Write Great Code
in the Cloud
Linda Nichols
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#serVAless
Virginia is for Lovers
JavaScript
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#jaVAscript
What is Serverless?*
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#serverless
* "Serverless" is a catchy, made-up, marketing term.
Kind of like, "Cloud."
What is Serverless?
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#serverless
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Fully-managed services
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Event-driven architectures
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Pay for only what you use
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Focus on applications
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Fewer wasted resources
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Less time writing redundant code
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Support for all* programming languages
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Less concern about infrastructure
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Built-in services and libraries means less code
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FaaS map to microservices
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Faster time to production
It's for Developers!
But there are servers?
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#serverfull
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Let's Talk About Serverless
and developers
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Developers Have Lots of Opinions
JavaScript
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They Love Process and Best Practices
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Favorite editor
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Favorite language
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Favorite frameworks
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Code formatting tool
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Formatting tool for code prettiness
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Real-time static code analysis
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Consistent rules and formatting
Developers Want (need):
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Vim
VS Code
Emacs
Atom
IntelliJ
Visual Studio
Eclipse
Notepad
Lint
Prettier
EditorConfig
pylint
eslint
Mechanical Keyboard
Stack Overflow
Java
.Net
npm
nuget
Ruby
CoffeeScript
Python
Rust
TypeScript
yarn
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- Pair-programming
- Your opinionated testing framework
- Unit tests
- Integration tests
- Code coverage up to 90%
You Must Test the Code:
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Wait, should we have written the tests before the code?!?
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- Use opinionated revision control system
- Current popular branching strategy
- Squash those insignificant commits
- Very detailed commit messages
- Branch names match the task
Then Commit the Code:
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Github
Gitlab
Visual Source Safe
Bitbucket
Gitflow
Github Flow
Subversion
CodeCommit
GitOps
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Pre-commit hook
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Push the code to a dev branch
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Issue a pull request
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Code analysis and builds are passing
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Make sure all of the tests are passing
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Request a code review
Merge the Code into Master:
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Your branch isn't up to date??
Why aren't the tests passing?
Why did you use tabs and not spaces?
Squash those commits!
The linter is failing!
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Sometimes, reviewers can be tough.
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OK, LGTM. Merged.
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Cue the CI/CD Tool:
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Travis CI
Azure Pipelines
Gitlab CI
Jenkins
Circle CI
Bamboo
CodeDeploy
Flux
Github Actions
LaunchDarkly
CodeBuild
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What about code written for the cloud?
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Pre-recorded Demo Time
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Unfortunately, no service is fully-managed enough to format, test, and debug your messy code.
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So, why do those who hold process so dear, throw it all away when they write code for the cloud?
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Because cloud development is new and can be a little scary.
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But all of the development practices that we love, still apply in the cloud.
and there are many, many new tools and services to support your process.
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My (highly opinionated) Toolset
- Static Code Analysis: Eslint
- Enforcing Style: EditorConfig
- Pre-commit Style: Prettier
- Revision Control: Github
- Testing: Mocha
- CI: Github Actions
- Editor: VS Code
- Language: JavaScript
- Cloud: Azure*
Demo
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https://www.github.com/lynnaloo/only-zuul
Who is the best Ghostbuster?
Conclusion
- No-ops does not mean no DevOps
- Online editors != revision control
- Love your linter
- Put your editor to work
- Testing in prod is not testing
- Abstraction is not CI/CD
- Don't abandon what's important
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Thank you
Credits
Travis Webb
YOLO Programmer
Write great code, in the cloud
By Linda Nichols
Write great code, in the cloud
Write great code, in the cloud - JS World 2021
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