The AWS Developers Podcast

In this episode, Dave is joined by special co-host Brooke Jaimeson, and Justin Callison, General Manager AWS Step Functions. AWS Step Functions is a visual workflow service that helps developers use AWS services to build distributed applications, automate processes, orchestrate microservices, and create data and machine learning pipelines. Justin walks us through what is new in Step Functions, the Workflow Studio tool, how customers are using the service today, and the new distributed map support launched at re:Invent 2022. Justin on Twitter: https://twitter.com/justincallison Justin on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/justin-callison Brooke’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/brooke_jamieson Brooke’s TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@brookebytes Brooke’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brooke.bytes/ Brooke on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brookejamieson/ [BLOG] Step Functions Distributed Map – A Serverless Solution for Large-Scale Parallel Data Processing - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/step-functions-distributed-map-a-serverless-solution-for-large-scale-parallel-data-processing [DOCS] Serverless Land - Serverless Workflows Collection - https://serverlessland.com/workflows [DOCS] Serverless Land - Distributed Map Reduce Weather Analysis Workflow - https://serverlessland.com/workflows/distributed-map-weather-anaysis [PORTAL] AWS Step Functions - https://aws.amazon.com/step-functions/ [WORKSHOP] The AWS Step Functions Workshop - https://catalog.workshops.aws/stepfunctions/en-US/ [YOUTUBE] AWS re:Invent 2022 - [NEW] Accelerate Workloads Using Parallelism with Step Functions and Lambda (API205) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SG6_oy72hh4&ab_channel=AWSEvents Subscribe: Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/f8bf7630-2521-4b40-be90-c46a9222c159/aws-developers-podcast Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/aws-developers-podcast/id1574162669 Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zb3VuZGNsb3VkLmNvbS91c2Vycy9zb3VuZGNsb3VkOnVzZXJzOjk5NDM2MzU0OS9zb3VuZHMucnNz Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7rQjgnBvuyr18K03tnEHBI TuneIn: https://tunein.com/podcasts/Technology-Podcasts/AWS-Developers-Podcast-p1461814/ RSS Feed: https://feeds.soundcloud

In this episode, Emily and Dave chat with Prasad Pandit, Principal Product Manager, RDS Open Source. Prasad walks us through some of the recent performance innovations in Amazon’s Relational Database Service (RDS) as well as how MySQL writes data today. He then discusses the re:Invent 2022 launch of RDS Optimized Writes, which can help improve write throughput by up to 2x at no additional cost. RDS Optimized Writes is especially useful for MySQL customers with write-intensive database workloads, commonly found in applications such as digital payments, financial trading, and online gaming. Prasad on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prasadprofile/ [BLOG] Amazon RDS Optimized Writes enables up to 2x higher write throughput at no additional cost - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/11/amazon-rds-optimized-writes-2x-higher-write-throughput-no-cost/ [DOCS] Improving write performance with Amazon RDS Optimized Writes - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/rds-optimized-writes.html [PORTAL] Amazon RDS for MySQL https://aws.amazon.com/rds/mysql/ [YOUTUBE] Understanding Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMzCI7S1P9M Subscribe: Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/f8bf7630-2521-4b40-be90-c46a9222c159/aws-developers-podcast Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/aws-developers-podcast/id1574162669 Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zb3VuZGNsb3VkLmNvbS91c2Vycy9zb3VuZGNsb3VkOnVzZXJzOjk5NDM2MzU0OS9zb3VuZHMucnNz Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7rQjgnBvuyr18K03tnEHBI TuneIn: https://tunein.com/podcasts/Technology-Podcasts/AWS-Developers-Podcast-p1461814/ RSS Feed: https://feeds.soundcloud

In this episode, Dave chats with Vaibhav Khandelwal, Sr. Technical Product Manager for AWS DMS. The AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) helps customers securely migrate their databases to AWS with minimal downtime. Since 2016, AWS DMS has migrated more than 800,000 databases and currently supports over 20+ database and analytics engines. Vaibhav’s team recently launched the AWS DMS Schema Conversion service, which streamlines database migrations by making schema assessment and conversion available directly inside AWS DMS. Vaibhav walks us through an overview of DMS, how developers can get started with this new managed service, and what his team is focusing on delivering next. Database and Analytics Team on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/aws-databases/ [BLOG] A New Fully Managed Schema Conversion in AWS Database Migration Service - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-a-fully-managed-schema-conversion-in-aws-database-migration-service/ [DOCS] AWS Database Migration Service User Guide - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/dms/latest/userguide/Welcome.html [YOUTUBE] Introduction to the DMS Schema Conversion - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ki3r92Cfqwk Subscribe: Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/f8bf7630-2521-4b40-be90-c46a9222c159/aws-developers-podcast Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/aws-developers-podcast/id1574162669 Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zb3VuZGNsb3VkLmNvbS91c2Vycy9zb3VuZGNsb3VkOnVzZXJzOjk5NDM2MzU0OS9zb3VuZHMucnNz Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7rQjgnBvuyr18K03tnEHBI TuneIn: https://tunein.com/podcasts/Technology-Podcasts/AWS-Developers-Podcast-p1461814/ RSS Feed: https://feeds.soundcloud

In this episode, Emily and Dave catch up with Brice Pelle, Principal Product Manager for AWS Appsync. AppSync is a managed service that helps simplify data access, and the creation of scalable GraphQL APIs. Brice walks us through everything new in Appsync for developers post re:Invent 2022! This includes the ability to now write GraphQL APIs using JavaScript, the availability of two new libraries, and a new test API to simplify local development and testing. Brice on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BricePelle [DOCS] AWS AppSync Developer Guide - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/appsync/latest/devguide/what-is-appsync.html [DOCS] AWS AppSync JavaScript Resolver Developer Guide - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/appsync/latest/devguide/tutorials-js.html [GITHUB] AWS AppSync JavaScript SDK - https://github.com/awslabs/aws-mobile-appsync-sdk-js [PODCAST] AWS Developers Podcast - Episode 026 - AWS AppSync with Brice Pelle - https://open.spotify.com/episode/52FkI83nj99YwbNGGVIXOD [PODCAST] She's Off Script Podcast - https://www.serwaaadjeipelle.com/the-podcast/ [PORTAL] AWS AppSync - https://aws.amazon.com/appsync/ Subscribe: Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/f8bf7630-2521-4b40-be90-c46a9222c159/aws-developers-podcast Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/aws-developers-podcast/id1574162669 Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zb3VuZGNsb3VkLmNvbS91c2Vycy9zb3VuZGNsb3VkOnVzZXJzOjk5NDM2MzU0OS9zb3VuZHMucnNz Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7rQjgnBvuyr18K03tnEHBI TuneIn: https://tunein.com/podcasts/Technology-Podcasts/AWS-Developers-Podcast-p1461814/ RSS Feed: https://feeds.soundcloud

In this episode, Dave is joined by special co-host Brooke Jaimeson, and Laura Hyatt, Global Solution Architect for AWS Resilience Hub. Laura shares her knowledge on building resilient architectures in the AWS cloud, defining good recovery time objectives (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO) for your organization, the difference between reliability and resiliency in modern apps, how to handle disruptions across your applications and even regions, as well as a day in the life of an AWS solutions architect! Laura’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/LauraJHyatt Laura on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laura-hyatt/ Brooke’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/brooke_jamieson Brooke’s TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@brookebytes Brooke’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brooke.bytes/ Brooke on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brookejamieson/ [BLOG] AWS Architecture Blog - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/ [TRAINING] AWS Skill Builder - Introduction to AWS Resilience Hub - https://explore.skillbuilder.aws/learn/course/external/view/elearning/14679/introduction-to-aws-resilience-hub [TRAINING] AWS Workshops - Monitoring Resilient Architectures With AWS Resilience Hub - https://workshops.aws/card/Monitoring%20Resilient%20Architectures%20With%20AWS%20Resilience%20Hub [PORTAL] AWS Resilience Hub - https://aws.amazon.com/resilience-hub/ [PORTAL] AWS Application Composer (Preview) - https://aws.amazon.com/application-composer/ Subscribe: Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/f8bf7630-2521-4b40-be90-c46a9222c159/aws-developers-podcast Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/aws-developers-podcast/id1574162669 Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zb3VuZGNsb3VkLmNvbS91c2Vycy9zb3VuZGNsb3VkOnVzZXJzOjk5NDM2MzU0OS9zb3VuZHMucnNz Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7rQjgnBvuyr18K03tnEHBI TuneIn: https://tunein.com/podcasts/Technology-Podcasts/AWS-Developers-Podcast-p1461814/ RSS Feed: https://feeds.soundcloud

In this episode, Emily and Dave chat with Namrata Shah, Managing Director, PwC, about all things DevOps. Namrata has over two decades of consulting experience where she managed very large Developers teams. In this episode she shares her DevOps journey through the years, what developers look for in the real world around DevOps, what an ideal DevOps Tool would be that doesn’t exist today, and what the future of AIOps, NoOps, and DevOps itself might look like. Namrata on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/namratashah/ Namrata’s YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyfbIg_2svVrssNUExEI6fw Namrata’s AWS Hero Page: https://aws.amazon.com/developer/community/heroes/namrata-shah/ Namrata’s Udemy Courses: https://www.udemy.com/user/namrata-180/ Subscribe: Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/f8bf7630-2521-4b40-be90-c46a9222c159/aws-developers-podcast Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/aws-developers-podcast/id1574162669 Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zb3VuZGNsb3VkLmNvbS91c2Vycy9zb3VuZGNsb3VkOnVzZXJzOjk5NDM2MzU0OS9zb3VuZHMucnNz Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7rQjgnBvuyr18K03tnEHBI TuneIn: https://tunein.com/podcasts/Technology-Podcasts/AWS-Developers-Podcast-p1461814/ RSS Feed: https://feeds.soundcloud

In this episode, Emily and Dave chat with John Dalton, Sr. Product Manager, Amazon RDS Open Source, and Jonathan Katz, Principal PMT, Amazon RDS Open Source, about the recent launch of Trusted Language Extensions PostgreSQL. Trusted Language Extensions for PostgreSQL is an open source development kit for building PostgreSQL extensions that allows developers to build high performance PostgreSQL extensions and safely run them on your RDS for PostgreSQL DB instance. By using Trusted Language Extensions (TLE) for PostgreSQL, developers can create PostgreSQL extensions that follow the documented approach for extending PostgreSQL functionality. Both Johns discuss building this new service update, and their approach to open source. [BLOG] New – Trusted Language Extensions for PostgreSQL on Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-trusted-language-extensions-for-postgresql-on-amazon-aurora-and-amazon-rds/ [BLOG] Announcing Trusted Language Extensions for PostgreSQL on Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/11/trusted-language-extensions-postgresql-amazon-aurora-rds/ [DOCS] Working with Trusted Language Extensions for PostgreSQL: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/PostgreSQL_trusted_language_extension.html [GITHUB] Open Source Framework for Building Trusted Language Extensions for PostgreSQL: https://github.com/aws/pg_tle [PORTAL] Amazon Aurora: https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/ [PORTAL] Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL: https://aws.amazon.com/rds/postgresql/ Subscribe: Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/f8bf7630-2521-4b40-be90-c46a9222c159/aws-developers-podcast Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/aws-developers-podcast/id1574162669 Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zb3VuZGNsb3VkLmNvbS91c2Vycy9zb3VuZGNsb3VkOnVzZXJzOjk5NDM2MzU0OS9zb3VuZHMucnNz Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7rQjgnBvuyr18K03tnEHBI TuneIn: https://tunein.com/podcasts/Technology-Podcasts/AWS-Developers-Podcast-p1461814/ RSS Feed: https://feeds.soundcloud

In this episode, Dave and Emily chat with Srinivas Iragavarapu, Sr. SDM for Amazon CodeWhisperer. Designed to improve developer productivity, Amazon CodeWhisperer provides machine learning (ML)–powered code recommendations to accelerate development of C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, and TypeScript applications. The service integrates with multiple integrated development environments (IDEs), including JetBrains (IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, and WebStorm), Visual Studio Code, AWS Cloud9, and the AWS Lambda console, and helps developers write code faster by generating entire functions and logical blocks of code—often consisting of more than 10–15 lines of code. Srinivas discusses the recent re:Invent 2022 developer preview launch, how the team built Code Whisperer, and how developers can take advantage of the service today. Srinivas on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/isvas/ Getting Started with Amazon CodeWhisperer: https://aws.amazon.com/codewhisperer/ [DOCS] Working with Amazon CodeWhisperer: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/toolkit-for-vscode/latest/userguide/codewhisperer.html [WORKSHOP] Amazon CodeWhisperer Workshop https://catalog.us-east-1.prod.workshops.aws/workshops/a33a5d69-1417-4d5f-acc9-ae5c7fba665b/en-US [YOUTUBE] Get Started with Amazon CodeWhisperer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_ud69lWKeg&ab_channel=AmazonWebServices Subscribe: Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/f8bf7630-2521-4b40-be90-c46a9222c159/aws-developers-podcast Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/aws-developers-podcast/id1574162669 Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zb3VuZGNsb3VkLmNvbS91c2Vycy9zb3VuZGNsb3VkOnVzZXJzOjk5NDM2MzU0OS9zb3VuZHMucnNz Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7rQjgnBvuyr18K03tnEHBI TuneIn: https://tunein.com/podcasts/Technology-Podcasts/AWS-Developers-Podcast-p1461814/ RSS Feed: https://feeds.soundcloud

In this episode, Emily and Dave chat with Harry Mower, GM for AWS DevOps Tools, and Doug Clauson, Principal Product Manager Technical for AWS DevTools. Amazon CodeCatalyst is a unified software development and delivery service, that enables software development teams to quickly and easily plan, develop, collaborate on, build, and deliver applications on AWS, reducing friction throughout the development lifecycle. Harry and Doug walk us through this new product announcement, how the idea for a unified developer environment started inside AWS, how their team thinks about developer experience, lessons learned building such a product, and how you can get started with Amazon CodeCatalyst today. Harry on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harrymower/ Doug on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/doug-clauson/ [BLOG] Announcing Amazon CodeCatalyst, a Unified Software Development Service (Preview) - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/announcing-amazon-codecatalyst-preview-a-unified-software-development-service/ Sign up for Code Catalyst Here: https://codecatalyst.aws/explore AWS Repost – Feedback - https://www.repost.aws/ Subscribe: Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/f8bf7630-2521-4b40-be90-c46a9222c159/aws-developers-podcast Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/aws-developers-podcast/id1574162669 Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zb3VuZGNsb3VkLmNvbS91c2Vycy9zb3VuZGNsb3VkOnVzZXJzOjk5NDM2MzU0OS9zb3VuZHMucnNz Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7rQjgnBvuyr18K03tnEHBI TuneIn: https://tunein.com/podcasts/Technology-Podcasts/AWS-Developers-Podcast-p1461814/ RSS Feed: https://feeds.soundcloud

In this episode, Emily and Dave chat with Tarun Rai Madan, Sr. Product Manager for AWS Lambda. AWS Lambda SnapStart for Java offers up to 10x faster function startup performance at no extra cost. Lambda SnapStart is a performance optimization that makes it easier for you to build highly responsive and scalable Java applications using AWS Lambda, without having to provision resources or spend time and effort implementing complex performance optimizations. Tarun walks us through what this new feature means for developers, how the Lambda team was able to create such improved performance, and how developers can enable it today. Tarun on Twitter: https://twitter.com/tarun_trm [BLOG] Announcing AWS Lambda SnapStart for Java Functions: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/11/aws-lambda-snapstart-java-functions/ [BLOG] Accelerate Your Lambda Functions with Lambda SnapStart: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-accelerate-your-lambda-functions-with-lambda-snapstart/ [DOCS] AWS Lambda Developer Guide: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/welcome.html [VIDEO] Introducing AWS Lambda SnapStart: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgxvrZLI1mc&feature=youtu.be Car Picks: Tarun - Red Bull Formula 1 RB18: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Bull_RB18 Emily - 1924 Rolls Royce Phantom: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_Phantom_I Dave - Lamborghini Countach: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamborghini_Countach Subscribe: Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/f8bf7630-2521-4b40-be90-c46a9222c159/aws-developers-podcast Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/aws-developers-podcast/id1574162669 Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zb3VuZGNsb3VkLmNvbS91c2Vycy9zb3VuZGNsb3VkOnVzZXJzOjk5NDM2MzU0OS9zb3VuZHMucnNz Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7rQjgnBvuyr18K03tnEHBI TuneIn: https://tunein.com/podcasts/Technology-Podcasts/AWS-Developers-Podcast-p1461814/ RSS Feed: https://feeds.soundcloud