Serverless Teams: Best Practices and Observability Excellence on AWS

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📖📖 Abstract 📖📖
This session will feature 2 ⚡(lightning) talks.

🗣️ Josh will talk about : Empowering Serverless Teams: Enforcing Best Practices While Maintaining Developer Velocity

In this session, we will explore how to implement best practice guardrails for serverless teams on AWS. This guide will delve into both the technical aspects and best practices required to effectively manage configurations and maintain compliance without hindering developer velocity.

Topics covered will include:

AWS Config: Best practices for setting up and managing AWS Config to track resource configurations and ensure compliance.
Cloud Development Kit (CDK): Strategies for using CDK to automate the provisioning of compliant resources and guardrails.
Automatic Remediation: Methods for implementing and managing automatic remediation actions to address non-compliant resources promptly.
Configuration Management: Approaches to scaling configuration management across multiple accounts using AWS Organizations, Config Aggregator, and StackSets.

🗣️ Sol will talk about : Achieving Observability Excellence for AWS Serverless Architectures

This talk will demonstrate how to leverage AWS CloudWatch and X-Ray for observability in serverless architectures. We'll explore a basic setup using API Gateway and Lambda, showcasing practical techniques to debug common issues. Attendees will learn how to effectively use these tools to gain insights into their serverless applications, improve performance, and quickly resolve problems in production environments.

🎚️ Level 🎚️
Beginner - Intermediate

🗣️ Joshua Thorne (Serverless Architect @ aleios)

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🗣️ Solomon Parker (Serverless Developer @ aleios)

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