The AWS Developers Podcast

In this episode Dave and Emily chat with Ross Barich, Principal Developer Community Manager at Amazon Web Services, and owner of the AWS Heroes program. The AWS Heroes program, and its associated program Community Builders, are part of Amazon’s AWS Developers Community recognition programs. These programs recognize members from across the globe, developers helping the community grow, mentoring other developers, creating educational content, and active both online and at in person events. Ross on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rossbarich Ross on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rossbarich/ Connect with a Hero: https://amzn.to/3mIiZRF Follow a Hero: https://bit.ly/3BgGGEK Learn from Heroes: https://amzn.to/3ksmp8t ----------- AWS Community Builders: https://amzn.to/3sRkKgt AWS Community Builders Open Enrollment (Apply by Aug 31st!): https://bit.ly/2WnI2yV ----------- Connect with Us on Twitter: Emily on Twitter: https://twitter.com/editingemily Dave on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thedavedev 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.com/users/soundcloud:users:994363549/sounds.rss

In this episode Emily and Dave continue the conversation with Memo Doring, Head of Developer Relations for Latin America (LATAM) at Amazon Web Services. The Latin America region is home to over 600 million, covering a diverse geography, people, and languages. In part two of this two-part conversation, Memo talks about his experience helping LATAM companies move to the cloud, the effects of the global pandemic, and some of the unique business opportunities that only exist in LATAM. Memo on Twitter: https://twitter.com/memodoring AWS Certification (Spanish): https://aws.amazon.com/es/certification/ AWS Certification (Portuguese): https://aws.amazon.com/pt/certification/ ----------- Connect with Us on Twitter: Emily on Twitter: https://twitter.com/editingemily Dave on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thedavedev 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.com/users/soundcloud:users:994363549/sounds.rss

In this episode Emily and Dave chat with Memo Doring, Head of Developer Relations for Latin America (LATAM) at Amazon Web Services. The Latin America region is home to over 600 million, covering a diverse geography, people and languages. In part one of this two-part conversation, Memo talks about his experience starting a new developer relations team in Latin America, being a Latino in tech, and the unique challenges of a developer community encompassing so many cultures. Memo on Twitter: https://twitter.com/memodoring Book mentioned - DevOps for Dummies by Emily Freeman: https://www.amazon.com/DevOps-Dummies-Computer-Tech/dp/1119552222/ ----------- Connect with Us on Twitter: Emily on Twitter: https://twitter.com/editingemily Dave on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thedavedev 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.com/users/soundcloud:users:994363549/sounds.rss

In this episode Emily and Dave chat with Luc van Donkersgoed, Lead Solution Software Engineer at the Dutch Postal Service, and a DevTools AWS Community Builder. Luc covers his journey of acquiring all 12 AWS certifications, his real-world approach to exam taking, and ideas on prototyping with the cloud. Luc on Twitter: https://twitter.com/donkersgood Luc’s AWS Solution Architect Professional Course: https://youtu.be/tv3eMiO0ACM Luc’s GitHub: https://github.com/donkersgoed Luc’s SciFi Book Author Recommendation – Patrick Rothfuss: https://www.amazon.com/Patrick-Rothfuss/e/B001DAHXZQ ----------- Connect with Us on Twitter: Emily on Twitter: https://twitter.com/editingemily Dave on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thedavedev ----------- 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.com/users/soundcloud:users:994363549/sounds.rss

In this episode Emily and Dave chat with Richard H. Boyd, Sr. Developer Advocate at Amazon Web Services for Developer Tools. Richard covers his software engineering journey, CI/CD processes at Amazon, and shares tips for creating productive cloud developer environments. ---------- Richard on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rchrdbyd Richard's Dev Blog: https://rboyd.dev/ Richard's Github: https://github.com/richardhboyd ----------- Richard's "Mediocre" Cloud9 Tips: https://github.com/richardhboyd/mediocre-cloud9 ----------- Clare Liguori's talk on automating continuous delivery pipelines at Amazon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngnMj1zbMPY ----------- Connect with Us on Twitter: Emily on Twitter: https://twitter.com/editingemily Dave on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thedavedev 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.com/users/soundcloud:users:994363549/sounds.rss

In this episode Dave chats again with Elad Ben-Israel, Principal Engineer at Amazon Web Services for the Cloud Development Kit (CDK). In part two of this two-part conversation, Elad talks about the current state of the CDK, the CDK community, Projen project, and the future of CDK. --- Elad on Twitter: twitter.com/emeshbi Elad’s GitHub.io: http://eladb.github.io/ --- AWS CDK Git: bit.ly/3yB3kWS CDK Patterns: http://cdkpatterns.com/ CDK 2.0 Dev Preview: amzn.to/3dW57Oq CDK Corner: amzn.to/3ho1B1r CDK.dev Slack: https://cdk.dev/ Projen: Projen - https://bit.ly/projengit --- Connect with Us on Twitter: Emily on Twitter: twitter.com/editingemily Dave on Twitter: twitter.com/thedavedev --- Subscribe: Amazon Music: music.amazon.com/podcasts/f8bf763…velopers-Podcast Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/aws-…st/id1574162669 Google Podcasts: podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly…S9zb3VuZHMucnNz Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/7rQjgnBvuyr18K03tnEHBI TuneIn: tunein.com/podcasts/Technology…s-Podcast-p1461814/ RSS Feed: tunein.com/podcasts/Technology…s-Podcast-p1461814/

In this episode Dave chats with Elad Ben-Israel, Principal Engineer at Amazon Web Services for the Cloud Development Kit (CDK). In part one of this two-part conversation, Elad talks about his time as a software engineer at Amazon, the creation of the Cloud Development Kit, and the philosophy behind JSII, a new framework that allows code in any language to naturally interact with JavaScript classes. Elad on Twitter: https://twitter.com/emeshbi Elad’s GitHub.io: https://eladb.github.io/ AWS CDK Git: https://bit.ly/3yB3kWS CDK Patterns: https://cdkpatterns.com/ CDK 2.0 Dev Preview: https://amzn.to/3dW57Oq CDK Corner: https://amzn.to/3ho1B1r CDK Labs: https://github.com/cdklabs/ JSII Git: https://github.com/aws/jsii The story behind the AWS CDK: https://amzn.to/3xug6GI Connect with Us on Twitter: Emily on Twitter: twitter.com/editingemily Dave on Twitter: twitter.com/thedavedev 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://tunein.com/podcasts/Technology-Podcasts/AWS-Developers-Podcast-p1461814/

In this episode Emily and Dave talk to Ali Spittel, who leads developer advocacy for AWS Amplify at Amazon. Ali has a passion for teaching others how to code, and helping them to become full-time developers. In her role at AWS, she works with mobile and web app creators on new tools that remove friction, and speed up development time. Ali on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ASpittel Ladybug Podcast: https://www.ladybug.dev/ AWS Amplify on Twitter: https://twitter.com/awsamplify AWS Amplify: https://docs.amplify.aws/ Amplify Discord Server: https://discord.gg/amplify Connect with Us on Twitter: Emily on Twitter: twitter.com/editingemily Dave on Twitter: twitter.com/thedavedev

In this episode Dave and Emily talk to David Nalley, a Principal Advocate at AWS for Open Source, and President of the Apache Software Foundation. David has been involved in open-source projects for decades, and humbly shares the lessons he has learned. David Nalley on Twitter: twitter.com/ke4qqq Apache Software Foundation on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheASF Innovating with Rust: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/innovating-with-rust/ Connect with Us on Twitter: Emily on Twitter: twitter.com/editingemily Dave on Twitter: twitter.com/thedavedev

In this episode Dave and Emily talk to Ken Collins, a Principal Engineer at Custom Ink, focused on DevOps and Ecommerce. Ken has done some interesting things with AWS Lambda and the Rails programming language when it comes to DevOps. Ken is also an AWS Serverless Hero and has created a blog series around real-world usage for Rails and Lambda. Ken's Info: Ken on Twitter: https://twitter.com/metaskills Custom Ink Technology https://twitter.com/custominktech Rails & Lambda with Lamby https://lamby.custominktech.com Ken's AWS Hero Page: https://aws.amazon.com/developer/community/heroes/ken-collins/ AWS Services Discussed: AWS Lambda: https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/ AWS CDK: https://aws.amazon.com/cdk/ Connect with Us on Twitter: Emily on Twitter: https://twitter.com/editingemily Dave on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thedavedev