A short talk given at the AWS Berlin Meetup July 2015

1. All your Content one API

2. AWS Lambda
use cases in infrastructure

3. About me
Paolo
@hungryblank
CTO @contentful
contentful.com

4. AWS Lambda?
AWS Lambda is a compute service that
runs your code in response to events...

5. AWS Lambda?
You can use AWS Lambda to extend
other AWS services with custom logic

6. AWS Lambda?
or create your own back-end services
that operate at AWS scale

7. AWS Lambda?
1. write your code (JavaScript/Java)
2. “upload” to AWS lambda
3. bind to event (S3, SNS, dynamo....)
4. profit

8. Lambda at Contentful
AWS
Contentful
Customer Apps

9. Lambda at Contentful
AWS
Contentful
Mid ground infrastructure

10. AWS Lambda?
You can use AWS Lambda to extend
other AWS services with custom logic

11. lambda at Contentful
Self aware
S3
buckets

12. Lambda at Contentful
Wouldn’t be great if…
S3 updates automatically invalidate the
Cloudfront cache?
Mid ground infrastructure

13. S3 + Lambda + cloudfront
S3
Static Site
generator
(middleman)
CloudFrontLambda

14. The code
70 lines of code
https://goo.gl/J2dw5V

15. Another use case
S3 +
config file +
template +
lambda
=
auto magic template rendering

16. pre lambda: run a program in the cloud
lambda: program the cloud

17. and more coming...
● AWS API Gateway + lambda
● more static site generator
○ https://github.com/contentful-labs/contentful-aws-
lambda-static

18. thank you
@hungryblank @contentful