Real World Serverless with theburningmonk

You can find Ben on Twitter as @ben11kehoe.Following our conversation regarding AWS SSO, Ben has also open-sourced a tool that helps you make AWS SSO work with all the SDKs that don't understand it yet. Check it out here: https://github.com/benkehoe/aws-sso-credential-processFor more stories about real-world use of serverless technologies, please follow us on Twitter as @RealWorldSls and subscribe to this podcast.Opening theme song:Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday/License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4

You can find Anahit on Twitter as @anahit_fi and check out Solita's website at solita.fi and their blogs at dev.solita.fi and cloud.solita.fi.Also, check out Anahit's talk on Serverless data streaming at the AWS Community Day Nordics 2020.For more stories about real-world use of serverless technologies, please follow us on Twitter as @RealWorldSls and subscribe to this podcast.Opening theme song:Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday/License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

You can find Gareth on Twitter as @garethmcc.Install the Serverless framework here, and don't forget to check out Gareth's full-stack Serverless course here.For more stories about real-world use of serverless technologies, please follow us on Twitter as @RealWorldSls and subscribe to this podcast.Opening theme song:Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday/License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/

This episode is sponsored by Dynobase, a modern DynamoDB GUI Client.You can find Nicole on Twitter as @Pelicanpie88 and Sheen as @sheenbrisals.To hear Sheen's chat with Jeremy Daly over on ServerlessChats, go here. And you can read more about Sheen's thoughts on Serverless on his medium blog here.To see Nicole's talk at Serverless London, go here.For more stories about real-world use of serverless technologies, please follow us on Twitter as @RealWorldSls and subscribe to this podcast.Opening theme song:Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday/License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/

To see the open positions at M&G, please go to https://global.mandg.com/careers.You can find Daniel on Twitter as @danbassdev and read his blog at https://www.danielbass.dev. He has also published two books on building serverless architectures with Azure:Beginning Serverless Architectures with Microsoft Azure by PacktAdvanced Serverless Architectures with Microsoft Azure by PacktFor more stories about real-world use of serverless technologies, please follow us on Twitter as @RealWorldSls and subscribe to this podcast.Opening theme song:Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday/License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

I spoke with Daniel Wright and Sara Gerion to talk about the state of Serverless adoption at DAZN. We talked about a range of topics including:How DAZN uses serverless in a high scale, high uptime environment.How DAZN mixes Serverless and Containers in a hybrid environment.Why the Serverless-first approach makes sense even for a large company such as DAZN.How DAZN implements multi-region, active-active for their services.Thoughts on Terraform vs Serverless framework.You can find Daniel on Twitter as @daalwr and Sara as @sarutule.You can find open positions at DAZN on their careers page and check out their engineering blog to see the problems they're solving.For more stories about real-world use of serverless technologies, please follow us on Twitter as @RealWorldSls and subscribe to this podcast.Opening theme song:Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday/License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

I spoke with Matt Lewis (Chief Architect at DVLA and AWS Data Hero) and Chris Williams (Principal Cloud Engineer at DVLA) to talk about the state of Serverless adoption at DVLA. We talked about a range of topics, from serverless security, QLDB, cultural and organizational changes when one moves to serverless and why AWS needs to offer more opinionated advice to customers on when to use which service.You can find Matt on Twitter as @m_lewis and Chris as @chrilliams.Here is the NCSC report "Cloud Security made easier with Serverless"https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/blog-post/cloud-security-made-easier-with-serverlessThe best site for information about DVLA's cloud academy programme and other roles ishttps://www.49millionreasonsto.co.ukFor more stories about real-world use of serverless technologies, please follow us on Twitter as @RealWorldSls and subscribe to this podcast.Opening theme song:Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday/License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

This is part 2 of my conversation with Scott Smethurst and Diana Ionita about their work at LifeWorks. We discussed the platform limitations and usability issues that make serverless development difficult sometimes, including problems with CloudWatch Logs, X-Ray, etc. that pushes you towards using other third-party vendors.In part 1, we talked about the story of LifeWorks, a wellbeing startup that were acquired for $400M, in part, thanks to the heroics of Scott and Diana. They implemented business critical features using serverless technologies, delivered them under severe time constraints and created significant business value which played a part in the acquisition.For more stories about real-world use of serverless technologies, please follow us on Twitter as @RealWorldSls and subscribe to this podcast.Opening theme song:Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday/License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

This is part 1 of my conversation with Scott Smethurst and Diana Ionita about their work at LifeWorks. We talked about the story of LifeWorks, a wellbeing startup that were acquired for $400M, in part, thanks to the heroics of Scott and Diana. They implemented business critical features using serverless technologies, delivered them under severe time constraints and created significant business value which played a part in the acquisition.We talked about how they made their systems multi-region and geo-partitioned their user data. We discussed why they opted for Apollo server instead of AppSync and the challenges of transitioning to a serverless way of doing things - including changing in mindset, local debugging and testing.Check out org-formation, an open-source tool to help you manage your AWS organization using infrastructure-as-code (IAC) and CloudFormation-like syntax.For more stories about real-world use of serverless technologies, please follow us on Twitter as @RealWorldSls and subscribe to this podcast.Opening theme song:Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday/License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

I caught up with Nick Blair and Steve Westwood to talk about the state of Serverless adoption at TotallyMoney and their transition from running .Net microservices on containers & EC2 to a Serverless-first approach with Node.js/Typescript functions. We talked about the changes to how they do local development and testing, as well as platform limits that they have run into.Get your free credit score report at totallymoney.com and check out their careers page to get in touch about open positions.You can find Nick on Twitter as @nickblair and find Steve on Linkedin.For more stories about real-world use of serverless technologies, please follow us on Twitter as @RealWorldSls and subscribe to this podcast.Opening theme song:Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday/License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/