Monitoring

The Present and Future of Serverless Observability

What is the focus of your work today?

At the moment, I’m building the backend services for a real-time multiplayer game on mobile, including an inhouse networking stack that will be deployed globally and supports both TCP and reliable UDP. We’re still doing a lot of tuning, and would put an early alpha build in front of users for external validation on our networking stack as well as general gameplay and meta design, and to get a better idea on the game’s potential to be the next big hit.

What’s the motivation for this talk?

I have worked extensively with AWS Lambda the last 2 years, especially during my previous job as architect at a social networking startup called Yubl, where we learnt a lot about operating a serverless architecture in production and many of the operational challenges that need to be addressed, as the technology itself is still very much rough around the edges.