#88: Optimizing Lambda cold starts with AJ Stuyvenberg

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