{"id":1872,"date":"2019-01-31T11:07:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T09:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/52.91.248.125\/hosting-an-aws-serverless-hero\/"},"modified":"2023-02-28T11:51:49","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T09:51:49","slug":"hosting-an-aws-serverless-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orfium.com\/events\/hosting-an-aws-serverless-hero\/","title":{"rendered":"Hosting an AWS Serverless Hero!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I guess it \u2018s not that common meeting an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apilama.com\/2018\/06\/20\/serverless-apis-microservices\/\">AWS Serverless<\/a>&nbsp;Hero! It is definitely not that common for such a thing to happen in Athens! Well, no matter how unbelievable may that sounds\u2026 this is what happened just yesterday evening!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Almost 10 days ago, I received a message from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/simalexan\">Aleksandar<\/a>&nbsp;on Twitter (similarly to the way&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apilama.com\/2018\/04\/20\/serverless-apps-with-node-and-claudia-js-an-honest-review\/\">I got in touch with Slobodan<\/a>&nbsp;a year ago :P) saying he was visiting Athens. At that moment, I was sitting at my computer, back in Orfium office, working on a rather not that exciting invoicing report. Thrilled from the news Aleksandar had delivered and the chance to have a coffee and meet him in person, I instantly thought; This is something that many would kill to be part of! Why not host an event where the tribe of devs would be able to interact, discuss and share their concerns?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And so that happened!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Event<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/Cloud-Strategy-Architecture\/events\/258269279\/?\">event<\/a>&nbsp;took place in&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/thefoundation.gr\/\">the Foundation<\/a>, at Athens city-centre. No matter the heavy rain (a kind of unusual weather condition for Greece), more than 40 people attended the presentation. Alex went through a tone of interesting different topics, some of which you can discover on his presentation slides featuring below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Alex\u2019s Slides<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Aleksandar is an experienced senior software consultant and engineer, author of the book [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.manning.com\/books\/serverless-applications-with-nodejs\">Serverless Applications with Node.js<\/a>] and an [AWS Serverless Hero](<a href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/developer\/community\/heroes\/aleksandar-simovic\/\">https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/developer\/community\/heroes\/aleksandar-simovic\/<\/a>\u2026). He has worked in a variety of industries ranging from insurance companies, property management companies to innovative biotech startups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His passion is serverless architectures, business impacts of serverless, conversational programming, software craftsmanship and business strategy.<br>One of the authors of Claudia.js and Claudia Bot Builder, Scotty.js, contributor to AWS SAM, AWS Lambda Builders and many other open source libraries.<br>Has published almost 30 free and open source serverless components on the AWS Serverless Application Repository.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-speaker-deck wp-block-embed-speaker-deck wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Faster with Serverless: Building production-ready applications\" id=\"talk_frame_488080\" class=\"speakerdeck-iframe\" src=\"\/\/speakerdeck.com\/player\/a1f64224736347eba0fa5c1350e00a6a\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" style=\"aspect-ratio:500\/375; border:0; padding:0; margin:0; background:transparent;\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>According to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/siaterliskonsta\">Kostas<\/a>&nbsp;(Senior Data Engineer in Orfium).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf I had to highlight just one part from Alex\u2019s talk, then this would definitely be the real cases he brought, elaborating on how common problems can be solved with the use of Serverless. On the one hand, there are so many cases where you can actually use Serverless. On the other hand, there are so many services in AWS, able to provide you with the right solution at the right time. A good suggestion to explore all relevant applications would be to start looking at AWS use cases and tutorials. After all, Serverless is the future and we should be prepared!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Every year,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/reinvent.awsevents.com\/\">Amazon<\/a>&nbsp;announces a handful of new services and a hundred more features. For a quick overview, just check this year\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thelastdev.com\/2018\/12\/13\/how-to-create-an-aws-lambda-layer\/\">Lambda Layers<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thelastdev.com\/2018\/06\/23\/convolutional-nn-with-keras-and-sagemaker\/\">Sagemaker<\/a>&nbsp;optimization, which in my opinion were pretty amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Next Steps<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>For us, the ORFIUM tech team, organising such an event was an amazing experience! That\u2019s why meetups about similar topics and updates will be scheduled in the future.&nbsp;Their&nbsp;main goal? Bring together an audience that shares the same technological concerns, seeks&nbsp;for&nbsp;interact with tech-enthusiasts and professionals while able to discuss&nbsp;on&nbsp;different case studies and ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Based on our culture to promote the dialogue within developers\u2019 community we look forward to sponsoring and hosting more such events in Athens!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><meta charset=\"utf-8\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized is-style-rounded\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/52.91.248.125\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Michael-Petychakis.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-856\" width=\"156\" height=\"156\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p><br><strong>Michael Petychakis<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chief Technology Officer @ ORFIUM<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/michaelpetychakis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/michaelpetychakis\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/mpetyx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/github.com\/mpetyx<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess it \u2018s not that common meeting an&nbsp;AWS Serverless&nbsp;Hero! 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Almost 10 days ago, I received a message from&nbsp;Aleksandar&nbsp;on Twitter (similarly to the way&nbsp;I got in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,19],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orfium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orfium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orfium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orfium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orfium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.orfium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1873,"href":"https:\/\/www.orfium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872\/revisions\/1873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orfium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orfium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orfium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orfium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}