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Time
19 hours 19 minutes
Difficulty
Intermediate
CEU/CPE
20
Video Transcription
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>> Hey everybody and welcome back.
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In this lecture, we're going to discuss AWS Lambda,
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which is another compute service.
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In this lecture,
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learning objectives are going to be to describe
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the serverless technology and talk a little bit
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about the Lambda service and how that works.
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Here we go, here we are, it's serverless time.
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Now, funny enough,
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I'm going to just go ahead and say it.
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Serverless does still involve servers,
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but it doesn't involve you managing it,
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which is why we call it
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serverless. Oddly enough, I don't know.
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Yes, it does not equal servers and you managing,
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but under the hood, it's still a server
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that is still going to be running everything for you.
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You're just not worried about anything virtual.
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You're not worried about any operating systems
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or hard drives or any of that stuff.
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All of that is already taken care of.
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The only thing you need to do is write and deploy
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your code which is awesome.
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If you're a developer, this is a great service to
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leverage and it's very scalable,
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is very available, it's very secure.
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There's a lot of
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really cool benefits with using serverless.
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It was pioneered by the Lambda service offered by AWS,
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but other Cloud providers have offered up
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their flavor of it as well.
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We are seeing this leveraged quite prevalently,
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especially when it comes to
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microservice architectures which is
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definitely beyond the scope of this exam.
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But if you're curious and you
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really want to sink your teeth into the Cloud,
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I would definitely encourage you look it up.
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AWS Lambda is a virtual function
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and it is running on top of a server.
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It does have some virtualization
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going on behind the scenes,
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but all of that is taken care of by AWS,
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so you don't have to worry about any of it.
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What you do need to do is
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you need to write your application code,
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and when you go to set up a function,
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you're going to set up a runtime for set function.
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That runtime is obviously going to be
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determined based on the language of the code.
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If you're running a PHP application, select PHP runtime.
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If you're running a Java application,
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select Java runtime and
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you can deploy your code and go from there.
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How it works though,
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is that your code only runs when it is being triggered.
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When there's an events, it triggers
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your code and then your code or the function
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executes and then your code is running and it
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runs for a short period of time.
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Then it goes to sleep,
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and it goes to sleep until it's run again,
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and that's how it goes.
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Lambda is very, very cost-effective because you're
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only paying for when it's running,
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and actually AWS gives you a lot of free runs.
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I want to say it's like in the,
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I think it's one million. It could be 500,000.
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I don't know if they've changed it recently,
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but they give you a lot of runs at first.
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Actually, I think it's just consistent that
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you always get so many free runs per month.
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After that then you have to pay,
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it's like pennies per run that
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goes for each time that your function runs.
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Very, very cost-effective.
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It's honestly extremely cheap when you
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compare it to a container,
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or especially an EC2 instance
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is going to be a lot more cost-effective that way.
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In that sense is also easily scalable.
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Of course, you can automate it very easily as well.
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A couple of things to note though with Lambda
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is that sometimes you run into
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some compliance concerns with running
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Lambda because you don't have
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very good management over the underlying environment.
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Like I said the server, the operating system,
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whether it's shared or whether it's dedicated hosts,
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all of those details,
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you don't know what's going on.
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When it comes to regulatory compliance in the Cloud,
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it can be a service
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that you are running into issues with and
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the regulations just won't let you do it because you
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don't know what the short tendency
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is like and those situations
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sometimes you can not
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benefit from the cost efficiency of Lambda.
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You have to use an EC2 instance,
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that's just the trade-off.
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But in most situations where you're not
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dealing with that type of regulation, Lambda is great.
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If all you're doing is writing code,
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it's a great way to build out
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your application and to do it cheaply. That is Lambda.
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So some benefits. Oh yes, here we go.
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So my apologies, I forgot I had written this slide.
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With free tier, you get one million lambda requests and
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400,000 gigabytes of compute time.
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You pay per requests and you pay for
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the compute time after you've hit those thresholds.
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It integrates with the whole AWS service catalog.
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I don't know if I've already said that,
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but yes, it does.
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It does integrate with everything.
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It can run all different programming languages.
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You're not going to be quizzed on any of that.
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You're just going to be quizzed
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on primarily what Lambda is
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and maybe a couple
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of scenario questions where you can see Lambda,
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and they're going to ask you which service would
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be a function that can run the application,
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and it's cost-effective and
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managed and fully available like in
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that situation all those characteristics would lead up to
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Lambda not ECS or EC2 or anything like that.
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Yeah. Just be on the lookout for that.
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But you're probably not going to see a lot
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of questions on this service.
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It's going to be easily monitored by CloudWatch,
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so you can see it's along with other services in
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AWS via the CloudWatch so you can monitor it that way.
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That's it. Like I said,
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not a lot to be concerned
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about in this exam when it comes to Lambda,
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but it is a very beneficial service and you should
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definitely learn more about it.
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In this lecture, we covered
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an overview on the serverless technology.
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We did an intro on AWS Lambda, and that's it.
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Feel free to check out some labs.
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I really like Lambda quite a bit.
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I've done some personal labs built
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like WordPress sites on my local and I ran it.
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I actually use Lambda
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to convert the dynamic WordPress site to static.
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Then hosted the static site using S3.
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It was a very, very cool lab
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project that I was just
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curious about and I wanted to do it.
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But there's so many other projects you can do,
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so be sure to take a look around
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and see what serverless projects are going on
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and see how you can leverage the AWS Lambda
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to mess around and play
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with those projects so you can learn.
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So that wraps up this lecture here,
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and I'll see you guys in the next one.
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