Function as a Service (FaaS) Courses and Certifications

Cloud Computing Basics (Cloud 101)

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Explore cloud computing fundamentals, including deployment models, hosting scenarios, and major platforms. Gain insights into future trends like serverless computing and IoT.

• Coursera
• 8 hours 13 minutes
• On-Demand
• Paid Course

Devoxx

Serverless - Not so FaaS

Explore serverless computing, including MBaaS and FaaS, as the next step from microservices. Understand the landscape, benefits, and challenges of this emerging technology for cloud-native application architectures.

• YouTube
• 51 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Devoxx

Streaming Data for the Cloud Native Generation

Explore event-driven architectures, stream processing, and data management in cloud-native systems. Learn how to capture, stream, and process events, and manage stateful operations in microservices and FaaS environments.

• YouTube
• 40 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

GOTO Conferences

An Intro to Project Riff - A FaaS Built on Top of Knative

Explore Knative and Project riff for serverless, function-based applications on Kubernetes. Learn about building, serving, and connecting code without worrying about containerization or scaling.

• YouTube
• 50 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

USENIX

Serverless in the Wild - Characterizing and Optimizing the Serverless Workload

Explore serverless computing workloads, challenges, and optimization strategies in cloud environments. Gain insights into Azure Functions' production data and learn about innovative resource management policies.

• YouTube
• 23 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Red Hat

Containers, Microservices, Serverless - On Being Serverless or Serverful

Explore the evolution of microservices, from Netflix OSS to service mesh with Envoy and Istio. Learn about serverless architecture and building a FaaS platform using Apache OpenWhisk on OpenShift.

• YouTube
• 52 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Docker

Docker Containers in a Serverless World

Explore serverless frameworks OpenFaas, Nuclio, and FN, learning to create, deploy, and invoke functions while understanding Docker's role in each and their integration with KNative on Kubernetes.

• YouTube
• 49 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

The FaaS and the Curious - AWS Lambda Threat Modeling

Explore AWS Lambda threat modeling techniques and security considerations for serverless architectures in this comprehensive analysis of Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) platforms.

• YouTube
• 59 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Devoxx

Serverless Java in Action with Fn

Hands-on introduction to Fn, an open-source FaaS platform, focusing on writing, testing, and deploying Java functions. Covers Spring Cloud Function, Serverless Kotlin, and function orchestration using Fn Flow API.

• YouTube
• 56 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

BSidesLV

Microservices and FaaS for Offensive Security

Explore offensive security using microservices and FaaS, covering Lambda, Google Cloud, IBM OpenWhisk, and more. Learn practical applications and improvements for cybersecurity projects.

• YouTube
• 23 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

USENIX

Faastlane - Accelerating Function-as-a-Service Workflows

Accelerating FaaS workflows by executing functions as threads, providing lightweight isolation, and dynamically identifying parallelism opportunities to enhance performance and reduce latency.

• YouTube
• 15 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

How Fast is FaaS? Reducing Cold Start Times in Knative

Explore Knative's autoscaling, cold start challenges, and innovative solutions like container pausing to enhance serverless performance and reduce latency in cloud-native systems.

• YouTube
• 31 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Serverless WebAssembly for Compute-Intensive Workloads

Explore serverless WebAssembly for building scalable APIs with near-zero initialization times and support for multiple languages, demonstrated through a bioinformatics analysis function.

• YouTube
• 16 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Low-Latency and Session-Oriented Serverless Workflows

Explore design strategies for low-latency serverless applications, including function co-location, process-level isolation, and persistent functions for efficient state management across invocations.

• YouTube
• 20 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Hands-On Stateful Serverless Applications with K8s and Stateful Functions

Learn to build consistent stateful serverless applications using Stateful Functions framework. Explore step-by-step deployment, event tracking, and running stateful ML classifiers on popular FaaS platforms.

• YouTube
• 35 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk