Serverless Java on AWS

An airhacks.fm conversation with Mark Sailes (@MarkSailes3) about:

the BBC micro computer with a cassette, the PRINT 10, 386, 486 and a Pentium with an internet connection, learning Apache, using Mandrake Linux at university, a first web page - a huge experience, PHP, MySQL and "we don't need transactions", the fantastic phpMyAdmin, using Java, C++ and Python at the university, the great JavaDoc, Eclipse and NetBeans, the great Java collection JavaDoc, migrating from java.util.Vector to java.util.List, working as backend junior Java developer, from junior over senior to team lead, 3% improvement with 97% rewrite, working for AWS, "Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less" book, the WebLogic build engineer, pre pooling EJBs, Hey Enterprise EJB Developers Now Is The Time To Go Serverless, Lambda with API Gateway is a transition to Event Driven Architectures, Using AWS Lambda with an Application Load Balancer, cloud native, event driven architectures with AWS Lambda and Java, testable, asynchronous AWS Lambda, the serverless Kafka on AWS, archive and replay with Amazon Event Bridge, fast cold starts with AWS Lambda, milliseconds invocations with AWS Lambda, testing asynchronous AWS Lambda with JUnit, the limitations of mocking, AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) and AWS SAM CLI, swapping out Lambdas with SAM, describing AWS infrastructure with CDK, no YAML deployments with CDK, shareable infrastructure with compilable Java code, AWS CDK constructs--reusable cloud pieces

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