Sandro Volpicella, platform lead at Hashnode and co-author of AWS Fundamentals, discusses the architecture of Hashnode's serverless blogging platform, including its caching strategy and SWR approach. The podcast also covers the use of a regular database instead of a real-time database, the bottom and top layer of Hashnode's serverless architecture, and considerations for MongoDB.

AJ Stuyvenberg, an AWS Hero and staff engineer at Datadog, shares insights on optimizing Lambda cold starts. They discuss the gradual adoption of serverless technology, comparison of AWS services for serverless container deployment, running containers on AWS, Java's rise in serverless development, and strategies for optimizing Lambda cold starts.

Anton Babenko, AWS Community Hero, discusses Serverless.TF for serverless development with Terraform and the recent Terraform licensing controversy. He shares insights on simplifying serverless application development, exploring server.tf for Terraform modules, and the impact of HashiCorp's license change. The podcast also covers the negative atmosphere on Hiker News, upcoming sessions at reinvent, and Anton's expertise in Terraform and serverless applications.

In this episode, I spoke with Ran Isenberg, who is an AWS Serverless Hero and Principal Software Architect at CyberArk. Amongst other things, we talked about platform engineering at CyberArk, how they adopted CDK and how they approach testing and tenant isolations.Links from the episode:* Ran's blog* Open positions at CyberArk* cdk-nag* Ran's AWS Lambda cookbook* See Ran speak at re:Invent, session OPN305* My approach towards serverless testing* My course on serverless testing* Episode 85 with Matt Bonig about CDK dos & don'tsYou can find Ran on X as @IsenbergRan-----For more stories about real-world use of serverless technologies, please subscribe to the channel and follow me on X as @theburningmonk.And if you're hungry for more insights, best practices, and invaluable tips on building serverless apps, make sure to subscribe to our free newsletter and elevate your serverless game! https://theburningmonk.com/subscribeOpening 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 Matthew Bonig, who is an AWS DevTools Hero and co-author of The CDK Book.We talked about the Dos and Don'ts of CDK, and Matthew shared some tips on testing and how to organize your CDK project.Links from the episode:The CDK BookAdvanced CDK CourseConstruct HubCDK PatternsCDK Community Survey 2023cdk.devWing LangAmptCDK Days track 1CDK Days track 2You can find Matthew on X as @mattbonig.-----For more stories about real-world use of serverless technologies, please subscribe to the channel and follow me on X as @theburningmonk.And if you're hungry for more insights, best practices, and invaluable tips on building serverless apps, make sure to subscribe to our free newsletter and elevate your serverless game! https://theburningmonk.com/subscribeOpening theme song:Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-mondayLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

Charity Majors, co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb, shares insights on Parse's acquisition by Facebook, observability, devops, deploying on Fridays, and the significance of team safety and celebrating failures for success.

In this episode, I spoke with Gerard Sans, who is a Google Developer Expert and my co-author for the AppSync Masterclass.We talked about Google's new AI platform, what it entails and how Google's AI offerings compare to OpenAI. For example, what can you do with Bard and Duet AI and why one might consider using them instead of ChatGPT or CoPilot. We discussed Midjourney vs. Stable Diffusion, and how platforms need to be more responsible with their AI offerings. And we also touched on the idea of AI agents and once again, LangChain was part of the conversation.You can also watch this episode on YouTube here and see Gerard's slides and demos.Links from the episode:Google's MakerSuite announcementAI for Google WorkspaceStable DiffusionStable Diffusion's new DreamBooth featureAdobe FireflyMidjourneyMidjourney's new inpainting featureHow ElevenLabs's voice cloning made me sound ScottishGoogle BardAnthropic Claude 2Ep81: AI development with LangChain with Matt CareyYou can find Gerard on X as @gerardsans.-----For more stories about real-world use of serverless technologies, please subscribe to the channel and follow me on X as @theburningmonk.And if you're hungry for more insights, best practices, and invaluable tips on building serverless apps, make sure to subscribe to our free newsletter and elevate your serverless game! https://theburningmonk.com/subscribeOpening theme song:Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-mondayLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

Heitor Lessa, principal solution architect at AWS, talks about the challenges and learnings from building the Lambda Powertools project. They discuss the trade-offs of monolithic Lambda functions and the use of Lambda Layers. Heitor also announces upcoming features and discusses the importance of working in public and building internal communities.

In this episode, I spoke with Matt Carey, who's a senior engineer at Aleios, a premium AWS consultant that focuses on serverless technologies.The focus of our conversation was LangChain, Matt explained what it is and demoed some AI applications that he has developed with LangChain. Such as the popular Quivr app and Code Review GPT. If you want to see the demos in their full glory, then please go to YouTube and watch the episode here.We talked about some common challenges with AI development, such as testing, and how Matt and his team have developed a novel approach for dealing with the non-deterministic nature of these applications.Links from the episode:* Quivr* Code Review GPT* LangChain docs* PrivateGPT* Theodo's OrionTools* Blog on testing Gen AI applications* GenAI days eventsYou can find Matt on X as @mattzcarey and his LinkedIn profile here. You can also learn more about Aleios and their work at https://www.aleios.com. For more stories about real-world use of serverless technologies, please subscribe to the channel and follow me on X as @theburningmonk.And if you're hungry for more insights, best practices, and invaluable tips on building serverless apps, make sure to subscribe to our free newsletter and elevate your serverless game! https://theburningmonk.com/subscribeOpening theme song:Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-mondayLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

Randall Hunt, VP of Cloud Strategy and Innovation at Caylent, discusses AWS Bedrock and its advantages, debunking AWS's supposed weakness in AI. They explore tokenization, vector stores, prompt injection, and the challenges of using AWS Lambda with chat GPT. Learn about the adoption of Bedrock in different industries and the benefits of response streams in both Lambda and Bedrock.