Serverless Flask and a tangent about the origin of the Power Rangers

A presentation at CodeDaze Vol 2 in September 2018 in Buffalo, NY, USA by Shy Ruparel

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Serverless Python And a tangent about the secret origins of the Power Rangers By Shy Ruparel

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Shy Ruparel Developer Evangelist | Contentful @ShyRuparel He/Him

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serverless vs Serverless

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Serverless Architectures

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Source: https://martinfowler.com/bliki/Serverless.html

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Why Serverless?

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Pay for What you Use

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1 Request = 1 Server

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SERVERLESS Going serverless allows you to create and run applications and services without having to worry about servers - at least not servers that you have to maintain. Zero Downtime Zero Maintenance Pay for what you use Infinite Scaling

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Please don’t fire your ops team

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Let’s look at the state of serverless python

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Serverless Chalice Zappa

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WSGI Microservice

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WSGI Microservice Serverless Zappa Serverless AWS Chalice Zappa

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Vendor Lock-in

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Let’s make a Microsite

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But first it’s time for a small tangent

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19 The Origin of Power Rangers

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KYŌRYŪ SENTAI ZYURANGER MIGHTY MORPHIN POWER RANGERS 1992-1993 1993-1996

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Ok. So I built a dumb Website about this.

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www.contentful.com HENSHIN.RUPAREL.CO

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80 LINE FLASK APP + CONTENTFUL

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www.contentful.com CONTENTFUL

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Let’s make it serverless

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AWS Lambda + API Gateway

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Content Infrastructure Me Writing Content and hoping my friends will share my weird hobbies and help me with this site Browser API Gateway AWS Lambda Zappa Me Writing Code

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SERVERLESS FRAMEWORK

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SERVERLESS FRAMEWORK CONFIG

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www.contentful.com BOTH DEPLOYMENT FRAMEWORKS HANDLE AWS LAMBDA AND API GATEWAY

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38 Let’s talk Metrics

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30 ms RENDER TIME

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$0.000000002/ms COST ON LAMBDA

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3,200,000 FREE FUNCTION CALLS ON LAMBDA

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$3.50 PER MILLION CALLS ON API GATEWAY

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Basically no time TO GET UP AND RUNNING

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Shy Ruparel Developer Evangelist | Contentful @ShyRuparel He/Him Slides -> GitHub.com/shy/talks Background Images -> wocintechchat.com