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AWS NYC Summit 2023 Talk: Scaling Event-Driven Architectures with Serverless Micropayments (DevChat)
AWS, Serverless, Infrastructure as Code Brian H. Hough AWS, Serverless, Infrastructure as Code Brian H. Hough

AWS NYC Summit 2023 Talk: Scaling Event-Driven Architectures with Serverless Micropayments (DevChat)

At the AWS NYC Summit 2023, I delivered a 30 minute DevChat to ~200 attendees on how I built an event-driven serverless micropayments system on Amazon Web Services (AWS) for The Capital Platform. In my talk, I discuss: Cases for serverless vs. serverful architectures, How I used LLMs (OpenAI, Google Bard, and Hugging Face) while building, How I built our serverless payments architectures with Stripe and many AWS services, and What our multi-table database design looks like with DynamoDB. Serverless is more than "just Lambda," and this approach, combined with our Infrastructure as Code (Iac) pipeline, has allowed us to stand up features, front-end-to-back-end, with robust autoscaling and updatable configurations, like payments…

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AWS re:Invent 2022 Talk: "Become a Full-Stack Developer: Migrating my company from GCP to AWS"
AWS, DevOps, Serverless, Infrastructure as Code Brian H. Hough AWS, DevOps, Serverless, Infrastructure as Code Brian H. Hough

AWS re:Invent 2022 Talk: "Become a Full-Stack Developer: Migrating my company from GCP to AWS"

At AWS re:Invent 2022, I delivered a 30 minute DevChat on how to become a full-stack developer through the lens of migrating my company from Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to Amazon Web Services (AWS). If you've ever... wanted to build serverless apps, wanted to start your developer journey, wanted to become a full-stack developer, or wanted an excuse to start building something on your mind... then this 30-minute talk is for you…

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AWS Just Announced that the Future is Serverless at re:Invent — Day 3
AWS, DevOps, Serverless Brian H. Hough AWS, DevOps, Serverless Brian H. Hough

AWS Just Announced that the Future is Serverless at re:Invent — Day 3

We just wrapped up Day 3 of Amazon Web Services (AWS) re:Invent and there were a ton of announcements! AWS CEO Adam Selipsky delivered the opening keynote and announced a number of exciting updates and announcements, including Amazon Private 5G (imagine building your own 5G network - how cool is that?!)...Amazon SageMaker Canvas for low-code machine learning in the cloud...and a great analysis of what a modern data strategy looks like…

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How to Build Serverless Workflows with AWS Step Functions and AWS Lambda Functions
AWS, DevOps, Full-Stack, Serverless Brian H. Hough AWS, DevOps, Full-Stack, Serverless Brian H. Hough

How to Build Serverless Workflows with AWS Step Functions and AWS Lambda Functions

Gone are the days where you'd have to spin up physical servers with your own hardware and maintain it to build and run your own apps. Thanks to the AWS serverless suite of tools, we can now run full-stack applications, and even functions and compute power, right from the cloud. Today, we're going to be building a full-stack serverless Age Sorting Application. We'll discuss how to use various AWS tools, such as API Gateway, AWS Step Functions, AWS Lambda Functions, and connect them to a ReactJS front-end user interface so that we can take in user inputs and algorithmically filter the input based on what we tell the code to look for…

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