I spent some time working at AWS in Seattle - and I saw the internals of this organization first-hand. The underlying technology that AWS provides to it’s customers, is the same technology that Amazon uses to host their own site - and it’s available to use throughout the world for reasonable prices. AWS is widely used by startups and enterprises alike, has relationships with schools and startup incubators to provide free credits, and is battle tested from years of production experience. At this time of this writing, it’s estimated that AWS controls 3x more resources than its closest competitor, Microsoft Azure. RPG players rejoice - we’re creating a fully functional, dice-rolling chat bot for Slack! While the example bot will be for Slack, the same idea can be easily adapted to create a bot for Telegram, Discord, or nearly any other chat service with a bot API.Īmazon Web Services (AWS), which released AWS Lambda in 2014 - is estimated to control 50% of the cloud computing market. In true newline-fashion, we’ll get rolling with a practical application right away.

Serverless on Lambda gives developers the resources needed to write, deploy, and maintain production-ready software - all without significant operational overhead. It’s a relief to be able to get right into the code, without worrying about configuring operating systems, deploying containers, or scaling clusters. While all of those things are possible with Lambda (especially cost savings which are common - but certainly not guaranteed), it’s the development agility and reduction of operations overhead that drives my love for the service. Some developers love using serverless tech because it helps them save money, scale quickly, and deliver on reliability goals. We’ll see that for certain common projects - like custom chat bot creation - AWS Lambda really shines for it’s simplicity, affordability, and ability to integrate with the wider AWS ecosystem. In this newline course, we’re going to learn what serverless technology is and isn’t, and why it belongs in your developer toolbox. Serverless Computing may sound like a scary topic, but with the rise of AWS Lambda and mature tools supporting it - it’s more approachable than ever. Create a Serverless Slack Bot with AWS Lambda and Python #

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