Comic Relief runs some of the largest fundraising events in the UK with Red Nose Day and Sport Relief. One of our challenges is to take a large amount of donations in a short amount of time. In this talk I will show you how we have architected a high-volume serverless donations platform that is capable of taking hundreds of donations a second, whilst allowing different parts of the application to fail gracefully.
I will talk about our architecture on AWS, our continuous delivery pipeline using Concourse CI, test-driven development, our node.js codebase and how we reduce code duplication. I will also cover how we load test our application and apply chaos engineering to test various parts of the application. Finally, I will reflect on the value serverless brings to our engineering tasks.
Requirements
Intermediate, some knowledge of AWS preferable
Objective talk
Learn how we built and run a number of high-profile serverless applications in production with a relatively small engineering team.
You can see Peter’s presentation here:
https://youtu.be/uyWDrEh0PvA
https://www.slideshare.net/pvhee/going-serverless-at-comic-relief/
