest tools help you develop event-centric applications.
  • SVS407: Architecting and operating resilient Serverless systems
    This is an excellent session to learn best practice patterns for building reliable applications.
  • SVS401Optimizing your Serverless applications
    Learn how to choose the correct services in your architecture and how to design your Lambda functions and APIs for security and scale.

Chalk Talks

  • SVS338: API Patterns and architectures (REST vs GraphQL APIs)
    We’ll help you evaluate your choices for modern APIs. Come learn how to choose between Amazon S3 REST and GraphQL
  • SVS213: Thinking Serverless
    How do you go from a flowchart to a Serverless application? Come to this session to learn the techniques you can use to design Serverless architectures.
  • SVS323: Mastering AWS Lambda streaming event sources
    This talk will go in depth on the common architecture patterns for consuming and scaling Amazon Kinesis and Amazon DynamoDB streams with AWS Lambda.

Builders Sessions

  • SVS330: Build secure Serverless mobile or web applications
    Get hands on experience building a serverless web application using AWS AppSync, AWS Lambda, Amazon API Gateway, and Amazon DynamoDB.

Come Meet Us

Don’t forget to come stop by our Serverless expert booth in the main Expo Hall. We will have many people from the Serverless team ready to speak with you!

Our Serverless team, including specialist solutions architects and developer advocates will be onsite throughout the week. We’d love to meet you, hear about your projects, and help with any architecture questions. Reach out to Sam Dengler, Brian McNamara, Chris Munns, Eric Johnson, James Beswick, and me, George Mao. See you onsite!

See You in Las Vegas!

I can’t wait to meet you in Las Vegas and hear about your projects. Please reach out to us and let’s chat about Serverless! As a side note, reserved seating is available for all sessions, so be sure to log in to your re:Invent account to reserve a seat and join us for all kinds of Serverless architecture discussions and hands-on training.

George Mao

George Mao

George Mao is a Specialist Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services, focused on the Serverless platform. George is responsible for helping customers design and operate Serverless applications using services like Lambda, API Gateway, Cognito, and DynamoDB. He is a regular speaker at AWS Summits, re:Invent, and various tech events. George is a software engineer and enjoys contributing to open source projects, delivering technical presentations at technology events, and working with customers to design their applications in the Cloud. George holds a Bachelor of Computer Science and Masters of IT from Virginia Tech.