# Staying together by breaking apart: How DevOps can thrive in a world of social distancing and serverless From [TechStrong Con](https://digitalanarchist.com/videos/techstrong-con-virtual-summit/nocnica-fee-stay-together-by-breaking-apart-how-devops-can-thrive-in-a-world-of-social-distancing-serverless) For serverless, the name of the game is AWS Lambda S3, DynamoDB are implementations of serverless Monolith to Tower of Babel Testing is nonexistent in the default process - a lot of processes start with spinning up servers Document the _why_: create documentation on _why_ something was built the way it was. - Radical honesty: why did you REALLY create it - Accept experimentation: accept that some of your users will test some of your code Trust - Make space in budgets for experimentation - Use separate accounts Infrastructure as Code - Putting things in code instead of a manual process document - CloudFormation Testing is possible! - Canary testing - 10% of my lambdas, then roll back - Plan ahead for observability ## Citation ``` [^techstrong]: Fee, N. (2020). _Staying together by breaking apart: How DevOps can thrive in a world of social distancing and serverless._ TechStrong Con 2020. Retrieved from https://digitalanarchist.com/videos/techstrong-con-virtual-summit/nocnica-fee-stay-together-by-breaking-apart-how-devops-can-thrive-in-a-world-of-social-distancing-serverless ```