Davide de Paolis

Engineering Manager @sevdesk

Bio

Engineering Manager, AWS Community Builder, serverless aficionado, and outdoor freak. Originally from Italy, Davide de Paolis taught himself software engineering in his twenties after a life-changing sabbatical in New Zealand. With over 20 years of experience in the tech industry, he’s been living and working in Germany since 2013. He began his journey building the both beloved and notorious Flash websites and expanded into Java, Unity3D/C#, TypeScript, Node.js, and React, before finding his passion in cloud engineering and platform work. Since 2018, he has been leading teams that build strategic services and internal platforms to support scale and developer productivity. Obsessed with simplicity and effectiveness, he loves solving problems with code and at the bouldering wall.

Sessions

ACD308

Serverless vs Kubernetes: the final showdown

Room: Room 1 | Time: 16:00 | Duration: 60

There is no silver bullet!’—while true, that won’t stop us from stepping into the ring to argue over these two opinionated and polarising approaches to cloud computing. In this lively, no-holds-barred debate, we’ll spar over complexity, scalability, costs, and real-world use cases. Whether you’re Team Serverless, Team Kubernetes, or still undecided, join us as we wrestle with the tradeoffs that come with each model. Together, we’ll unpack the biases and prejudices we all bring to architecture decisions, challenge common assumptions, and dive into critical topics like security, legacy application modernization, and how each approach fits into event-driven architectures.

Davide de Paolis

Engineering Manager @sevdesk

Damiano Giorgi

Principal Solutions Architect @beSharp spa | AWS Community Builder