Functions vs Containers: The Serverless Landscape • Marcia Villalba & Julian Wood

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Julian Wood - Serverless Developer Advocate at AWS
Marcia Villalba - Serverless Developer Advocate at AWS
RESOURCES
Marcia
https://twitter.com/mavi888uy
https://www.linkedin.com/in/marciavillalba
https://marcia.dev
https://github.com/mavi888

Julian
https://twitter.com/julian_wood
http://www.wooditwork.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/julianrwood

Links
https://serverlessland.com
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/optimizing-lambda-functions-packaged-as-container-images
https://serverlessland.com/patterns/s3-lambda-container-sam
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/building-php-lambda-functions-with-docker-container-images
Julian & James: https://youtu.be/KDtsC7SjsdA
Marcia: https://youtu.be/bC51iRtXlRw
Liz: https://youtu.be/8fi7uSYlOdc
Julian: https://youtu.be/4YeZf3HupQA
DESCRIPTION
Explore the seamless integration of container images with AWS Lambda! Marcia Villalba and Julian Wood unravel the intricacies of development, deployment, and optimization. Discover how containers revolutionize serverless computing, offering speed, efficiency, and scalability in the cloud. From demystifying cold starts to harnessing caching technologies, this is your chance to learn from the experts. [...]
RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Adam Bellemare • Building Event-Driven Microservices
Peter Sbarski • Serverless Architectures on AWS
Michael Stack • Event-Driven Architecture in Golang
Ford, Richards, Sadalage & Dehghani • Software Architecture: The Hard Parts
Gerardus Blokdyk • Event-Driven Architecture EDA
James Urquhart • Flow Architectures

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Capitoli

1. Intro (00:00:00)

2. Can functions & containers work together? (00:02:21)

3. Containerizing serverless: Exploring lambda's OCI image support (00:06:11)

4. Leveraging lambda's custom runtimes & base images (00:12:03)

5. Configuring lambda container images: Event handling & runtime constraints (00:14:36)

6. Lambda container images: Streamlined development & local testing (00:19:27)

7. Deploying container images to lambda: A seamless transition (00:25:26)

8. Outro (00:35:12)