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Oct 21, 2022 • 25min

Episode 056 - React and Next.js for AWS Developers with Lee Robinson

In this episode, Dave chats with Lee Robinson, VP of Developer Experience at Vercel. The pair discuss Lee’s career as a developer, an overview of what the React framework is, and an introduction to Next.js for developers. Lee then discusses some of the challenges in modern web development, what trends frontend developers should be paying attention to currently, and his thoughts on the future of React. Next.js conf will be held on October 25th, and is free to attend online via https://nextjs.org/conf. Lee will be coming back next week, post conference, to share all the recent announcements coming out of Next.js conf! Lee on Twitter: https://twitter.com/leeerob Vercel on Twitter: https://twitter.com/vercel Next.js on Twitter: https://twitter.com/nextjs React on Twitter: https://twitter.com/reactjs Dave on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thedavedev Lee on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leeerob/ Lee on GitHub: https://github.com/leerob Lee’s Website: https://leerob.io/ [REGISTER] Next.js Conference: https://nextjs.org/conf [VIDEO] Pete Hunt’s Talk – React and Rethinking Best Practices: https://bit.ly/3z21KAl [VIDEO] Introduction to React Like It's 2025 by Lee Robinson: https://bit.ly/3SCYFh7 [BLOG] Rust Is the Future of JavaScript Infrastructure by Lee Robinson: https://leerob.io/blog/rust [BLOG] Past, Present, and Future of React State Management by Lee Robinson: https://leerob.io/blog/react-state-management [DOCS] Next.js - From JavaScript to React: https://nextjs.org/learn/foundations/from-javascript-to-react [DOCS] How Next.js Works: https://nextjs.org/learn/foundations/how-nextjs-works [DOCS] React.js Overview: https://reactjs.org/ 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
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Oct 6, 2022 • 28min

Episode 055 - DevOps 2022 with Chris Williams

In this episode, Dave and Emily continue their chat with Chris Williams, an AWS Community Hero, and Cloud Therapist at World Wide Technology. The trio discusses the current state of DevOps in 2022, the impacts of the pandemic, how DevOps is evolving, people vs. technology in moving DevOps forward, and tips for developers helping to better than own work culture. If you missed it, you can listen to part one of this conversation in Episode 054. Chris on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mistwire Emily on Twitter: https://twitter.com/editingemily Dave on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thedavedev Chris on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisfwilliams/ Chris’s Website: https://mistwire.com/ Chris’s AWS Hero Page: https://aws.amazon.com/developer/community/heroes/chris-williams/ vBrownBag Podcast: https://vbrownbag.com/ vBrownBag on Twitter: https://twitter.com/vBrownBag World Wide Technology on Twitter: https://twitter.com/wwt_inc 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
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Sep 30, 2022 • 25min

Episode 054 - Developer Community with Chris Williams

In this episode, Emily and Dave chat with Chris Williams, an AWS Community Hero, and Cloud Therapist at World Wide Technology. Chris walks us through his multi-decade career, from the start of computer virtualization, to breaking into Cloud Computing, and the history of Boston area developer communities. The trio share what changes they have seen the pandemic bring to communities, why they feel it is important to be part of your local developer community, and how true growth comes from learning with others. Chris on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mistwire Emily on Twitter: https://twitter.com/editingemily Dave on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thedavedev Chris on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisfwilliams/ Chris’s Website: https://mistwire.com/ Chris’s AWS Hero Page: https://aws.amazon.com/developer/community/heroes/chris-williams/ vBrownBag Podcast: https://vbrownbag.com/ vBrownBag on Twitter: https://twitter.com/vBrownBag World Wide Technology on Twitter: https://twitter.com/wwt_inc 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
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Sep 23, 2022 • 26min

Episode 053 - Developing for Observability and Sustainability with Danilo Poccia - Part 2

In this episode, Dave continues his chat with Danilo Poccia, Chief Evangelist, EMEA at Amazon Web Services. Amazon Web Services is focused on powering all operations with 100% renewable energy by 2025 and committed to achieving Amazon's goal of net-zero carbon by 2040. In this second part, Danilo shares specific guidance for developers around using storage and compute services, instance types, data retention, open-source libraries, and more to help maximize sustainability in their modern applications. You can listen to part one of this conversation in Episode 052. Danilo on Twitter: https://twitter.com/danilop Danilo on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dpoccia/ Danilo’s Website: https://www.danilop.net/ [CODE] Rust – Rayon, Data-parallelism Library: https://docs.rs/rayon/latest/rayon/ [CODE] Rust – Tokio, Async runtime for Rust: https://tokio.rs/ [GIT] Firecracker - Secure and Fast microVMs for Serverless: https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker [GIT] simdjson Library – Fast Parsing of Files in JSON: https://github.com/simdjson/simdjson [PORTAL] AWS Bottlerocket - Linux-based OS Purpose-built to Run Containers https://aws.amazon.com/bottlerocket/ [PORTAL] AWS Customer Carbon Footprint Tool: https://aws.amazon.com/aws-cost-management/aws-customer-carbon-footprint-tool/ [PORTAL] AWS Graviton Processor: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/graviton/ [PORTAL] AWS Inferentia - High Performance ML Inference Chip: https://aws.amazon.com/machine-learning/inferentia/ [PORTAL] Sustainability at AWS and Across Amazon: https://aws.amazon.com/sustainability [PORTAL] Sustainability Resources: https://aws.amazon.com/sustainability/resources [PORTAL] Sustainability in the Cloud: https://sustainability.aboutamazon.com/environment/the-cloud [YOUTUBE] AWS re:Invent 2021 - Architecting for Sustainability: https://youtu.be/3-Zq2W1-odU [YOUTUBE] AWS re:Invent 2021 - Sustainability in AWS Global Infrastructure: https://youtu.be/Dmz45WhXENs 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
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Sep 16, 2022 • 25min

Episode 052 - Developing for Observability and Sustainability with Danilo Poccia

In this episode, Dave chats with Danilo Poccia, Chief Evangelist, EMEA at Amazon Web Services. Danilo shares his journey from online trainer, solutions architect, to the Chief Evangelist at AWS for EMEA. Amazon Web Services is focused on powering all operations with 100% renewable energy by 2025 and committed to achieving Amazon's goal of net-zero carbon by 2040. Danilo shares what this initiative means from a developer perspective, including specific advice across AWS services, and the importance of observability to understand the sustainability of your own modern applications. Danilo on Twitter: https://twitter.com/danilop Danilo on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dpoccia/ Danilo’s Website: https://www.danilop.net/ [PORTAL] Sustainability at AWS and Across Amazon: https://aws.amazon.com/sustainability [PORTAL] Sustainability Resources: https://aws.amazon.com/sustainability/resources [PORTAL] Sustainability in the Cloud: https://sustainability.aboutamazon.com/environment/the-cloud [YOUTUBE] AWS re:Invent 2021 - Architecting for Sustainability: https://youtu.be/3-Zq2W1-odU [YOUTUBE] AWS re:Invent 2021 - Sustainability in AWS Global Infrastructure: https://youtu.be/Dmz45WhXENs 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
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Sep 9, 2022 • 22min

Episode 051 - Amplify Studio GA with Ali Spittel - Part 2

In part two, Dave and Emily continue their conversation with Ali Spittel, head of developer advocacy for AWS Amplify at Amazon. Ali covers the general availability release of Amplify Studio, the history behind the service, and how it can help designer and developers work better together. She also discusses the role of developer advocacy, social media, and the trio shares some of the history behind early developer relations. As part of this conversation, Ali announced the AWS Amplify Hackathon running the entire month of September and giving developers a chance to win both cash prizes and AWS swag! If you missed it, you can listen to part one of this conversation in Episode 050. Ali on Twitter: twitter.com/ASpittel Emily on Twitter: twitter.com/editingemily Dave on Twitter: twitter.com/thedavedev [HACKATHON] AWS Amplify Hackathon - running September 1st-30th, 2022 - Win up to $1000, and AWS Free Credits! https://bit.ly/amplifyhackathon [PODCAST] Ali's Ladybug Podcast: https://www.ladybug.dev [PODCAST] AWS Developers Podcast - Episode 030 - AWS Amplify Hosting with Nikhil Swaminathan: https://soundcloud.com/awsdevelopers/episode-030-aws-amplify-hosting-with-nikhil-swaminathan [PODCAST] AWS Developers Podcast - Episode 026 - AWS AppSync with Brice Pelle: https://soundcloud.com/awsdevelopers/episode-026-aws-appsync-with-brice-pelle PODCAST] AWS Developers Podcast - Episode 020 - AWS Amplify Geo with Harshita Daddala: https://soundcloud.com/awsdevelopers/episode-020-aws-amplify-geo-with-harshita-daddala AWS Amplify on Twitter: https://twitter.com/awsamplify AWS Amplify on Github: https://github.com/aws-amplify AWS Amplify: https://docs.amplify.aws/ Amplify Discord Server: https://discord.gg/amplify 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
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Sep 1, 2022 • 24min

Episode 050 - Amplify Studio GA with Ali Spittel

In this episode Emily and Dave catch up with Ali Spittel, head of developer advocacy for AWS Amplify at Amazon. Ali covers the general availability release of Amplify Studio, the history behind the service, and how it is helping designer and developers work better together. She also covers how the Amplify team works directly with the community to shape the product, and announces the AWS Amplify Hackathon. This hackathon will be running the entire month of September and giving developers a chance to win both cash prizes and AWS swag! Ali on Twitter: twitter.com/ASpittel Emily on Twitter: twitter.com/editingemily Dave on Twitter: twitter.com/thedavedev [HACKATHON] AWS Amplify Hackathon - running September 1st-30th, 2022 - Win up to $1000, and AWS Free Credits! https://bit.ly/amplifyhackathon [PODCAST] Ali's Ladybug Podcast: https://www.ladybug.dev [PODCAST] AWS Developers Podcast - Episode 030 - AWS Amplify Hosting with Nikhil Swaminathan: https://soundcloud.com/awsdevelopers/episode-030-aws-amplify-hosting-with-nikhil-swaminathan [PODCAST] AWS Developers Podcast - Episode 026 - AWS AppSync with Brice Pelle: https://soundcloud.com/awsdevelopers/episode-026-aws-appsync-with-brice-pelle PODCAST] AWS Developers Podcast - Episode 020 - AWS Amplify Geo with Harshita Daddala: https://soundcloud.com/awsdevelopers/episode-020-aws-amplify-geo-with-harshita-daddala AWS Amplify on Twitter: https://twitter.com/awsamplify AWS Amplify on Github: https://github.com/aws-amplify AWS Amplify: https://docs.amplify.aws/ Amplify Discord Server: https://discord.gg/amplify 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
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Aug 26, 2022 • 40min

Episode 049 – Starting a Career in Cloud Computing with Linda Haviv

In this episode, Dave and Emily chat with Linda Haviv, a Developer Advocate at Amazon Web Services. Linda has a large social media following on both TikTok and Instagram, where she covers numerous AWS and cloud concepts, offers advice to people looking to start a cloud career, and highlights many other members of the developer community. Linda shares her journey from being a full-time journalist, how she found a love a tech, and the decision she made to start a developer career. She offers plenty of advice to new developers ramping up, the importance of meetups and community, as well as tips for passing AWS certifications. Linda on Twitter: https://twitter.com/lindavivah Linda on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lindavivah Linda on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lindavivah/ Linda’s Medium: https://medium.com/@LindaVivah Linda’s Website: https://lindavivah.com/ Emily on Twitter: https://twitter.com/editingemily Dave on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thedavedev [BLOG] What is AWS in 60 secs: https://medium.com/@LindaVivah/what-is-aws-in-60-seconds-ec88edaa750c [BLOG] Linda’s Working from Home Setup: https://lindavivah.com/my%20wfh%20setup [BLOG] Six Years Later: Was Flatiron School Worth It for Linda https://www.coursereport.com/blog/six-years-later-was-flatiron-school-worth-it-for-linda Credits - Frozen 2 - Into the Unknown Clip – Performed by Peter Hollens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpC9r3TspCI 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
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Aug 19, 2022 • 29min

Episode 048 - Integration and Automation Team with Troy Ameigh and Dave May

In this episode, Dave and Emily chat with Troy Ameigh, Sr. Partner Solutions Architect, and Dave May, Partner Solutions Architect who both work on the Integration and Automation Team at AWS (I&A). The AWS I&A team is responsible for building Quik Starts, which are automated reference deployments using AWS Services. These Quick Starts help customers deploy popular technologies on AWS according to AWS best practices and can reduce deployments from hundreds of manual procedures to just a few steps. Troy on GitHub: https://github.com/troy-ameigh Troy on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/troy-ameigh Dave on GitHub: https://github.com/davmayd Dave on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maydave/ [BLOG] AWS I&A Team Blog - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/infrastructure-and-automation [CONTACT] Email - quickstart@amazon.com [DOCS] I&A Team Terraform Standards - https://aws-ia.github.io/standards-terraform/ [DOCS] AWS Quick Start Catalog - https://aws.amazon.com/quickstart [DOCS] AWS Quick Start FAQ - https://aws.amazon.com/quickstart/faq [DOCS] AWS Quick Start Contributor’s Guide - https://aws-quickstart.github.io [DOCS] AWS Quick Start Self-Paced Workshop - https://workshop.quickstart.awspartner.com [GIT] AWS Quick Starts - https://github.com/aws-quickstart [GIT] AWS I&A Team - https://github.com/aws-ia [TECH HISTORY] VAX: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VAX [TOOLS] TaskCat testing tool - http://taskcat.io 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
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Aug 4, 2022 • 31min

Episode 047 - Getting Started with Terraform on AWS with Cobus Bernard

In this episode, Emily and Dave chat with Cobus Bernard, Sr Developer Advocate, Technical Experience at AWS. Cobus talks about his experience moving from Africa to the United States, the tech scene in Africa, and what it was like working in developer relations with such a diverse geography. Cobus then dives into an introduction to using Terraform on AWS, understanding HCL and modules, and shares some of the gotchas developers might run into. Cobus on Twitter: https://twitter.com/cobusbernard Emily on Twitter: https://twitter.com/editingemily Dave on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thedavedev Cobus YouTube Channel: http://bit.ly/cobus-youtube Cobus Twitch Channel: https://www.twitch.tv/cobusbernard [BLOG] Terraform: Beyond the Basics with AWS: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/apn/terraform-beyond-the-basics-with-aws/ [DOCS] Terraform Documentation: https://www.terraform.io/language [DOCS] Getting Started with Terraform on AWS: https://learn.hashicorp.com/collections/terraform/aws-get-started [IMAGE] Not Darko Not Cobus Meme: https://ibb.co/GPr5kSD [YOUTUBE] Getting Started with Terraform on AWS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZirQnwfCHo&ab_channel=CobusBernard [YOUTUBE] DevBeardOps - Terraform with Kerim Satirli: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxABeguq2kU&ab_channel=CobusBernard 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

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