[Pycon] [new paper] "Michelle Brenner" - Serverless App Showdown: How to choose the right cloud provider

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Title: Serverless App Showdown: How to choose the right cloud provider
Duration: 45 (includes Q&A)
Q&A Session: 15
Language: en
Type: Talk

Abstract: Everyday it seems like Amazon, Google & Microsoft cloud tools are getting better and offering ways for engineers to get things done more easily and cheaply. However, most engineers rarely work with more than one. There is a steep learning curve for each and it’s almost impossible for an entrenched app to move from one to another. But when you’re making a new app, how do you decide? You need to know how much it will cost at the prototype stage, but also when you have a million users.

In this talk I’ve created the same Python based app with all 3 services, AWS, Google Cloud & Microsoft Azure. I’ll discuss the various tools I used, how hard it was to find answers and what scaling would looks like. I’ll compare the costs in both engineering time and money. I will provide my code as a boilerplate as well as all the best tutorials, so the audience can try them all out themselves. 

This talk is for engineers that have heard about serverless apps, but haven’t used them yet or have only used one of the cloud providers. In general I like to speak on topics that help people get projects done faster and easier. The array of technical options for any project can be overwhelming and I like to help explain options in ways everyone can understand. I try not to make assumptions on technical knowledge and make sure to define terms so everyone can follow along. I do expect the audience to have some basic knowledge of APIs and/or scripting, but everyone should be able to follow along. At the end of the talk the audience will have a basic understanding of starting an app in each service and a framework for deciding which one to use for their next project.


Tags: [u'google-cloud', u'serverless', u'Azure', u'aws', u'Python']