Season 3 Episode 31: Macs, Loops, and Misconfigurations

In Season 3, Episode 31 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Luis Valdivia. They discuss MacOS CI/CD, Upgrading Lambda Functions, Lambda Loop Detection, Chatbot for Security Events, ALB Misconfiguration Exposure and Jon describes how he's training his kids in the art of medieval combat...

Articles:

05:04 - Add macOS to your continuous integration pipelines with AWS CodeBuild 

They discuss a new AWS CodeBuild feature that allows adding MacOS to continuous integration pipelines for building iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, tvOS, and MacOS applications and talk about challenges with using MacOS for builds.

15:48 - Leverage Amazon Q to upgrade Lambda runtime functions 

They discuss using Amazon Q to help upgrade Lambda runtimes like moving from Python 3.7 to 3.12 and debate whether AI like Q is ready to fully take over coding.

22:35 - AWS Lambda introduces recursive loop detection APIs 

They discuss a new recursive loop detection API in AWS Lambda and whether it is necessary and helpful for developers.

29:01 - Manage security events in Slack, Teams, or Amazon Chime using AWS Chatbot and Amazon Q

They discuss using AWS Chatbot with Amazon Q to manage security events in Slack/Chime.

 33:28 -Thousands of Apps Using AWS ALB Exposed to Attacks Due to Configuration Issue 

They discuss a report about potential misconfigurations exposing thousands of AWS environments due to issues with Application Load Balancers. 

Guest was Luis Valdivia:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/luis-valdivia-humareda/