from the Regency Center in San Francisco it's the queue covering serverless con San Francisco 2018 brought to you by silicon ankle media upstream in a minute you're watching the cubes coverage of thanks for joining me yeah thanks all right so you work for a company server lists we're in a conference about server list help us explain a little bit your background your company yeah well I guess I'll start with the capital s service the only way I know to distinguish so service got its start when Austin Collins he was an AWS community hero he decided that he wanted to use this new lambda thing to launch some of his own side projects so he built the service framework he did not expect for it to completely skyrocket I think we have like somewhere close to thirty thousand github stars it's like 25 28 at this point and it really kind of like this whole surrealist movement lowercase s now started to build up around AWS lambda and like all of the major cloud providers started launching their own service solutions right and so I got involved with serverless calm because I guess I had been in the tech industry in San Francisco for a while I think I have a pretty non-traditional background for someone who's at a developer tools company I've kind of done things all over the map and right now what I do primarily at service is write a lot of their content you know think that they tweet out things that are in their newsletter on their blog a lot of tech writing and stuff like that yeah you know some techies you know they it's like oh wait that's like marketing stuff we can't do this you give a lightning talk here maybe give give our audience a little bit of a flavor what you talked about there yeah I mean I think one of the biggest appeals to me about service as a company was how passionate everyone there was about the fact that you didn't need to have an engineering background to be able to develop software and we have people in our company who have like film backgrounds who have fashion backgrounds and they're working at a tech company and so really what my talk was about is I deploy applications and that's because technologies like Surrealists really lower the barrier to entry for people who were trying to get involved in this stuff so I was able to deploy a fully working applications that even having to coat that much and I think that it's something really exciting that not a lot of people are talking about right yeah and you're something I'm a little older than you when I went to school it's like we called it programming and that was like you know you wrote code which meant you know you got some big book you look like you know lines of code and you execute this now it's like you know well coding you take a bunch of stuff you put it together you know it looks you know very different from you know what I learned to program back in the day and therefore you know right you don't need a CS major necessarily to be able to get some doing and several it sounds like you know is lowers that bar even more right yeah I mean like one of the things is I do feel like AWS lambda for instance that already makes it so much easier to be able to you know code something and publicly host it you don't have to worry about setting up your own server isn't all that stuff it also makes it a lot cheaper to get started so if you just have like this side project or a hackathon project you know super easy to kind of just deploy that to anyone a cool thing that I feel like other developer tools like the serverless framework does is make it so that you don't even have to understand AWS so you can leverage the power of not having to administer your own servers and also not have to understand like confirmation you know you can just kind of like few lines of code and get it done tell us a little bit of your journey you know what what have you you build with it with the server with stuff how do you get involved in it what can you do with it yeah I mean uh whenever you say how do you get involved you mean just me or just like any person out there so start with a personal oh yeah what what's your recommendation to others yeah I mean I would say there are so many tutorials available that actually start from the basics and one thing that's already started happening is service is attracting all different kinds of people so I would say just start looking online for tutorials like even I've written some that cover everything from how do you set up an AWS account in the first place - how do you put this on AWS and that sort of thing also I think a thing that's really important whenever you take on any sort of side project like this is why does it matter to you and I think for me that reason is I don't have a lot of time you know life is short and there are lots of things I do it we're just like everyone that are so mundane and so routine and I do them over and over and those are perfect candidates for automation and so anytime you have something in your life like that that you feel like you'll be really motivated to never have to do again I feel like it's a great reason to want to learn all right Andrea one of the other things you're involved with here is there's women who serve a lists event that that is happening you know later today so you know we love supporting at Silicon angle in the cube a lot of these women events you know especially here in the Bay Area but all over the place so gets a little bit of insight as to what's happening at this event yeah so I feel like you know one thing that a lot of women in the tech industry can't help but notice is that it's pretty male-dominated and I think that it makes it really important then to try and create community and try to bring more women into the space make it feel like it's really safe and fun place to be for women so I've been throwing these women who serve us happy hours and we're gonna have one tonight after serverless comp so if you're really excited if anyone wanted to come also like keep on event right because we'll be throwing more of them and I hope to see everyone there who can come alright last thing if people want to find out more about women who serve or less about I believe server luscom is the website for your company that's easy as a matter of fact yeah I think in the early days I grabbed us one of the stickers from your company just because I thought it was about serverless in general so alright you know pretty well fused together from a from a branding standpoint yeah yeah I would say that the server list calm and surrealist movement distinction is sort of a blessing and a curse on the one hand it makes it a little bit hard to talk about one or the other you can kind of get them mixed up on the other hand it's been really nice for us to be able to see like all of the excitement that's kind of come out of service and being able to educate people so all right Andrew really appreciate you joining us shit sharing your story as to have somebody you don't have to be in a hardcore a you know developer to be able to get yeah and if anyone makes an application who thought they couldn't code I would love to hear about it yeah and we also love to hear about it here on our program so of course reach out to us the cube dot that's the website I'm just apps to on Twitter always appreciate the feedback love to hear these stories about people using phenomenal technology I'm Stu Mittleman and thanks so much for watching the Q [Music]