Serverless Stocking Stuffers: The 12 things you missed about serverless at this year's re:Invent

December 2-6, 2019 | -

Last week at re:Invent, AWS delivered a dizzying amount of new features and services. With hundreds of serverless sessions and dozens of announcements, it’s hard to identify the things that matter most to your team. If you’re a little confused, you’re not alone. In this session hosted by New Relic Principal Product Manager Adam Johnson and AWS Senior Developer Advocate James Beswick, we'll cover everything new in the world of AWS Lambda and serverless. We'll go deep into the ins and outs of some of the new key features in Lambda and surrounding services, such as Provisioned Concurrency, Step Functions Express Workflows, and 10 other new features that were announced at re:Invent. In addition, Adam will be covering what’s new in the world of serverless observability and some of the new features available on New Relic.

If you’re a little confused, you’re not alone.

In this session hosted by New Relic Principal Product Manager Adam Johnson and AWS Senior Developer Advocate James Beswick, we'll cover everything new in the world of AWS Lambda and serverless. We'll go deep into the ins and outs of some of the new key features in Lambda and surrounding services, such as Provisioned Concurrency, Step Functions Express Workflows, and 10 other new features that were announced at re:Invent.

In addition, Adam will be covering what’s new in the world of serverless observability and some of the new features available on New Relic.

Serverless Stocking Stuffers from re:Invent:

How to use Provisioned Concurrency to get rid of cold starts forever
Saving cloud costs with Step Functions Express Workflows
The 10 other critical announcements you missed and what to do about them

Event speakers

James Beswick

Senior Developer Advocate, AWS Serverless

James Beswick is a Senior Developer Advocate for the AWS Serverless Team in the United States. James works with AWS's developer customers to understand how serverless technologies can drastically change the way they think about building and running applications at massive scale with minimal administration overhead. He has previously worked as a Software Developer and Product Manager at various enterprises and startups, and has nearly a decade of experience building applications in the cloud.

Adam Johnson

Principal Product Manager, New Relic

Adam is Principal Product Manager for New Relic Serverless where he’s focused on making it more fun for developers building modern applications on serverless. As former co-founder and CEO of IOpipe (acquired by New Relic in November), he spent the past two and a half years helping enterprises get real-time visibility into the most granular behaviors of their serverless applications.