Serverless Basics by Franklin M. Siler You've probably heard the term "serverless" thrown around- but what does it mean? You may have even heard the terms "lambda", "function as a service", or "cloud function". What are these, and why are they just the beginning? Should you get in on this way of thinking? Is it complicated? Do you have to change a lot of things? The answer, of course, is "yes, no, or maybe"- but we are going to talk through the main ideas and how they may or may not be relevant for your application. Spoiler: the big boys are using this stuff, and you can too. (At the end of the talk, and more advanced than the intended content, we may ask Frank about React/GraphQL & Flask on top of DynamoDB vs Aurora/Postgress.) Frank is a geek turned lawyer turned recovering lawyer, and is now a corporate minion doing DevOps and architecture work. He's been running Linux since 1996 (Slackware 3.0.3 copied on many floppies, since he didn't yet own a CD-ROM drive in his own machine), and been a professional systems administrator since about 2001. Through college, grad school, and law school, and while practicing law, Frank made a habit of leveraging technology to manage clubs he participated in, consult on various interesting projects, and even use heavy analytics software to produce legal paperwork. Frank grew up in St. Charles and has recently repatriated there from west County.