Real World Serverless with theburningmonk

David Behroozi, a 15-year veteran at Amazon and creator of Speedrun, shares the fascinating inception story of Amazon Cognito. He discusses its role in identity management and mobile app security. David also introduces Speedrun, a tool transforming GitHub markdown into executable code. The conversation dives into navigating AWS, strategies for developer success, and the importance of user feedback in cloud development. Listeners will gain valuable insights into simplifying workflows and enhancing user experiences in technology.

Thank you to Hookdeck for sponsoring this episode. If you're looking to level-up your event-driven architecture, then check out their serverless event gateway at hookdeck.com/theburningmonk and help support this podcast.Thomas Nixon, CTO of Baseline, shares stories from the trenches about the challenges of adopting serverless technologies.He gave us a demo of Baseline.js, a new serverless development framework that captures the many hard-learned lessons his team has made in the last six years.Think Amplify, but you own the source code and can easily customize things to suit your needs. I recommend watching the episode on YouTube so you can see the full demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6r8M8E_5n4Links from the episode:Getting started with Baseline.jsBaseline's Github repoThomas' LinkedIn profileOpening theme song:Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-mondayLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

Allen Helton discusses the relevance of serverless technology, emphasizing community building and being an enabler. The conversation covers the evolution of serverless, challenges in event-driven architectures, and the importance of understanding problems before providing solutions. The episode also explores domain-driven design, transitioning in software development, and personal updates on daughter's treatment.

Former AWS Hero turned AWS employee Farrah Campbell shares insights on leading the AWS Heroes and Community Builders programs, discussing the process of becoming an AWS Hero, building engaging and inclusive AWS communities, excitement for serverless events, the power of community in the tech industry, and managing growth and passion in community building at AWS.

Brian LeRoux, Co-founder of begin.com, discusses Architect framework, AWS SDK optimization, web components, and AMT project. Topics include Lambdalith vs. Single-purpose functions, faster AWS SDK (aws-lite), functionless, and infra from code frameworks like Ampt.

In this episode, I spoke with Waldemar Hummer, founder and CTO of LocalStack. We discussed what's new in the latest version of LocalStack and highlighted some of the most interesting additions.One particular highlight for me is the ability to identify IAM permission errors between direct service integrations. For example, when an EventBridge pipe cannot deliver a message to a SQS target. And the ability to use test runs to generate the necessary IAM permissions so they can be added to your Lambda functions.LocalStack v3 also allows running chaos experiments locally by adding random latency spikes, making an entire AWS region unavailable, or simulating DynamoDB throughput-exceeded errors.Lots of exciting new features in LocalStack v3! Waldemar gave us a live demo of some of these features. You can watch the episode on YouTube and watch the demos here.Links from the episode:My webinar with Waldemar after LocalStack v2LocalStack v3 announcementMy blog post on when to use Step Functions vs running everything in LambdaLocalStack is hiring!Opening theme song:Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-mondayLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

Ian Griffiths, Technical Fellow at Endjin and Microsoft MVP, talks about Azure Functions in this podcast. Topics include unique use cases like monitoring shipping, comparing AWS Step Functions and Azure Logic Apps, language support and security considerations, hosted processes, and the RX.NET project.

Learn about the challenges of streaming live sports to millions of concurrent viewers, including ensuring uptime during CDN outages and delivering a seamless playback experience. Dive into the complexities of optimizing serverless architectures and the transition from Lambda to containerized solutions for enhanced performance. Explore how DAZN integrates global commentary into live sports streams and the importance of localized viewing experiences for maintaining high uptime.

In this episode, I spoke with Richard Davison, the creator of the new LLRT (Low Latency Runtime) for Lambda. We talked about the motivation for a specialised JavaScript runtime for Lambda, how it achieves the insane cold start time and the trade-offs they had to make.Links from the episode:GitHub repo for LLRTAPI compatibility listQuickJs engineOpening theme song:Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-mondayLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

In this episode, I spoke with Jack Ellis, who is a co-founder of Fathom. We into the cost optimizations that he used to save Fathom $100k/year on their AWS bill.Links from the episode:Fathom's technical blogJack's personal pageJack's newsletterOpening theme song:Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-mondayLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0