#7: Serverless at LifeWorks with Scott Smethurst and Diana Ionita (Part 1)

Real World Serverless with theburningmonk

This is part 1 of my conversation with Scott Smethurst and Diana Ionita about their work at LifeWorks. We talked about the story of LifeWorks, a wellbeing startup that were acquired for $400M, in part, thanks to the heroics of Scott and Diana. They implemented business critical features using serverless technologies, delivered them under severe time constraints and created significant business value which played a part in the acquisition.
We talked about how they made their systems multi-region and geo-partitioned their user data. We discussed why they opted for Apollo server instead of AppSync and the challenges of transitioning to a serverless way of doing things - including changing in mindset, local debugging and testing.
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Opening theme song:
Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday/
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

פרקים

1. #7: Serverless at LifeWorks with Scott Smethurst and Diana Ionita (Part 1) (00:00:00)

2. who is LifeWorks? (00:02:15)

3. LifeWorks's journey to serverless and 400M acquisition that followed (00:03:53)

4. 25 microservices, over 170 Lambda functions, 2.5 developers (00:06:21)

5. on the benefits and challenges of going multi-region and geo-partitioning user data (00:08:07)

6. on why Apollo server on Lambda instead of AppSync (00:10:52)

7. on the challenges of changing to the serverless way of doing things (00:13:56)

8. on how many AWS accounts should you have? (00:18:54)