Serverless at Cancer Research UK

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Serverless London - May 2020 (virtual)

Luke Hedger

Serverless Donations

  • Every penny matters: 82p in every £1
  • Daily and annual traffic patterns
  • Infrastructure is not our product

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Infra

Product

Architecture

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Continuous Delivery

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our code is always in a deployable state

Feature development workflow

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Monorepo

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  • Everything as Code
  • All code in one place
  • Yarn Workspaces + Lambda Layers

Results (so far)

  • Reduced infrastructure bill by ££££s
  • Reduced release time from hours to minutes and multiple people to two bots
  • Increased release frequency from monthly to daily

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Resources

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Serverless at CRUK

By Luke

Serverless at CRUK

A quick tour of how we are using Serverless at Cancer Research UK

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