Accelerate your adoption of Serverless technologies with various Cloud platforms.
Meet others from your industry and get to know the tech space in the heart of Music City
Participate, Interact and Ideate with other like minded techies.
Relax and take some time to chill out, recharge and return energized.
Senior Developer Advocate / AWS
James Beswick is a Senior Developer Advocate for the AWS Serverless team. James works with AWS's developer customers to understand how serverless technologies can drastically change the way they think about building and running applications at massive scale with minimal administration overhead. He has previously worked as a Software Developer and Product Manager at various enterprises and startups, and has nearly a decade of experience building applications in the cloud.
Keynote Address
Cloud Solution Architect / Microsoft
Linda Nichols is a Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft. In addition to creating software solutions, she has a passion for community involvement and education. She is a co-founder of Norfolk.js, NodeBots Norfolk, and RevolutionConf. She also enjoys teaches local classes and workshops. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from Old Dominion University and a Masters in Information Technology from Virginia Tech. She enjoys bad karaoke, good sushi, and all varieties of cats.
DevOps in a Serverless World
Senior Manager / Asurion
Micah Hodge is a Senior Manager of Software Engineering at Asurion, where he has filled several roles over the last 7 years. In his current role, Micah manages application development, CI/CD, and release automation teams. He serves as a product owner and as a cloud CI/CD consultant for many of Asurion’s projects across the globe. Micah is also a tireless promoter of DevOps methodologies and enjoys working with others to help them embrace cloud technologies.
Building a PCI Environment using Serverless
Software Engineer / Stackery
Danielle Heberling is a software engineer with a background that includes being a musician and teaching at a K-8 public school. She’s passionate about building things that make the world a better place, whether that be through social change or a good laugh. When she’s not writing code, you can often find her reaching back to her teaching roots by mentoring folks from underrepresented groups that would like to make a career switch into tech.
The Serverless Mindset
Serverless Architect / Theodo UK
Architect developer and Serverless Advocate for Theodo, working with startups to launch MVP’s and large corporates to deliver in startup speed. Tech at heart, love to code, participating in hackathons, guest lecturing as part of the University of Southampton CompSci Bsc course and acting as a tech advisor to multiple startups.
Don't be SecureLess: Lambda Best Practices
Senior Solutions Architect / AWS
Ramesh Adabala is a Solutions Architect in Southeast Enterprise Solution Architecture team at Amazon Web Services.
Innovator Island: Build a serverless web app for a theme park
Solutions Architect / Commercetools
James Luterek is a seasoned ecommerce professional with over a decade of experience across software development, architecture, marketing, and analytics. Today, James is busy helping enterprise clients maximize their commercetools implementation through code, workshops, and advice on schemas and data models, in his role as a Solution Architect.
Blueprint for Serverless Microservices
Cloud Software Engineer Lead / Trek10
With ten years industry experience, Amy Arambulo Negrette has built web applications for a variety of industries including Yahoo! Fantasy Sports and NASA Ames Research Center. One of her projects modernized two legacy systems impacting the entire research center and won her a Certificate of Excellence from the Ames Contractor Council. Currently, she builds APIs for enterprise clients for a cloud consulting firm and leads a team of other Cloud Software Engineers. Amy has survived two acquisitions, one round of layoffs, and balancing life with two small children.
Managing Your Serverless Servers
Open Source Software Developer / IBM-CODAIT
Brendan Dwyer is an open source software developer at the IBM Center for Open Source Data and AI Technologies.
Develop and Deploy Deep Learning Microservices
Data Scientist / IBM-CODAIT
Karthik Muthuraman is a data scientist and developer advocate at IBM’s Center for Open Source Data & AI Technologies (CODAIT), where he works on open source deep learning models and contributes to open source deep learning frameworks like TensorFlow. Karthik holds a Master’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he focused on machine learning and computer vision. Prior to that Karthik was at E2Open working on big data platforms.
Develop and Deploy Deep Learning Microservices
Senior Developer Advocate / AWS
Eric Johnson is a Senior Developer Advocate for serverless at AWS. His passion is to help developers understand and employ best practices for planning and developing event driven, highly scalable applications using serverless technologies. Eric has been a software developer and architect for almost 25 years with a focus on serverless since 2014.
Thinking Asynchronously
Developer Advocate / VMware
Leon is Cloud Advocate in the Cloud Services organization at VMware. His focus is currently on how to use serverless technology in the broadest sense of the word, the Kubernetes ecosystem, and CI/CD tools to build cloud native apps. Prior to joining VMware, Leon was a Developer Advocate at JFrog helping developers get the most out of their CI/CD tools. As a Developer Advocate at TIBCO, Leon worked on the open source project Flogo. Leon holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Applied Sciences in Rotterdam. In his personal life, he’s on a mission to taste cheesecake in every city he visits (suggestions are welcome @retgits).
Continuous Verification In A Serverless World
CTO / AlertMe
Jeremy is a passionate serverless advocate, an AWS Serverless Hero, and a senior technology leader with more than 20 years of experience building web and mobile applications. He is an active member of the serverless community, creating and contributing to open source serverless projects, and frequently consulting with companies looking to adopt serverless. Jeremy also writes extensively about serverless on his blog (jeremydaly.com), publishes Off-by-none, a weekly email newsletter that focuses on all things serverless (offbynone.io), and hosts the Serverless Chats Podcast (serverlesschats.com). He is currently the CTO of AlertMe.
How to fail with Serverless
Principal PM / MS Azure Serverless
Jeff Hollan is Principal PM Manager for Azure Serverless at Microsoft and one of the original members of the Azure Serverless team. He is very active in the serverless community and has spoken at conferences around the world concerning architectures and best practices. Jeff is known for his energetic and demo-filled talks and is always eager to meet new people and understand what they need in a productive cloud platform.
Message Patterns that will make or break your app at scale
Software Engineer / Asurion
I’m a software engineer at Asurion in Nashville, and have been working with serverless technologies for the past 3 years. I have a passion for teaching and mentoring others, and growing the local developer community.
Serverless Framework Plugins: Deep Dive
Director of Engineering / Medhost
Pandian Velayutham is a technology evangelist who has built enterprise applications to solve a number of fortune 500 business problems. An early adopter of microservices architecture and cloud technology to help millions of patients in the healthcare industry. Strongly believes in the DevSecOps culture change to adopt/move/increase agility. He is passionate about new ideas, technology, and innovation. Currently plays the director of engineering role to develop products related to cloud services, analytics, and integration/interoperability.
The Game of Serverless
Tech Lead Software Engineer / Conta Azul Brasil
Husband, father of Teodoro and Olivia, Speaker, Software Engineer, Serverless Enthusiast. Evandro Pires da Silva has been programming since he was 12 years old and has been working with Java since 2005. During his career, he has worked as a programmer, software architect and solutions architect leading technical teams.
Serverless with Java: it's possible
Cloud Solution Architect / Microsoft
Jeremy Gray is a Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft who is responsible for creating cloud application designs for a range of customers in the insurance industry. Jeremy is an active advocate of serverless technologies and helps customers modernize and deploy successfully in Azure, at-scale. Jeremy lives in Cincinnati with his wife and three children.
Solving a Real-World Hybrid Integration Problem
Co-founder & CEO / Epsagon
Nitzan is a software engineer with over 12 years of experience in programming, machine learning, cyber-security, and reverse engineering. He is currently the Co-founder & CEO of Epsagon which specializes in bringing observability to serverless cloud applications.
The Real Cost of Pay-Per-Use in Serverless
AppSec Engineer & Instructor / SANS
Brandon is an Instructor for the SANS Institute and works as a Senior Application Security Engineer at Asurion. As an engineer, Brandon performs secure code reviews, conducting penetration tests, developing secure coding patterns, and evangelizing the importance of creating secure products.
Attacking Serverless Servers: Reverse Engineering the AWS, Azure, and GCP Function Runtimes
Master Enterprise Architect / Nissan North America and Global Nissan Digital
As a Master Enterprise Architect at Nissan North America and Global Nissan Digital, Arnold is responsible for architecture strategy formulation, reference architecture development, technology R&D and standards governance.
Cloud Native - Serverless Strategy and Architecture
Developer Advocate / Auth0
James is a developer, speaker, and teacher with a passion for web development, tooling, and design. He speaks at community events, participates in Hackathons, and runs a popular YouTube channel. As of 2020, James is thrilled to be a Senior Developer Advocate at Auth0. He also has three years of Evangelism experience at Microsoft and three years of experience as a Full-stack Developer at FedEx.
Serverless Functions and Static Sites - A Match Made in Heaven
Software Engineering / Change Healthcare
Derek Hollis has been with Change Healthcare since June 2019 and is based in Nashville. He has held a number of engineering roles, architecting and leading development teams, and most recently, leading the Customer Identity Access Management (CIAM) team at Change Healthcare. Prior to joining Change Healthcare, Derek Hollis worked as a Director of Engineering at GS&F.
Enterprise SSO with AWS Lambda
Microsoft MVP and Engineer / AppDyanmics
Josh Carlisle is a Microsoft MVP in Azure and an engineer with AppDynamics. Based out of Raleigh, North Carolina he has been engaging with the developer community for more than half of his professional career. With over 20 years of development and consulting experience, he is currently focused on Microsoft Azure and Azure’s Serverless offerings and is also a co-organizer for the Triangle Serverless and .Net Meetups.
Choosing a Serverless Monitoring Platform
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Event Kick-off from the Organizers
Keynote from James Beswick
Join Linda for a deep dive analysis and demo on how processes change when we’re developing cloud-native or “serverless” applications. Challenge your perspective on questions that come with migrating into a fully-hosted application and using the Function as a Service (FaaS) offerings and moving to a fully-hosted ecosystem; how do we maintain our best practices? Is it possible to keep our typical DevOps processes when most of our environment is abstracted away from us?
Join Micah for a step-by-step walkthrough of a multi-region AWS serverless application designed for PCI storage. This includes a review of the architecture and lessons learned as well as security and failover strategies.
Lunch and Networking.
Join Eric for an extensive talk on thinking asynchronously and dealing with decision points such as evaluating what tasks require the client to wait versus what can be done after the fact. Eric will do a walkthrough of taking an existing translation application that is synchronous and modifying it to use asynchronous patterns using technologies like Amazon DynamoDB Streams and Amazon EventBridge.
Jeff will share some lessons learned and best practices honed by customers running mission-critical serverless apps. Everything from ordered delivery, retries, pub/sub events like CloudEvents, and more. Review the top 4 messaging principles that every cloud-aware dev should know about, and understand how to pick one for a task. While the lessons learned are from major Microsoft customers, the concepts apply to every cloud provider, and discussion will include mapping patterns to service offerings.
Join Jeremy to get an indepth understanding of dealing with failures in serverless applications while building resilient, highly-available systems. Jeremy will be dealing with topics such as lambda DLQs, retries, and throttling; event source mapping with Kinesis, SQS and DynamoDB streams; Step Functions, fallback methods etc. with the ability to apply these strategies to other cloud providers as well.
The serverless world comes with 4 inherent drawbacks - State, Latency, Local testing and Loss of control. How to overcome these drawbacks? How to start your serverless journey and be successful? Come and hear from Pandian about the Medhost story and lessons learned to overcome fear and anxiety.
Enter into the world of multi-factor authentication as you maintain the balance between "conventional cloud hosting" coupled with "serverless technologies". Derek will be discussing on integration with an industry recognized solution to create a secure, streamlined sign-on solution while maintaining HIPPA compliance.
Closing Remarks and Prizes
Join Josh to deep dive into how you can monitor your Serverless workloads is one of the most crucial decisions you have to make. In this vendor-neutral talk, Josh will walk through the decision-making process and discuss vital considerations, common pitfalls, and tradeoffs so you can make the right decision for your app.
Join Jeremy in navigating a method to bridge on-premises content and workflows with serverless cloud components. Jeremy will delve into an insurance industry call center example to show the benefit of integrating existing resident systems with Azure Cognitive Services and serverless eventing fabric.
Serverless framework is one of if not the most widely used frameworks for creating and deploying serverless applications. It has a rich plugin ecosystem that allows for a high degree of extensibility and customization. This talk will be geared towards understanding what plugins are and how they work, what are some of the most useful plugins available, and how you can create your very own plugin to customize your serverless deployment.
Join Arnold as he discusses what Nissan Digital is doing regarding cloud native/serverless strategy and architecture. Arnold will walkthrough their guiding principles/themes, where they see serverless functions fit in their ecosystem and going beyond functions/FaaS. Learn about their approach to developing reference architectures and architectural patterns to harness these principles which can be implemented by any organization.
In this session you will learn about the art of deploying deep learning services in production. Dive into the IBM Model Asset eXchange (MAX) and get an overview of how deep learning models (primarily implemented in TensorFlow and PyTorch) are best published as Docker Images on DockerHub, and are best prepared for deployment in local or cloud environments using Kubernetes or Docker.
Come hear Amy share some indepth practices and challenges when handling logic in serverless apps, managing timeout and memory limitations with services like AWS lambda or Google Cloud and leveraging runtime archives for standardizing deployments.
Lunch and Networking.
Join Brandon to get an in-depth understanding of serverless security from an attacker's perspective. In this session, Brandon will demonstrate how a compromised function can be used to gain sensitive credentials and pivot to other services through live demonstrations on AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, and Google Cloud Functions.
Come hear Danielle about how we can attract and retain folks from non-traditional backgrounds in tech. And the mindset changes necessary from a developer workflow standpoint that applies to folks new to software engineering and seasoned software engineers just getting into serverless.
Come hear Ben share some best practices for keeping your Lambda's secure in areas such as temporary storage, the granularity of Lamba's, IAM policies, observability, API Gateway, and the OWASP Top Ten.
Come hear Evandro share how one can build serverless functions with Java, the most used programming language in the world, and sharing concepts about serverless architecture and its relation to Java. Evandro will be doing a code walkthrough while comparing Serverless with different programming languages and best practices leveraging IBM Cloud.
In this session James will be discussing about the process of building a serverless microservices architecture. This topic with look into areas such as infrastructure, frameworks, CI/CD pipelines with pros/cons of various implementations.
Join Leon as he shares the adoption of the serverless mindset when dealing with CI/CD and the importance of having integration and delivery pipelines. Leon will look at extending an existing CI/CD pipeline with checks for security, performance, and cost to make a decision on whether we want to deploy our app or not.
Join Nitzan and he deals with the crucial topic of effectively managing costs when using pay-per-use type services. The talk will include a varied number of topics such as cost comparisons with AWS Lambda vs EC2, interpreting the serverless bill, cost distribution and managing it, etc. Nitzan will also do a walkthrough of a personal example of a very high monthly bill for AWS Lambda that they were able to detect before it exploded.
Learn how to add powerful functionality to your Static Site using Serverless Functions. We will deploy a Static Site using a popular framework called Gatsby to an amazing host called Netlify and add powerful functionality to any Static Site using Serverless Functions.
Innovator Island is a popular theme park that’s rolling out a mobile app for thousands of visitors. The app provides wait times, photo opportunities, notification alerts, and language translation for visitors who need it. However, the lead developer has disappeared, and in this workshop, you’re part of a development team that’s assembling the pieces left behind. Learn and practice building a scalable serverless web app with limited development resources.
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App Info: The workshop uses architecture leveraging services such as AWS Lambda, Amazon API Gateway, Amazon S3, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon Cognito.
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This workshop will be jointly hosted by @James Beswick, @Ramesh Adabala and @Eric Johnson
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Breakfast: 8:00a
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Closing Remarks: 5:00p
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