Microservices and Serverless Event (29th April 2017)

On 29th April’17, April 8 different meetup groups of Bangalore came together and did a joint event on Microservices and Serverless. The 8meetup groups were AWS, Azure, DevOps, DigitalOcean, Docker, Hybrid Cloud, Kubernetes and Mesos Meetup groups. It was like a mini-conference :). ~250 people registered and from them, ~200 came, which is a pretty good turnaround. More details about the background of the event are here.

The event was hosted at Walmart Labs, India. They sponsored food and made excellent arrangements for the event. Everything went smooth and on time. We had a great line of talks for the event.

• Introduction to Microservices – Manu PK, Schneider Electric – Slides/Content – Video
• Microservices SDK – Ken Sipe, Cloud Architect, Mesosphere – Video
• Introduction to Serverless – Vishnu Mishra, EQTribe Software Solutions – Slides/Content – Video
• Doing Serverless with Docker – Neependra Khare, CloudYuga – Slides/Content
• Hosting a Dynamic Website without any servers Dilip Kola – Tensult – Video
• Microservices and Serverless implementation in IoT solution on Azure – Sudhir Rawat – Microsoft – Slides/Content
• Inter-Process Communication in Microservices using gRPC – Shiju Varghese – Slides/Content – Video
• OpenWhisk for serverless computing – Pradipta Banerjee and Sudipta Biswas – IBM – Slides/Content – Video
• Going serverless with AWS Lambda and .NET Core – Vikram Chaudhary -GE – Slides/Content – Video
• Using Mesos based resources in the form of docker containers from Jenkins CI system – Subramanyam Iyer – Oracle – Slides/Content – Video
• Tracing/Debugging in Micro services using OpenTracing – Hemant K Shaw – IBM – Slides/Content – Video

I think Ken Sipe’s talk on DC/OS and Shiju’s talk on Microservices was the highlight of the event. Due to some confusion, my talk was not recorded. I gave a demo of FaaS by Alex Ellis, using a custom Twitter function. Thanks to all speakers for sharing their knowledge with us.

From the collected fee we would be giving a gift voucher of INR 1500 each to our speakers. After all the sessions we had a Q & A sessions with the participants as well. Participants who gave the right answer got a t-shirt from DigitalOcean and would be getting a gift voucher from the collected fee as well.

I would like to thank the organizers of different meetup groups Habib, Jasnoor, Aditya, Mohit, Kumar Gaurav, Krishna M, and Madan for coming together for this event. And thanks to the team of Walmart India Deepak, Sunita, Gopal, Nitin and other volunteers. We could not get everyone in the same frame but here is a picture of the team, who made this event possible. 

I hope participants learned something new and will look forward to being part of more such events in the future.