Michael Walmsley
AWS Solution Architect (Serverless Specialist) at Accenture
Michael is a global technical architect at Accenture's Asset Engineering Hub in Melbourne, Australia. He has been disrupting Enterprise thinking since 2019, focusing on AWS Serverless and Event-Driven Architectures. He is passionate about Well-Architected Frameworks and is a frequent contributor to the AWS Lambda Powertools open source project, which he feels is essential for creating reliable AWS Lambda services.
You've built your serverless application, deployed it with ease, and it's humming along smoothly. But as your user base grows and event volumes soar, you encounter scalability boundaries - performance bottlenecks, throttling, and chaos. Serverless may seem boundless, but those invisible barriers bite hard when you are least prepared!
In this talk, I'll share practical strategies and proven architectural patterns to help you conquer scalability challenges. Drawing from my experience building high-scale, event-driven systems, I'll explore real-world use cases and the lessons I've learned along the way.
By the end of this session, you'll have a comprehensive understanding of serverless scalability boundaries and a robust toolkit of strategies to future-proof your event-driven architectures. Whether you're building greenfield applications or optimizing existing systems, this talk will equip you with the knowledge and confidence to unleash the true potential of serverless scalability.
