Serverless meetup at the FT

by Greg Cope

The FT hosted it’s second London Serverless meetup on Wednesday 11th October. Around 60 people from across London came to hear about Serverless in the FT’s Conference Suites.

What’s serverless? Serverless is the aggregation of third party services (e.g. data stores), including ones that run simple business functions (Functions As A Service, known as FaaS). AWS Lambda is one of the best known of these. See; Serverless Architectures from Martin Fowler for more. Although it gets it’s name from not involving servers directly, everything runs on third party servers underneath…

At this meetup Yan Cui, Senior Developer at Space Ape Games spoke about “Lambda stories from the trenches“ where he described some of the problems they have faced and gone on to solve running their Mobile games platform on a Serverless Architecture. Yan is a prolific blogger, check out some of his posts here; https://hackernoon.com/@theburningmonk

Ant Stanley then did a live demo of the new serverless framework (https://arc.codes/) released recently by Brian Le Roux and his team at Begin. A great framework if you’re focused on using serverless for websites or chat bots. Ant also over-ordered far too much pizza and drinks…

We have another Serverless meetup due on 15th November — please sign up here if you are interested in watching this area evolve.