John Gilbert - Software Architecture Patterns for Serverless Systems

Architecting for innovation with events, autonomous services, and micro frontends

John Gilbert

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To my wife, Sarah, and our children, for their endless love and support on this journey.

John Gilbert

John Gilbert is a CTO with over 30 years of experience in architecting and delivering software systems across many industries. His cloud journey has spanned all the levels of cloud maturity, from lift and shift and software-defined infrastructure to microservices and continuous deployment. He was an early serverless adopter and put his first serverless workloads into production just months after AWS Lambda's introduction. He has also authored Cloud Native Development Patterns and Best Practices and JavaScript Cloud Native Development Cookbook. He finds delivering serverless solutions to be, by far, the most fun and satisfying, as they force us to rewire how we reason about systems and enable us to accomplish far more with much less effort and risk.

Kamesh Ganesan is a cloud evangelist, seasoned technology professional, author, speaker, and coach with over 24 years of IT experience in all major cloud technologies, including AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle, and Alibaba Cloud. He has over 50 IT certifications, including 5 AWS certifications, 3 Azure certifications, 3 GCP certifications, 6 OCI certifications, and an Alibaba Cloud certification. He has played many roles, including certified multi-cloud architect, cloud security architect, cloud-native application architect, lead database administrator, programmer analyst, and developer. He has architected, built, automated, and delivered high-quality, mission-critical, and innovative technology solutions that have helped his enterprise, commercial, and government clients to be very successful and have significantly improved their business value using multi-cloud strategies.

Greg Leonardo is currently a cloud architect helping organizations with cloud adoption and innovation. He has worked in the IT industry since his time in the military. He is a veteran, father, architect, teacher, speaker, and early adopter. Currently, he is a Certified Azure Solution Architect Expert, Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), and Microsoft Azure MVP, and he has worked in many facets of IT throughout his career. Additionally, he is president of TampaDev, a community meetup that runs #TampaCC, Azure User Group, Azure Medics, and various technology events throughout Tampa.

He has also authored Hands-On Cloud Solutions with Azure and the previous two editions of Azure Strategy and Implementation Guide for Microsoft by Packt Publishing.

Lalit Rawat is an Azure MVP and MCT and is currently working as a solution architect. He is the author of AZ-104 Azure Administrator and Azure Interview Q & A. He likes to share his knowledge through his blog and manage and share his technical skills in AzureTalk Community, BITPro, and Azure User Meetup groups. He has written a number of articles on Microsoft Azure. He is a speaker and has delivered sessions at the MS Global bootcamp and other events. He has delivered more than 500 training sessions to professionals worldwide in Microsoft Azure and other technologies, including SCOM and Windows Server. In addition, he provides instructor-led online training and hands-on workshops. His technical prowess and ability to explore new frontiers of technology and impart them to his aspiring team members are his trademark.

Sivaraj Ambat is a cloud expert and software professional specializing in application development for the web, desktop, mobile apps, chatbots, and AI-based applications. He has over 25 years of industry experience in diverse roles and companies, ranging from instrumentation and industrial robotics to embedded systems and software application development. He is a recipient of the US-based Training Magazine's 2016 Top 20 Emerging Training Leaders Award and has also been a winner at many hackathons and quiz competitions. He currently works at Tech Mahindra, Bangalore, as a principal consultant and senior fellow. He can be reached at @sivarajTweets on Twitter.