Yan is an experienced engineer who has run production workload at scale in AWS for 10 years. He has been an architect and principal engineer with a variety of industries ranging from banking, e-commerce, sports streaming to mobile gaming. He has worked extensively with AWS Lambda in production for the last 4 years. Nowadays, he splits his time between advancing the state of serverless observability as a Developer Advocate at lumigo.io and helping companies around the world adopt serverless as an independent consultant.

Yan is also an AWS Serverless Hero and a regular speaker at user groups and conferences internationally. He is also the author of Production-Ready Serverless and co-author of Serverless Architectures on AWS, 2nd Edition, both by Manning. And he keeps an active blog at theburningmonk.com and hosts a weekly podcast at realworldserverless.com.

Yan will talk about:
Beware the potholes on the way to serverless

Looking in from the outside, serverless seems so simple! And yet, many companies are struggling on their journey to serverless. In this talk, Yan Cui will highlight a number of common mistakes companies are making when they adopt serverless and how you can avoid them.

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Dr. Venkat Subramaniam is an award-winning author, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., an instructional professor at the University of Houston. He has trained and mentored thousands of software developers in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia, and is a regularly-invited speaker at several international conferences. Venkat helps his clients effectively apply and succeed with sustainable agile practices on their software projects.

FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING IDIOMS IN JAVA
Preventing Code From Becoming Dysfunctional

Functional Style programming has reduced accidental complexity when compared to the imperative style of programming. The code can be easier to read and easier to modify. The key, however, is that the functional style code should be written with care and with a certain discipline. Functional style code is no panacea. In this presentation, we will discuss some dos and don’t when writing functional-style code and ways to achieve the benefits of functional style code.

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