Real World Serverless with theburningmonk

In this episode, I spoke with Sandro Volpicella, who is a platform lead at Hashnode, a fully serverless blogging platform. He is also the co-author of AWS Fundamentals (https://awsfundamentals.com).

We explored Hashnode's architecture and went deep into its caching strategy, which is a crucial ingredient of a scalable and performant blogging platform.

Links from the episode:

• Hashnode's overall architecture
• AWS Fundamentals
• CloudWatch Book
• Stellate
• Upstash
• How Hashnode implements the user feed
• OctoLense
• ServerlessQ
• Choosing a database for serverless applications 

You can find Sandro on X as @sandro_vol

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Opening theme song:
Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

In this episode, I spoke with AJ Stuyvenberg, who is an AWS Hero and staff engineer at Datadog. We discussed the findings from the latest state of serverless report and spoke about Lambda cold starts at length. AJ has done some incredible research into Lambda cold starts and shared the 4 biggest mistakes people make regarding Lambda cold starts.

If you care about getting the best performance for your Lambda functions and minimizing cold starts, then this is the episode for you!

Links from the episode:

• State of Serverless report
• Corey Quinn's 17 ways to run containers on AWS
• Corey Quinn's 17 more ways to run containers
• AJ’s Linkedin profile
• AJ's re:invent session (COM305)
• AJ's Twitch stream
• AJ's post on Lambda proactive initialisation
• Michael Hart’s post on Lambda using full CPU during init 

You can find AJ on X as @astuyve

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Opening theme song:
Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

In this episode, I spoke with Anton Babenko, who is an AWS Community Hero and creator of the Serverless.TF framework. We spoke at length about serverless development with Terraform and the problems that Serverless.TF aims to solve. We also discussed the recent seismic split in the Terraform community, with HashiCorp's license change and the initiation of the OpenTofu movement. Anton didn't hold back on his feelings about the oversized reaction to HashiCorp's announcement, and I agree with him!

Links from the episode:

* Serverless.TF framework
* Serverless.TF example for Lambda
* Anton's various other projects
* Hire Anton for consulting engagements
* HashiCorp's license change announcement
* OpenTofu

You can find Anton on X as @antonbabenko

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Opening theme song:
Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

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'ts

You can find Ran on X as @IsenbergRan

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Opening theme song:
Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: 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 Book
• Advanced CDK Course
• Construct Hub
• CDK Patterns
• CDK Community Survey 2023
• cdk.dev
• Wing Lang
• Ampt
• CDK Days track 1
• CDK Days track 2

You can find Matthew on X as @mattbonig.

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Opening theme song:
Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

In this episode, I spoke with Charity Majors, who is the co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb, a popular observability platform.

We had a wide-ranging conversation about Parse (and its acquisition by Facebook), observability, devops and why you should deploy on Fridays (but you still need to apply good engineering sense!).

Links from the episode:

• Honeycomb 
• Honeycomb blog
• Honeycomb's AI-powered query assistant
• OpenTelemetry
  
  

You can find Charity on X as @mipsytipsy.

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Opening theme song:
Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

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 announcement
• AI for Google Workspace
• Stable Diffusion
• Stable Diffusion's new DreamBooth feature
• Adobe Firefly
• Midjourney
• Midjourney's new inpainting feature
• How ElevenLabs's voice cloning made me sound Scottish
• Google Bard
• Anthropic Claude 2
• Ep81: AI development with LangChain with Matt Carey

You can find Gerard on X as @gerardsans.

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Opening theme song:
Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

In this episode, I spoke with Heitor Lessa, who is a principal solution architect at AWS that specializes in serverless. He's also the man behind the popular AWS Lambda Powertools project which is available in a number of languages.

We talked about the history of the Lambda Powertools project, and the challenges and learnings from building in public. And Heitor shared the public roadmap for the Lambda Powertools and announced some exciting features that are going to be available soon.

Additionally, we also discussed the trade-offs of monolithic Lambda functions, aka "fat functions", and why Heitor prefers them nowadays. And we talked about Lambda Layers and when it's a good idea to use them. Hint: You shouldn't use Lambda Layers as a replacement for package managers such as NPM.

You can also watch this episode on YouTube here, and see the code samples that Heitor shared during the episode.

Links from the episode:

• Lambda Powertools Roadmap
• Lambda Powertools discord 
• My post on when to use Lambda Layers

You can find Heitor on X as @heitor_lessa and his LinkedIn profile here.


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Opening theme song:
Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

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 events

You 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.

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Opening theme song:
Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

In this episode, I spoke with Randall Hunt, who's the VP of Cloud Strategy and Innovation at Caylent and had previously worked at Vendia, Facebook AI, AWS and SpaceX.

We talked about AWS Bedrock, what is it and how it works and saw a demo of a simple AI application built with Bedrock and LangChain. Randall explained the advantages of using Bedrock and why tales of AWS's supposedly weakness in AI are far-fetched.

I had a lot of fun talking to Randall and learnt a lot from the conversation and I hope you will too. This episode includes some live demo, which is best enjoyed if you watch the episode on YouTube here.

Links from the episode:

• The "Attention is all you need" whitepaper from 2017
• OWASP top 10 for LLM applications
• Pinecone vector database for AI
• Momento announced its upcoming serverless vector database 
• AWS re:Inforce 2023 talk on data security with Bedrock
• Caylent's career page

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Opening theme song:
Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

In this episode, I caught up with Ben Kehoe, who is an AWS Serverless Hero and one of the earliest adopters of serverless technologies.

In a wide-ranging conversation, we discussed many topics around serverless and AI, including:

• The natural evolution of marketing terms and the need to focus on specific functional characteristics rather than defending the term. For example, including of arguing about what "serverless" means, we should instead talk about "pay-per-use".
• AWS should focus DX around the core service (e.g. CloudFormation) rather than trying to find client-side solutions by adding workarounds in SAM, CDK, etc.
• These client-side answers have a higher Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). Developers often don’t see the increased TCO they are taking on, but when things break, it’s a problem.
• Developers put too much emphasis on author time benefits and not enough on runtime and operational time costs. They should be more thoughtful about the operational time cost.
• The “infrastructure from code” movement is taking burdens off the developer but leaving them with the developer’s business, which is a bad thing.
• Developers often have a hard time separating delivering business value vs. coding.
• As an industry, a flawed narrative has emerged that developers are somehow special within an organisation and that it’s OK for them to ignore their responsibilities to security if there is friction in the process.
• Ai has the potential to impede human growth as the current AI systems are not designed to generate new ideas and challenge the status quo. “an AI generator that is trained on modernist art would never invent post-modernism”.

Links from the episode:

• The meaning(lessness) of serverless
• Serverless is a state of mind
• The serverless spectrum
• Ep16 - Serverless at iRobot with Ben Kehoe

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Want to step up your AWS game and learn how to build production-ready serverless applications? Check out my upcoming workshops and I will teach you everything I know.

Opening theme song:
Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

In this episode, I spoke with Eduard Bargues, who is a Principal Engineer at Ohpen, a cloud-native open banking platform.

We talked about Ohpen's migration from EC2 to a mix of Fargate and Lambda, and along the way, we touched on many topics:

• migration patterns
• the "serverless-first" mindset
• how to choose when to use Lambda vs Fargate
• why monolith functions are painful and should be avoided
• recommendations and pitfalls
• why you should build a DX team

We also talked about how being cloud-agnostic makes you use the cloud in a way that is inefficient and creates many layers of unnecessary abstraction layers in your architecture, which Eduard calls "legacy lock-in"!

We talked about their event-driven architecture and how they are using an in-house Event Broker to add FIFO support (which EventBridge doesn't support) for some subscribers. It's similar to what Luc van Donkersgoed talked about in episode 68. We talked about their EventBridge topology and how they manage over 200 AWS accounts, and finally, what are the biggest shortcomings with EventBridge right now.

Links from the episode:

• Job openings at Ohpen
• Episode 68 with PostNL
• Episode 73 with NN
• Luc van Donkersgoed's Twitter and LinkedIn
• The decoupled invocation pattern

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Want to step up your AWS game and learn how to build production-ready serverless applications? Check out my upcoming workshops and I will teach you everything I know.

Opening theme song:
Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

In this episode, I spoke with Luca Mezzalira, who is the author of "Building Micro-Frontends" by O'Reilly, and a Principal Specialist Solutions Architect at AWS focusing on serverless.

We talked about micro-frontends and dived deep into his experience with them at both DAZN and AWS. We got a high-level overview of micro-frontends: what it is, how they work, and who should adopt micro-frontends. And why it worked out so well at DAZN, which had the challenge of supporting more than a dozen of devices including set-top boxes with custom versions of HTML!

We were also able to dive deep into some technical topics, such as how to manage the shared user state (e.g. credentials and session); how to build micro-frontends from a CI/CD pipeline POV; and how to maintain a consistent styling and layout across all your micro-frontend pages.

Links from the episode:

• The frontend-discovery-service open-source project in AWS Labs
• Luca's Microfrontends book

For more stories about real-world use of serverless technologies, please follow me on Twitter as @theburningmonk and subscribe to this podcast.

Want to step up your AWS game and learn how to build production-ready serverless applications? Check out my upcoming workshops and I will teach you everything I know.

Opening theme song:
Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

In this episode, I spoke with Eric Peterson who is the founder and CTO of CloudZero, a leading vendor that helps AWS customers reign in their AWS spending by revealing hidden savings and preventing costly mistakes.

We discussed a range of topics, including common mistakes AWS users make and how CloudZero once saved a customer potentially a million-dollar on CDN bills by alerting them of spending abnormalities early.

We also talked about the trade-off between having cloud cost controls and the cost overhead they add. We talked about FinOps and how CloudZero can understand the unit cost of their own systems and how much each customer costs them because of the pay-per-use pricing model of serverless technologies.

And we discussed the wider economic trends in 2023 and how that might impact companies going forward and how it might change their views on serverless and the cloud more broadly.

Links from the episode:

• Erik's Twitter, Linkedin and personal blog
• Building a fully serverless insurance company with Joe Emison

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Opening theme song:
Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

In this episode, I spoke with Dax Raad to talk about SST and the challenges of building an open-source community. Honestly, I think AWS can learn a thing or two from Dax's approach towards open-source, an approach that puts the needs of the customers first at the cost of the convenience of the maintainers.

We talked about some shortcomings of CDK, the origin of SST and what problems it's supposed to solve; who are the intended users; and how SST differs from other simpler products on the market.

We talked about  Dax's journey into serverless, via Kubernetes. And the self-realization that deep down, behind all the arguments about "vendor lock-in", he was pushing back on serverless because he was trying to avoid learning another thing.

And we reminisced about learning programming languages and our shared appreciation for Erlang and the actor model!

Links from the episode:

• Check out SST here

In this episode, I spoke with Kirk Kirkconnell to talk about his experience with database technologies and serverless. Kirk had been involved with databases his whole career, including recently with the DynamoDB and Momento teams.

We talked about single table design with DynamoDB - when to use it and some common drawbacks to consider. We discussed the strength and weaknesses of DynamoDB DAX and when to use it vs a general-purpose caching solution like Momento.

But the big discussion was about the rise of faux serverless services and the important, yet often underrated role of scale to zero. And why there needs to be a litmus test for serverless storage services so people have a better idea of what they're getting themselves into!

Links from the episode:

• Litmus for serverless (blog post)
• Jobs at Momento
• Getting started with Momento

This episode is sponsored by Momento. Get all the benefits of database caching and none of the operational headache with Momento Serverless Cache. Start free at gomomento.co/realworld.

For more stories about real-world use of serverless technologies, please follow me on Twitter as @theburningmonk and subscribe to this podcast.

Want to step up your AWS game and learn how to build production-ready serverless applications? Check out my upcoming workshops and I will teach you everything I know.

Opening theme song:
Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

In this episode, I spoke with Vijai Ramcharan to talk about his experience with introducing serverless at NN, a 175 years-old financial services company based in the Netherlands.

We touched on many topics, from changing existing mindsets and training engineers about AWS and serverless, to vendor lock-in and challenges with adopting serverless at the enterprise scale.

Links from the episode:

• Vacancies at NN
• Vijai's article on kickstarting serverless adoption at NN
• Werner Vogel's keynote at re:invent 2022
• Gregor Hophe's talk on Modern cloud applications: Do they lock you in?

This episode is sponsored by Momento. Get all the benefits of database caching and none of the operational headache with Momento Serverless Cache. Start free at gomomento.co/realworld.

For more stories about real-world use of serverless technologies, please follow us on Twitter as @RealWorldSls and subscribe to this podcast.

Want to step up your AWS game and learn how to build production-ready serverless applications? Check out my upcoming workshops and I will teach you everything I know.

Opening theme song:
Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

In this episode, I caught up with Rowan Udell to talk about his book The Practical AWS IAM Guide and get his takes on IAM best practices.

Links from the episode:

• AWS IAM Analyzer
• Cloudsplaining
• IAM live
• Permissions.Cloud
• TrackIAM
• AWS services that work with IAM

This episode is sponsored by Momento. Get all the benefits of database caching and none of the operational headache with Momento Serverless Cache. Start free at gomomento.co/realworld.

For more stories about real-world use of serverless technologies, please follow us on Twitter as @RealWorldSls and subscribe to this podcast.

Want to step up your AWS game and learn how to build production-ready serverless applications? Check out my upcoming workshops and I will teach you everything I know.

Opening theme song:
Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

In this episode, I caught up with Ben Bridts, who is an AWS Community Hero and consultant at Cloudar in Belgium.

We talked about many topics, including common mistakes companies make in AWS; the problems with AWS Organizations; pitfalls with platform teams; and some success stories from his work as a consultant.

Links from the episode:

• Alex DeBrie's post on GraphQL and Single-table design

For more stories about real-world use of serverless technologies, please follow us on Twitter as @RealWorldSls and subscribe to this podcast.

Want to step up your AWS game and learn how to build production-ready serverless applications? Check out my upcoming workshops and I will teach you everything I know.

Opening theme song:
Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

In this episode, I caught up with Sarah Hamilton, who is an AWS Community Builder and a software engineer at LEGO.

We talked about her journey into serverless and LEGO's serverless adoption has changed since I spoke with Sheen and Nicole on this podcast. In the two years since they have grown from 6 features teams to over 25, all focused on serverless technologies. We also talked about some of Sarah's previous work, especially a project where she used Step Functions, and her approach towards testing Step Functions.

Links from the episode:

• Sarah's talk on advanced event-driven architectures at LEGO group
• Episode 12: Serverless at LEGO with Nicole Yip and Sheen Brisals

For more stories about real-world use of serverless technologies, please follow us on Twitter as @RealWorldSls and subscribe to this podcast.

Want to step up your AWS game and learn how to build production-ready serverless applications? Check out my upcoming workshops and I will teach you everything I know.

Opening theme song:
Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

In this episode, I spoke with Sam Williams, who runs the Complete Coding YouTube channel where he teaches about AWS and Serverless. He recently published a new video course called "Master AWS Serverless with 7 Real World Projects" and shared some helpful tips on picking the right course and how you can get the most from these courses.

Sam is also a serverless consultant and has helped many startups adopt serverless technologies successfully. We also discussed why it's a no-brainer for startups to choose serverless over containers nowadays!

Links from the episode:

• Sam's new video course, "Master AWS Serverless with 7 Real World Projects", get 20% OFF with the code YAN
• Sam's YouTube channel
• Sam's video using his homemade lightboard
• My "AppSync Masterclass" video course

For more stories about real-world use of serverless technologies, please follow us on Twitter as @RealWorldSls and subscribe to this podcast.

Want to step up your AWS game and learn how to build production-ready serverless applications? Check out my upcoming workshops and I will teach you everything I know.

Opening theme song:
Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

In this episode, I spoke with AWS Serverless Hero Luc van Donkersgoed about how PostNL is using serverless technologies and discussed the challenges of building event-driven architectures and how PostNL tackles problems such as schema validation and testing.

Links from the episode:

• Build cloud-native apps with Serverless interaction testing
• IT vacancies at PostNL
• AWS Distro for OpenTelemtry
• AWS X-Ray vs Lumigo
• My upcoming Testing Serverless Architectures video course

For more stories about real-world use of serverless technologies, please follow us on Twitter as @RealWorldSls and subscribe to this podcast.

Want to step up your AWS game and learn how to build production-ready serverless applications? Check out my upcoming workshops and I will teach you everything I know.

Opening theme song:
Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

In this episode, I caught up with Eoin Shanaghy to talk about his work at FourTheorem, a boutique consultancy based out of Ireland. We touched on many topics, including the challenges for serverless adoption at enterprises and a super interesting client project he worked on, which involved using serverless at scale in a high-performance computing environment.

Links from the episode:

• FourRheorem website
• AWS Bites
• #39: Fighting COVID with serverless with Denis Bauer

For more stories about real-world use of serverless technologies, please follow us on Twitter as @RealWorldSls and subscribe to this podcast.

Want to step up your AWS game and learn how to build production-ready serverless applications? Check out my upcoming workshops and I will teach you everything I know.

Opening theme song:
Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

In this episode, I spoke with Nick Tune and Kacper Gunia to talk about Team Topologies, i.e. how to structure businesses and teams so that you can get stuff done faster. Companies often struggle to adopt modern software development practices and technologies because their team structures are misaligned with the practices they're trying to adopt. In this conversation, we will discuss what is team topologies, having the right incentives and funding models for teams, common anti-patterns, the problems with scrum and so much more! 

Links from the episode:

• London DDD meetup group
• Independent Value Streams with Domain-Driven Design (3h video course)
• teamtopologies.com

For more stories about real-world use of serverless technologies, please follow us on Twitter as @RealWorldSls and subscribe to this podcast.

Want to step up your AWS game and learn how to build production-ready serverless applications? Check out my upcoming workshops and I will teach you everything I know.

Opening theme song:
Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

In this episode, I caught up with Adam Elmore (@aeduhm), AWS DevTools Hero and an active member of the AWS community. We talked about how he passed all 12 AWS certifications in 2 weeks and how they have helped him find success on the AWS IQ platform. We also touched on his new project, public.dev, the general lack of performance-focused site builders, live streaming on Twitch and his plans for a new video course.

Links from the episode:

• Adam's Twitch channel
• AWS IQ
• public.dev
• AppSync Masterclass

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To learn how to build production-ready serverless applications, check out my upcoming workshops.

Opening theme song:
Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

Links from the episode:

• AWS Startup blog: how Emerald Cloud Lab is revolutionizing the laboratory using AWS
• www.emeraldcloudlab.com

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Opening theme song:
Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

Links from the episode:

• Kristi's articles on dev.to
• Kristi's medium blog
• Women Impact Tech conference in Denver
• ServerlessDays Denver
• Serverless Denver user group
• Business Insider article by Kristi

For more stories about real-world use of serverless technologies, please follow us on Twitter as @RealWorldSls and subscribe to this podcast.

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Opening theme song:
Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

Links from the episode:

• momentohq.com
• momento client examples
• meta engineering blog - introducing mcrouter
• mcrouter repo

For more stories about real-world use of serverless technologies, please follow us on Twitter as @RealWorldSls and subscribe to this podcast.

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Opening theme song:
Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

Links from the episode:

• slidebean.com
• recurring.co

For more stories about real-world use of serverless technologies, please follow us on Twitter as @RealWorldSls and subscribe to this podcast.

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Opening theme song:
Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

You can follow Omer Baki and Or Cohen on social media here:

• Omer Baki - LinkedIn
• Or Cohen - LinkedIn

Links from the episode:

• How we built Melio's payments platform on AWS Serverless
• Melio's R&D blog

For more stories about real-world use of serverless technologies, please follow us on Twitter as @RealWorldSls and subscribe to this podcast.

To learn how to build production-ready serverless applications, check out my upcoming workshops.

Opening theme song:
Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

You can follow Nader on twitter as @dabit3

Links from the episode:

• Nader's youtube channel
• The Complete Guide to Full Stack Web3 Development
• Solidify by Example
• Ethereum Dev Speed Run
• The Developer DAO twitter profile
• The Developer DAO hackathon

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To learn how to build production-ready serverless applications, check out my upcoming workshops.

Opening theme song:
Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

You can find Louis on LinkedIn here.

Links from the episode:

• Lumigo
• ACQU's website
• ACQU's LinkedIn page

For more stories about real-world use of serverless technologies, please follow us on Twitter as @RealWorldSls and subscribe to this podcast.

To learn how to build production-ready serverless applications, check out my upcoming workshops.

Opening theme song:
Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

You can find Filip on Twitter as @FilipPyrek

Links:

• Purple Technology blog
• Serverless Brno user group
• Open roles at Purple Technology

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To learn how to build production-ready serverless applications, check out my upcoming workshops.

Opening theme song:
Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

You can find Robbie on LinkedIn here and links to his "This is my architecture" sessions with AWS below.

Links:

• AppSync Masterclass
• TacoBell, this is my architecture (Aurora)
• TacoBell, this is my architecture (order middleware)
• Jobs at TacoBell

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Opening theme song:
Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

You can find Ben on Twitter as @EllerbyBen and click here for the open positions at Theodo.

Links:

• sls-dev-tools: think Chrom dev tool but for serverless
• sls-test-tools: utilities for testing serverless apps
• stackoscope: detect misconfiguration for serverless components

For more stories about real-world use of serverless technologies, please follow us on Twitter as @RealWorldSls and subscribe to this podcast.

To learn how to build production-ready serverless applications, check out my upcoming workshops.

Opening theme song:
Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

You can find Paul on Twitter as @paulswail and 

Links:

• Paul blogs at serverlessfirst.com
• Paul's upcoming book Serverless Test Handbook

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To learn how to build production-ready serverless applications, check out my upcoming workshops.

Opening theme song:
Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

You can find Jack on Twitter as @JackEllis.

Links:

• Jack's post about DDOS on Fathom
• AWS Well-Architected framework
• Serverless Laravel course

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Opening theme song:
Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

You can find Alex on Twitter as @alexbdebrie.

Links:

• The DynamoDB Book
• The DynamoDB Guide (free)
• Alex's blog
• Dynobase
• Ep49: Making DynamoDB more accessible with Rafal Wilinski
• The AppSync Masterclass

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To learn how to build production-ready serverless applications, check out my upcoming workshops.

Opening theme song:
Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

You can find Liam on Twitter here and LinkedIn here.

To learn more about Amplyfi and their services, please go to https://amplyfi.com

And here's the post I mentioned in the chat about the DDOS attack that Fathom experienced.

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Opening theme song:
Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

You can find Swizec on Twitter as @Swizec.

Check out his new book Serverless Handbook here and his blog at swizec.com.

For more stories about real-world use of serverless technologies, please follow us on Twitter as @RealWorldSls and subscribe to this podcast.

To learn how to build production-ready serverless applications, check out my upcoming workshops.

Opening theme song:
Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

You can find Rafal on Twitter as @rafalwilinski.

Links:

• Dynobase - professional DynamoDB UI client
• Open positions at Stedi
• Rafal's blog
• The DynamoDB book by Alex Debrie
• AppSync Masterclass

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To learn how to build production-ready serverless applications, check out my upcoming workshops.

Opening theme song:
Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

You can find Daniele on Twitter as @dfrasca80 and on LinkedIn.

You can see open positions at Prosieben on this site.

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To learn how to build production-ready serverless applications, check out my upcoming workshops.

Opening theme song:
Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

You can find Keston on Linkedin or by email at [email protected].

Check out Squirb at www.squirb.com and FaunaDB at fauna.com.

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To learn how to build production-ready serverless applications, check out my upcoming workshops.

Opening theme song:
Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

You can find Anders on Twitter as @ea_quist and on Linkedin.

Here are the links to things we discussed in the episode:

• Polestar, a Swedish car company where Anders work
• GraphQL Mesh, an interesting technology similar to Apollo Federation

To learn more about opportunities at Polestar, please get in touch with Anders at [email protected].

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To learn how to build production-ready serverless applications, check out my upcoming workshops.

Opening theme song:
Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

You can find Nick on Twitter as @TheNickVanHoof.

Here are the links to things we discussed in the episode:

• Nick’s blog
• Cloudway - a Serverless-focused consultancy where Nick used to work
• AppSync Masterclass, from yours truly ;-)
• Middy’s validator middleware - for doing response validation
• Lumigo, the best observability platform for serverless applications
• ServerlessDays Belgium meetup

For more stories about real-world use of serverless technologies, please follow us on Twitter as @RealWorldSls and subscribe to this podcast.

To learn how to build production-ready serverless applications, check out my upcoming workshops.

Opening theme song:
Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

You can find Ryan on Twitter as @ryanjonesirl.

Get in touch with Ryan and the team at ServerlessGuru at https://serverlessguru.com and check out their podcast TalkingServerless.

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Opening theme song:
Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

You can find Ant on Twitter as @IamStan.

Links to things we discussed in the episode:

• re:invent 2020 in review (serverless) with me and Ant Stanley
• re:invent 2020 in review (containers) with Ant Stanley and Vlad Ionescu
• Ant's new Interrupt publication
• midway framework by Tencent
• How a company racked up $72,000 in GCP bills overnight

Senzo workshops in January:

• Production-Ready Serverless by me
• Running containers on AWS by Vlad Ionescu
• Testing Serverless Applications by Slobodan Stojanovic and Aleksandar Simovic
• Node.js for Serverless by Ant Stanley

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 MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

You can find Ant on Twitter as @IamStan.

Links to things we discussed in the episode:

• re:invent 2020 in review (serverless) with me and Ant Stanley
• re:invent 2020 in review (containers) with Ant Stanley and Vlad Ionescu
• Ant's new Interrupt publication
• midway framework by Tencent
• How a company racked up $72,000 in GCP bills overnight

Senzo workshops in January:

• Production-Ready Serverless by me
• Running containers on AWS by Vlad Ionescu
• Testing Serverless Applications by Slobodan Stojanovic and Aleksandar Simovic
• Node.js for Serverless by Ant Stanley

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 MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

You can find Vadym on Twitter as @VKazulkin and on LinkedIn here.

Here are the frameworks that Vadym mentioned in the show:

• GraalVM
• Micronaut framework
• Quarkus

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 MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

You can find Louis on Twitter as @louism517 and on LinkedIn here.

See open positions at Space Ape Games here and

To learn how to build production-ready Serverless applications, go to productionreadyserverless.com.

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 MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

You can find Denis on Twitter as @allPowerde and on LinkedIn here.

Find out more about the work Denis and CSIRO at bioinformatics.csiro.au.

To learn how to build production-ready Serverless applications, go to productionreadyserverless.com.

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Opening theme song:
Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

You can find Mike on Twitter as @mikebroberts on LinkedIn here.

Here are links to what we discussed in the show:

• Mike's new book, Programming Lambda in Java
• Jeremy Daly's podcast with Mike on ServerlessChats
• Mike's YouTube channel
• Mike's blog

To learn how to build production-ready Serverless applications, go to productionreadyserverless.com.

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 MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

You can find Mike on Twitter as @mikebroberts on LinkedIn here.

Here are links to what we discussed in the show:

• Mike's new book, Programming Lambda in Java
• Jeremy Daly's podcast with Mike on ServerlessChats
• Mike's YouTube channel
• Mike's blog

To learn how to build production-ready Serverless applications, go to productionreadyserverless.com.

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 MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

You can find Ricardo on LinkedIn here.

Here are links to what we discussed in the show:

• Middy middleware engine for javascript function
• Packagephobia to find the cost of adding new dependency to your project
• Vacancies at New10

To learn how to build production-ready Serverless applications, go to productionreadyserverless.com.

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 MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

You can find Lars on Twitter as @lajacobsson and on LinkedIn here.

Here are the tools we talked about in the episode

• Lar's github repos
• aws-tools repoes on Github
• CloudFormation to draw.io generator: cfn-diagram
• IAM policy builder: iam-policies-cli
• SAM policy builder: sam-policies-cli
• EventBridge pattern creator and schema browser: evb-cli
• EventBridge local debugger: evb-local
• VS Code plugin for adding codelens actions to cfn templates
• Lumigo-CLI

Check out opportunities at MatHem here.

To learn how to build production-ready Serverless applications, go to productionreadyserverless.com.

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 MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

You can find Ken on Twitter as @CloudPegboard and on LinkedIn here.

He blogs on medium as well as his own website:

• https://medium.com/@kenrobbins
• https://medium.com/cloudpegboard
• https://cloudpegboard.com

To learn how to build production-ready Serverless applications, go to productionreadyserverless.com.

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 MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

You can find Ken on Twitter as @metaskills.

To learn how to build production-ready Serverless applications, go to productionreadyserverless.com.

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 MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

You can find Michael on Twitter as @hellomichibye and on LinkedIn here.

Here are the links for some of the things we discussed during the show:

• Marbot
• The Cloudonaut blog
• Amazon Web Services in Action, Second Edition
• Michael's other books and video courses
• Serverless Architectures on AWS, Second Edition

To learn how to build production-ready Serverless applications, go to productionreadyserverless.com.

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 MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

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 MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

You can find Marcelo on Twitter as @mfolivas and on Linkedin here.

To learn how to build production-ready Serverless applications, go to productionreadyserverless.com.

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 MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

You can find Alex on Twitter as @alexwwood he blogs at alexwood.codes.

We discussed the Amazon Builder's Library here and the SAM's repos below:

• SAM GitHub: https://aws.amazon.com/builders-library
• SAM CLI GitHub: https://github.com/awslabs/aws-sam-cli

For more stories about real-world use of serverless technologies, please follow us on Twitter as @RealWorldSls and subscribe to this podcast.

This episode is sponsored by ChaosSearch.

Have you heard about ChaosSearch? It’s the fully managed log analytics platform that uses your Amazon S3 storage as the data store! Companies like Armor, HubSpot, Alert Logic and many more are already using ChaosSearch as a critical part of their infrastructure and processing terabytes of log data every day.  Because ChaosSearch uses your Amazon S3 storage, there’s no moving data around, no data retention limits and you can save up to 80% vs other methods of log analysis.  So if you’re sick and tired of your ELK Stack falling over, or having your data retention squeezed by increasing costs, then visit ChaosSearch.io today and join the log analysis revolution!

Opening theme song:
Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

You can find Carl on LinkedIn here and he blog at cloudswithcarl.com.

You can find his upcoming book "Cloud Native Machine Learning" by Manning here.

Manning has kindly offered 40% off all their products to the listeners of this podcast. Use the promo code podrealserv20 during check out.

For more stories about real-world use of serverless technologies, please follow us on Twitter as @RealWorldSls and subscribe to this podcast.

This episode is sponsored by ChaosSearch.

Have you heard about ChaosSearch? It’s the fully managed log analytics platform that uses your Amazon S3 storage as the data store! Companies like Armor, HubSpot, Alert Logic and many more are already using ChaosSearch as a critical part of their infrastructure and processing terabytes of log data every day.  Because ChaosSearch uses your Amazon S3 storage, there’s no moving data around, no data retention limits and you can save up to 80% vs other methods of log analysis.  So if you’re sick and tired of your ELK Stack falling over, or having your data retention squeezed by increasing costs, then visit ChaosSearch.io today and join the log analysis revolution!

Opening theme song:
Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

You can find Dale Salter on Twitter as @enepture.

We spoke extensively about GraphQL in this episode. If you want to learn GraphQL and AppSync with a hands-on tutorial, then check out the AppSync Masterclass.

For more stories about real-world use of serverless technologies, please follow us on Twitter as @RealWorldSls and subscribe to this podcast.

This episode is sponsored by ChaosSearch.

Have you heard about ChaosSearch? It’s the fully managed log analytics platform that uses your Amazon S3 storage as the data store! Companies like Armor, HubSpot, Alert Logic and many more are already using ChaosSearch as a critical part of their infrastructure and processing terabytes of log data every day.  Because ChaosSearch uses your Amazon S3 storage, there’s no moving data around, no data retention limits and you can save up to 80% vs other methods of log analysis.  So if you’re sick and tired of your ELK Stack falling over, or having your data retention squeezed by increasing costs, then visit ChaosSearch.io today and join the log analysis revolution!

Opening theme song:
Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

You can find Gillian on Twitter as @virtualgill.

Liberty Mutual is hiring, check out their jobs:

• UK/Ireland: https://www.liberty-it.co.uk/current-vacancies
• US: https://jobs.libertymutualgroup.com/careers/digital-technology

Click here to listen to episode #18 where we discussed voice technologies with Aleksandar Simovic.

If you want to learn how to apply the well-architected principles to build production-ready serverless applications, then check out my upcoming workshops at productionreadyserverless.com and get 15% OFF with the promo code "yanprs15".

For more stories about real-world use of serverless technologies, please follow us on Twitter as @RealWorldSls and subscribe to this podcast.

This episode is sponsored by ChaosSearch.

Have you heard about ChaosSearch? It’s the fully managed log analytics platform that uses your Amazon S3 storage as the data store! Companies like Armor, HubSpot, Alert Logic and many more are already using ChaosSearch as a critical part of their infrastructure and processing terabytes of log data every day.  Because ChaosSearch uses your Amazon S3 storage, there’s no moving data around, no data retention limits and you can save up to 80% vs other methods of log analysis.  So if you’re sick and tired of your ELK Stack falling over, or having your data retention squeezed by increasing costs, then visit ChaosSearch.io today and join the log analysis revolution!

Opening theme song:
Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

You can find Heitor on Twitter as @heitor_lessa.

Here are the resources that were mentioned during the show:

• Well-Architected framework
• Well-Architected framework Serverless Application Lens
• The serverless-airline example project
• The serverless-ecommerce example project
• The CDK Patterns project by Matt Coulter
• How Alma Media is using AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK)
• AWS Lambda Powertools (Python)
• DAZN Lambda Powertools (Node.js)
• Amazon Leadership Principles

And check out the episode with Alma Media which was mentioned in this week's episode: 

• #23: Serverless at Alma Media with Ari Palo

If you want to learn how to apply the well-architected principles discussed in this episode and build production-ready serverless applications, then check out my upcoming workshops at productionreadyserverless.com and get 15% OFF with the promo code "yanprs15".

For more stories about real-world use of serverless technologies, please follow us on Twitter as @RealWorldSls and subscribe to this podcast.

This episode is sponsored by ChaosSearch.

Have you heard about ChaosSearch? It’s the fully managed log analytics platform that uses your Amazon S3 storage as the data store! Companies like Armor, HubSpot, Alert Logic and many more are already using ChaosSearch as a critical part of their infrastructure and processing terabytes of log data every day.  Because ChaosSearch uses your Amazon S3 storage, there’s no moving data around, no data retention limits and you can save up to 80% vs other methods of log analysis.  So if you’re sick and tired of your ELK Stack falling over, or having your data retention squeezed by increasing costs, then visit ChaosSearch.io today and join the log analysis revolution!

Opening theme song:
Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

You can find Zack on Twitter as @zackkanter.

Here is the ARC410 session from re:invent 2019 that Zack mentioned in the show.

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 MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

You can find Ari Palo on Twitter as @aripalo and his LinkedIn profile here.
Also, check out his new blog at aripalo.com.

Here are links to the tools we mentioned in the show:

• lumigo-cli
• aws-lambda-power-tuning
• dazn-lambda-powertools

And the previous episodes we touched on:

• #12: Serverless at LEGO with Nicole Yip and Sheen Brisals
• #3: Building a fully serverless insurance company with Joe Emison

NOTE: since we recorded the show, AppSync has added caching support for nested resolvers!

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 MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

You can find Gojko Adzic on Twitter as @gojkoadzic and his books:

• Impact Mapping
• Specification by Example
• Running Serverless

Check out his latest projects:

• MindMup
• Video Puppet

In the show, we also talked about the Ports and Adapter (or Hexagonal Architectures) pattern, which you can read more about here. This topic was also explored in length during Episode 18 with Aleksandar Simovic and Slobodan Stojanovic.

If you want to have an easier time debugging serverless applications, then also check out Lumigo, and you can get 15% off your monthly bill with the code "Yan15"

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 MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

You can find Ionut Craciunescu on Twitter as @icraciunescu. Check out his medium posts here. You can also find Wealth Wizard's engineering blog here, and their GitHub projects here.

This is the talk by Simon Wardley that Ionut mentioned in the episode:
Crossing the River by Feeling the Stones

And here is the earlier episode where I talked about FinDev and Wardley Mapping with Aleksandar Simovic and Slobodan Stojanovic:
#17: FinDev and Wardley mapping with Aleksandar Simovic and Slobodan Stojanovic

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 MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

You can find Michael on LinkedIn 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 MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

You can find Uri on Twitter as @uri82042753.

To listen to the conversation we had with Aleksandar Simovic and Slobodan Stojanovic on FinDev, check out Episode 17.

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 MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

SPECIAL OFFER: get 40% off all Manning books/videos with the code "podrealserv20" at manning.com

You can find Aleks as @simalexan on Twitter, and Slobodan as @slobodan_.

They are running back-to-back courses this month, on "Testing Serverless Applications" and "Serverless for Frontend Developers". Check them out and enrol on Homeschool.dev.

Also, check out their book "Serverless Applications with Node.js" by Manning, and Claudia.js, one of the first deployment frameworks for serverless applications.

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 MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

SPECIAL OFFER: get 40% off all Manning books/videos with the code "podrealserv20" at manning.com

You can find Aleks as @simalexan on Twitter, and Slobodan as @slobodan_.

They are running back-to-back courses this month, on "Testing Serverless Applications" and "Serverless for Frontend Developers". Check them out and enrol on Homeschool.dev.

Also, check out their book "Serverless Applications with Node.js" by Manning, and Claudia.js, one of the first deployment frameworks for serverless applications.

If you want to learn about Wardley Maps, then you can read the free book on Medium here, or take the online video course here.

To listen to the conversion we had with Joe Emison (mentioned in this conversation) about monorepoes and build vs. buy, check out Episode 2, and Episode 3 respectively.

And lastly, check out Furnace.io for a data-shipping platform (like Segment) that offers usage-based pricing.

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 MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

You can find Tom as @tomincode on Twitter, and you can find his blog at https://www.thomasmichaelwallace.com.

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 MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday/
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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-process

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 MacLeod
Link: 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 MacLeod
Link: 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 MacLeod
Link: 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 MacLeod
Link: 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 Packt
• Advanced Serverless Architectures with Microsoft Azure by Packt

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 MacLeod
Link: 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 MacLeod
Link: 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-serverless

The best site for information about DVLA's cloud academy programme and other roles is
https://www.49millionreasonsto.co.uk

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Opening theme song:
Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeod
Link: 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.

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Opening theme song:
Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeod
Link: 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 MacLeod
Link: 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 MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday/
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

This is part 2 of my conversation with Olaf Conijn and Tjerk Stroband at Moneyou, a Dutch bank based here in Amsterdam, Netherlands. We discussed the challenges Moneyou has faced with AWS Organizations and the difficulty of managing a complex AWS environment using the built-in tools. And why they built and open-sourced org-formation as a way for you to manage your entire AWS organization using infrastructure-as-code (IAC).

In part 1, we discussed Moneyou's journey towards serverless over the last 2 years and why it serverless makes sense to Moneyou. We talked a lot about risk and many of the misconceptions about risk when it comes to serverless. And of course, vendor lock-in was a big part of that discussion! It's refreshing to see a bank approach serverless and the vendor lock-in debate with such thoughtfulness rather than just following the mainstream narrative without understanding the underlying risks first.

You can find Olaf on Twitter as @OConijn and check out org-formation.

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 MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday/
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

This is part 1 of my conversation with Olaf Conijn and Tjerk Stroband at Moneyou, a Dutch bank based here in Amsterdam, Netherlands. We discussed Moneyou's journey towards serverless over the last 2 years and why it serverless makes sense to Moneyou. We talked a lot about risk and many of the misconceptions around risk when it comes to serverless. And of course, vendor lock-in was a big part of that discussion. It's refreshing to see a bank approach serverless and the vendor lock-in debate with such thoughtfulness rather than just following the mainstream narrative without understanding the underlying risks first.

In part 2, we will talk about the challenges Moneyou has faced with AWS Organizations and the difficulty of managing a complex AWS environment using the built-in tools. And why they built and open-sourced org-formation as a way for you to manage your entire AWS organization using infrastructure-as-code (IAC).

You can find Olaf on Twitter as @OConijn and check out org-formation.

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 MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday/
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

This is part 2 of my conversation with Joe Emison, who has been building serverless applications since 2015 with Firebase on GCP and then later with AWS Lambda. We talked Joe's recruitment philosophy for Branch Insurance, where he primarily hires junior frontend developers, for two very pragmatic reasons. We also talked about pain points that Joe sees with adopting serverless today and why Microsoft will be the main challenger to AWS in the cloud computing market.

In part 1, we discussed the value of serverless, especially to startups, and why he has built Branch Insurance to be fully serverless. Joe is a strong proponent for the monorepo approach, and we had a good chat about why he feels so strongly about this approach and how his team structures their application in a monorepo. And of course, we also covered the pain points of this approach and the tradeoffs his team has accepted.

You can find Joe on Twitter as @JoeEmison and check out his new venture gobranch.com.

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 MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday/
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

This is part 1 of my conversation with Joe Emison, who has been building serverless applications since 2015 with Firebase on GCP and then later with AWS Lambda. We discussed the value of serverless, especially to startups, and why he has built Branch Insurance to be fully serverless. Joe is a strong proponent for the monorepo approach, and we had a good chat about why he feels so strongly about this approach and how his team structures their application in a monorepo. And of course, we also covered the pain points of this approach and the tradeoffs his team has accepted.

In part 2, we will talk about how serverless has changed his recruitment philosophy, the pain points with adopting serverless and why Microsoft will be the main challenger to AWS in the cloud computing market.

You can find Joe on Twitter as @JoeEmison and check out his new venture gobranch.com.

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 MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday/
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

I caught up with Ricardo Espirito Santo to talk about Zoopla and how they're using serverless, their experience with it so far and the challenges they have experienced with serverless technologies.

You can find Ricardo on Twitter as @ricardoespsant and check out Zoopla's open positions 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 MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday/
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/