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

Jez Humble - https://www.continuousdelivery.com/

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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

• Pence in the pound
• Our research
• Continuous delivery
• Yarn Workspace X Lambda Layers

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