September is certainly busy for the world’s serverless communities with the month beginning and ending with two distinct events to help developers maximise the power of serverless technologies.
First, the serverless communities of Auckland, Melbourne, Sydney and Perth came together to help plan and deliver Serverless Days ANZ. More than 40 speakers and 60 sessions were held on September 4 with Australian Office Apps & Business Apps MVP John Liu delivering the keynote address.
John reflected on how serverless technologies have changed the way developers code and how makers -- non-professional developers -- have also embraced the technology through Power Platform.
John had previously worked for two decades as an enterprise consultant, always dreaming of one day building his own SaaS product. In his talk -- Building a Serverless Startup to manage Enterprise Serverless Solutions -- John spoke about taking advantage of the serverless stack in his entrepreneurial endeavours.
“Today there are so many more components that we can integrate and plug into our systems,” John says. “Leveraging it all made so much sense when you need to build fast, test fast, and rebuild even faster.”
Four weeks later and it was time for Microsoft Create: Serverless. The half-day virtual event on September 30 connected experts and community members to discuss how to run code for any application without having to manage servers.
MVPs played an important role in the day, with MVP Marc Duiker co-hosting the session “Overcoming Serverless challenges with Durable Functions” and MVP Gwyneth Peña Siguenza co-hosting the day’s only workshop on the strategy needed to move an existing Express API app to serverless.
Gwenyth says the adoption and use of serverless technology in her region has been slow yet steady. Encouraging more developers to understand the advantages and manage the challenges of going serverless will require the community to partner up with providers to bring more attention to new technology, Gwenyth says.
“Including voices from people of all experience levels means we can provide examples of serverless solutions and challenges from all angles. Making content less about tech terminology and more about getting the idea across as concise and straightforward as possible,” she says. For more on Gwenyth, check out her Twitter @madebygps
The other following MVPs also contributed to the Serverless September dev.to content collection: Daniel Krzyczkowski, Barbara Forbes, Jan Hajek, Kevin Griffin, Garry Trinder, Marc Duiker, Mark Heath, Ewerton Rodrigues Jordão, Radu Vunvulea, and Sander Molenka.
The end of September and the arrival of October, however, did not mean the end of serverless community events. Azure Weekend 2020 Malaysia is a recurring weekend event from October 17 until the end of the year. Initially intended as a college tour throughout Malaysia, the event -- much like everything else this year -- migrated online.
Organizing team leader Shaw Chia -- backed by fellow MVPs Eng Soon, Eng Teong, Marvin Heng, Kah Wai, Steve Young, Chester Chin -- decided to bring the idea online as something similar to Global Azure Virtual 2020. Chia designed the program span out three months with a total of 10 sessions to cover the most trendy topics in cloud.
For more, check out the Serverless Days ANZ YouTube channel and the Microsft: Create Twitter @MicrosoftCreate
