#believeinserverless

Join Liz Fong-Jones, Field CTO at honeycomb.io and AWS Community Hero, as she dives into the intricacies of building a serverless SaaS application with a focus on understanding and optimizing cost-per-tenant. Her talk sheds light on the unique challenges and strategies involved in attributing costs effectively in a serverless environment.

Liz will take you through the story of Honeycomb, detailing its expansion from RAM-based operations to leveraging local SSDs and, ultimately, harnessing cloud storage and serverless functions for querying extensive data sets. Her journey highlights the pivotal role of serverless architecture in scaling applications efficiently while maintaining high performance.

The session goes deep into the operational aspects of managing lambda functions at scale, highlighting how to attribute costs and explain performance to individual tenants accurately—a critical aspect for SaaS providers aiming to optimize their billing models and ensure transparency. You'll gain valuable insights into the price/performance considerations of parallel workers across diverse computing ecosystems, including x86 and ARM, and how these decisions impact the overall cost structure of serverless SaaS applications.

This talk is essential for developers, architects, and technology leaders eager to understand the financial dynamics of serverless architectures and how to implement sophisticated cost attribution mechanisms. Whether you're refining your existing serverless solutions or building new ones, join Liz to enhance your approach to creating cost-effective, scalable, and high-performing serverless SaaS applications.