Serverless computing allow developers to write small, self-contained pieces of code that are focused on the problems they are trying to solve rather than on how to run the code itself. They also provide zero to infinity scalability based on your application's demand.

When paired with Apache Kafka, Serverless can be used to build complex pipelines to handle all kinds of workloads. We will explore different patterns you can use to architecture your solution and when to best use each of them.

The content of this presentation is based on lessons we learned while building a scalable automated pipeline to deploy Open edX, a learning management system, into Kubernetes. You can learn more about the project at https://open.edx.org/get-started/get-started-self-managed/#try-open-edx.

- Benefits of using message passing architecture

- Different architecture patterns for combining Serverless functions

- Live demo showing how to apply the patterns to build an image processing pipeline

Deploying learning software platform w/ Serverless & Apache Kafka