Ewan Slater

"Serverless" is a hot topic right now, and something that a lot of developers are keen to try.

A lot of focus has been on implementations that are proprietary to and only run on a single provider's cloud.

In this talk, I'll show how you can develop "serverless" functions on your laptop, with an open source platform and run them where you like.

However, if you attend a Serverless event, you may come away with the impression that it's a world of proprietary walled gardens from the major cloud providers.

In this talk I will cover:

• The case for open source serverless frameworks in general
• The fnproject (fnproject.io) in particular
• Implementing serverless Shakespeare on a laptop

Honey I shrunk the container! Containers are increasingly the standard mechanism for packaging, delivering and deploying software.

They provide a simpler, more lightweight architecturally significant form of virtualisation than VMs. They are a natural candidate for running microservices. But can we do better?

If we can simplify our containers, we can shrink them further, improving: - performance - security - management

In this talk I'll be discussing: - advantages of microcontainers over containers - how to build and use microcontainers - Smith (https://github.com/oracle/smith) - a microcontainer builder from Oracle - Crashcart - (https://github.com/oracle/crashcart) a tool for debugging microcontainers (and containers)