My name is Dan Erez and I'm a seasoned architect and tech lead. I've worked in enterprises and startups (one acquired by VMWare) and lately been working on cloud modernizations and DevOps related innovations. I also write technical blog posts (dan.erez@medium), speak at conferences around the world and am an avid homebrewer (not necessarily in that order).

Many serverless functions read and write from/to databases. How do these two play together and what are the potential obstacles? For example, serverless are highly scalable, but DB connections are limited. There are many options one can use to seamlessly work with databases while using serverless functions - RDS proxy, Data API and more. In this talk I shall review your options and share some best practices along with relevant code samples..