This document contains the agenda for a ServerlessToronto meetup on October 15, 2019. The agenda includes an introductory activity update, a community open mic session, a featured talk on "Building CI/CD pipelines for Serverless apps on AWS" by Frank Wang and Jay V, and a networking portion. It also lists sponsors of the event and upcoming future talks. The featured talk section provides details on the topics to be covered including real-world Serverless applications, CI/CD best practices, using CodeBuild and CodePipeline for pipelines, and other tools like Travis CI, CircleCI, and Seed.

1. Tuesday, Oct 15, 2019
1. Intro & Activity Update
2. Community Open Mic
3. Frank Wang & Jay V: “Building
CI/CD pipelines for Serverless
apps on AWS”
4. Networking
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ServerlessToronto.org Meetup Agenda

2. Why we do what we do?
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Serverless is New Agile
Serverless Dev (gluing
other people’s APIs
and managed services)
We're obsessed by
creating business value
(meaningful MVPs,
products) and helping
Startups
We build bridges
between Serverless
Community (“Dev leg”),
and Front-end & Voice-
First folks (“UX leg”),
and empower UX
developers
Achieve agility NOT by
“sprinting” faster (like in
Scrum), but by working
smarter (by using
bigger building blocks
and less Ops)

3. #ServerlessTO
Sponsors
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4. Catering Sponsor
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Communication APIs for SMS, Voice, Video and Authentication

5. Venue Sponsor
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As Certified B Corporation, Myplanet is purpose-driven and
creates benefit for all stakeholders, not just shareholders!

6. Manning Publications 2019 giveaways
Three eBooks and one Video course left:
1. www.manning.com/books/http2-in-action
2. www.manning.com/books/the-design-of-
everyday-apis
3. www.manning.com/books/voice-applications-for-
alexa-and-google-assistant
4. www.manning.com/livevideo/graphql-in-motion
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7. Future Talks
2019
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8. Upcoming Serverless Toronto Meetups
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1. November 14, 2019: Joint meetup with JAMstack
TORONTO – Phill Hawksworth from Netlify
2. Nov/Dec 2019: Serverless Heroes (authors of
“Serverless Applications with Node.js”) Slobodan Stojanović
& Aleksandar Simović should be visiting us. If they cannot
make it from Serbia, we’ll just host a panel with local experts
to answer your architectural & design questions.
3. Dec 2019/Jan 2020: re:Invent recap – Jonathan Dion,
Senior Technical Evangelist at AWS

9. Community Open Mic
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10 seconds of freedom
to pitch yourself, or
your company
About You – because without you, there would be no meetups!

10. Feature Talk
October 2019
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11. SEEDwww.seed.run
Building CI/CD Pipelines for
Serverless Applications

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What we’ll be covering
Real-world Serverless apps
CI/CD best practices
CodeBuild + CodePipeline
Travis CI, CircleCI, and Seed

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Frank Jay
💎
@fanjiewang @jayair

14. Serverless-Stack.com

16. www.seed.run

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Let’s get started!

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Serverless Architectural
Patterns & Best
Practices
Mike Apted
Startup Solutions Architect at AWS
by

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Real-world Serverless apps
Dozens of services
Multiple Git repos
With many environments
Pull request based workflow

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Apps vs Services
App: collection of services
Service: has a serverless.yml

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Organizing services
Microservice architecture
Organized by business units
Split by the 200 resource limit

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Organizing repos
Repo for infrastructure
Repo with all APIs + Lambdas

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Multiple environments
Environments are cheap
Long lived vs ephemeral
Split by multiple AWS accounts

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dev prod
dev
prod
feature-X
Infrastructure
API Services

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Development workflow
1. Work in a new feature branch
2. Create a PR when ready
3. Review & merge PR to master
4. Promote to Production

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CI/CD in the
Serverless world

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Continuous Integration
Git push triggers build
Run linting & other checks
Run unit tests
Generate build artifacts

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Continuous
Deployment

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Deploying services
Dozens of services
Each takes a few mins
Deploy them concurrently

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Inter-service dependencies
CloudFormation exports
Order of deployments
Deploy in phases

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Review infrastructure changes
Infrastructure as code
Easy to make mistakes
Review change sets

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Ephemeral environments
Many short-lived environments
Branches + PRs environments
Auto setup & teardown

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Efficient deployments
Slow deployments
Most common complaint
Deploy only updated services
Check Git log & artifact hash

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CodeBuild +
CodePipeline

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CodeBuild
CI service
Serverless build containers
Like CircleCI and Travis CI

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CodePipeline
Manage pipelines
Create multiple steps
CodeBuild is one of the steps

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Pipeline setup
www.seed.run/blog/how-to-build-a-cicd-
pipeline-for-serverless-apps-with-
codepipeline-and-codebuild

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version: 0.2
phases:
install:
runtime-versions:
nodejs: 10
commands:
- npm install -g serverless
- npm install
- cd $SERVICE_PATH && npm install && cd -
build:
commands:
- cd $SERVICE_PATH && serverless deploy -s $STAGE && cd -
cache:
paths:
- node_modules
- $SERVICE_PATH/node_modules

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Pros
Completely AWS native
Runs in your account
Very customizable
And cheap!

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Cons
Very complicated
Lots of AWS knowledge
Needs branch + PR workflow

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Others

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Travis CI
Good Git workflow support
Popular with OS projects
Pay for concurrency
CD needs manual setup

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CircleCI
Very flexible
Lots of scripting
Pay for concurrency
CD needs manual setup

59. SEED
www.seed.run
contact@seed.run
twitter.com/seed_run

60. Join www.ServerlessToronto.org
Home of “Less IT Mess”