I’m running a live course on designing serverless architecture with AWS Lambda

Yan Cui

I help clients go faster for less using serverless technologies.

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Hi everyone, just a quick note to let you know that I’m running a live online course with O’Reilly on designing serverless architectures with AWS Lambda.

It’s a 2-day course on September 11-12th with 6 hours in total, and it’s available for free if you have a subscription with SafariBooksOnline. Registration for the course is open till September 7th, so if there are still spaces available then you can even sign up for a free 10-day trial on SafariBooksOnline just before registration closes and get the course for free.

Sign up here.

The course will cover a variety of topics over the two days:

  • AWS Lambda basics
  • the Serverless framework
  • testing strategies
  • CI/CD
  • centralised logging
  • distributed tracing
  • monitoring
  • performance considerations including cold starts
  • config management
  • Lambda in VPC
  • security
  • best practices with API Gateway and Kinesis
  • step functions
  • explore several design patterns with Lambda

Whenever you’re ready, here are 3 ways I can help you:

  1. Production-Ready Serverless: Join 20+ AWS Heroes & Community Builders and 1000+ other students in levelling up your serverless game. This is your one-stop shop for quickly levelling up your serverless skills.
  2. I help clients launch product ideas, improve their development processes and upskill their teams. If you’d like to work together, then let’s get in touch.
  3. Join my community on Discord, ask questions, and join the discussion on all things AWS and Serverless.