A podcast where we talk about real-world use of Serverless technologies from engineers who work with them day-to-day. We will discuss use cases, why they chose serverless and the pain points and challenges they face. If you want to know what it's REALLY like to work with serverless, this is the show for you.
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This is a podcast of the Project on Autocratic Legalism (PAL). PAL seeks to understand how law can be used to further, as well as to resist autocratic forces that have been on the rise around the globe. The project involves scholars from multiple countries and disciplines. PAL participants are currently conducting research on autocratic legalism in Brazil, India, and South Africa. Learn more about our project at autocratic-legalism.net. In this podcast, we will share some of the conceptual d ...
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#109: Building serverless apps in PHP with Bref | ft Matthieu Napoli
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Thank you to Momento for supporting this episode. Momento's real-time data platform empowers developers to build innovative products faster and more reliably than ever before. Visit gomomento.co/theburningmonk for more information. In this episode, I spoke with Matthieu Napoli about the Bref framework for developing serverless applications in PHP -…
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#108: Lambda on Rust with James Eastham
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Thank you to Hookdeck for sponsoring this episode. If you're looking to level-up your event-driven architecture, then check out their serverless event gateway at hookdeck.com/theburningmonk and help support this channel. James Eastham is a developer advocate at Datadog and co-author of "Crafting Lambda Functions in Rust". In this episode, we dive i…
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#107: How to Have a Successful Cloud Career in 2024 | ft. Andrew Brown
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Thank you to Momento for supporting this episode. Momento's real-time data platform empowers developers to build innovative products faster and more reliably than ever before. Visit gomomento.co/theburningmonk for more information. I spoke with Andrew Brown, renowned educator in the cloud space, to get his take on how cloud learners can break into …
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#106: Rust with Lambda, easy-mode Rust & future of Middy | ft. Luciano Mammino
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Thank you to Hookdeck for sponsoring this episode. If you're looking to level-up your event-driven architecture, then check out their serverless event gateway at hookdeck.com/theburningmonk and help support this channel. AWS Serverless Hero Luciano Mammino shares the history of Middy, the popular middleware engine for AWS Lambda functions; why he's…
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#105: The inception story of Cognito & secret to succeeding at AWS | ft. David Behroozi
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Thank you to Momento for supporting this episode. Momento's real-time data platform empowers developers to build innovative products faster and more reliably than ever before. Visit gomomento.co/theburningmonk for more information. David Behroozi, a 15-year Amazon veteran, tells us the inception story of Amazon Cognito and the cheat code for succee…
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#104: Baseline, is this new serverless development framework better than Amplify?
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Thank you to Hookdeck for sponsoring this episode. If you're looking to level-up your event-driven architecture, then check out their serverless event gateway at hookdeck.com/theburningmonk and help support this podcast. Thomas Nixon, CTO of Baseline, shares stories from the trenches about the challenges of adopting serverless technologies. He gave…
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#103 - Community building, being an enable, is serverless dead? ft. Allen Helton
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Thank you to Hookdeck for sponsoring this episode. Please check them out and help support this podcast. Allen Helton on being an enabler, building communities, and is serverless dead? Links from the episode: Help Olivia's Fight Against Leukemia! Believe In Serverless community Ready, Set, Cloud! Momento, serverless cache Ep102: Peek behind the curt…
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#20 – Sindiso MnisiWeeks and the Case for an Alter-Native Constitutionalism in South Africa
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Today, Fabio talks to Sindiso MnisiWeeks. Sindiso is Associate Professor in Legal Studies and Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Adjunct Associate Professor in Public Law at the University of Cape Town (UCT). She is currently finishing a monograph titled “Alter-Native Constitutionalism: Common-ing ‘Common’ Law, Transfo…
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#19 – Dee Smythe, Michelle LeRoux, and Dennis Davis on "state capture" and South African democracy
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Today, Fabio talks to Dee Smythe (UCT honorary), Michelle Leroux (UCT and Wits), and Dennis Davis (UCT Emeritus). Fabio and his guests focus mostly on the piece that the latter wrote for the PAL project, titled “What Future for Constitutional Democracy in South Africa?,” which was published in 2022, in VRÜ/World Comparative Law. That piece argues t…
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#102: Building AWS communities with Farrah Campbell
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Take a peek behind the AWS Heroes and Community Builders programmes with Farrah Campbell, who was a former AWS hero turned AWS employee. Nowadays, Farrah heads up both the AWS Heroes and Community Builders programmes. Links from the episode: How to become an AWS hero by Danielle Heberling S3 no longer charges for unauthorized requests AWS Heroes di…
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#101: Faster serverless APIs with Brian LeRoux
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In this episode, I spoke with Brian LeRoux, co-founder of begin.com and creator of the Architect framework. Brian is also an AWS Serverless Hero and is currently working on enhance.dev, an HTML-first full-stack web framework. In a wide-ranging conversation, we discussed: the Architect framework Lambdalith vs. Single-purpose functions Building a fas…
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#100: LocalStack v3 is here and it's kinda amazing!
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In this episode, I spoke with Waldemar Hummer, founder and CTO of LocalStack. We discussed what's new in the latest version of LocalStack and highlighted some of the most interesting additions. One particular highlight for me is the ability to identify IAM permission errors between direct service integrations. For example, when an EventBridge pipe …
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#99: Azure Functions deep dive with Ian Griffiths
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In this episode, I spoke with Ian Griffiths, a Technical Fellow at Endjin, a Microsoft MVP, and the author of O'Reilly's Programming C# 10.0. In this episode, we took a deep dive into Azure Functions, how it works and how it differs (significantly) from AWS Lambda. Links from the episode: Bye bye Azure Functions, hello Azure Container Apps WASI (We…
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#98: How DAZN streams live sports to millions of concurrent viewers
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In this episode, I spoke with Bob Hannent, the principal architect of DAZN's video playback and delivery system. This system is responsible for streaming live sporting events to millions of concurrent viewers. We discussed the many challenges that come with streaming live videos at scale. How to ensure uptime even when your CDN partners suffer an o…
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#18 – Three Students on Democratic Legalism in the US
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Today, Fabio talks to Konrad Sartorius, Caleb Wisinger, and David Taitano – three students in the Masters of International Affairs program at the University of Oklahoma. Konrad and Caleb attended a course on Autocratic Legalism taught by Fabio. With David, they built on what they learned with Fabio to develop a project for another course, which the…
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#97: 10x Lambda cold start performance with LLRT
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In this episode, I spoke with Richard Davison, the creator of the new LLRT (Low Latency Runtime) for Lambda. We talked about the motivation for a specialised JavaScript runtime for Lambda, how it achieves the insane cold start time and the trade-offs they had to make. Links from the episode: GitHub repo for LLRT API compatibility list QuickJs engin…
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#96: How Fathom saved $100k/year in their AWS bill
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In this episode, I spoke with Jack Ellis, who is a co-founder of Fathom. We into the cost optimizations that he used to save Fathom $100k/year on their AWS bill. Links from the episode: Fathom's technical blog Jack's personal page Jack's newsletter Opening theme song: Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-c…
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#95: How Dunelm went from on-prem to serverless while going faster
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In this episode, I spoke with Mark White, who is a principal engineer at Dunelm, a leading home furnishing retailer in the UK. We talked about Dunelm's journey from on-premise infrastructure to serverless and how they stayed agile while migrating their systems to this new paradigm safely. We discussed the challenges of shifting the engineering cult…
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#94: Serverless Framework v4 with Austen Collins
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In this episode, I spoke with Austen Collins, founder and CEO of Serverless Inc. about the upcoming release of Serverless Framework v4. We talked about the origin of the Serverless Framework and the challenges it faces. We discussed the rationale behind the upcoming changes in v4. Including the ability to easily switch between containers and Lambda…
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#17 – Deepa Das Acevedo, Mohsin A. Bhat, and Mayur Suresh on India, the Modi moment, and autocratic legalism
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Today Fabio talks to Deepa Das Acevedo (Emory University Law School), Mohsin A. Bhat (Queen Mary University of London School of Law), and Mayur Suresh (SOAS School of Law). The conversation hinges mostly around the piece the guests wrote to the PAL project, titled “Authoritarianism in Indian State, Law, and Society" and published in 2022 in the Wor…
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#93: Building serverless AI apps with Sam Williams
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In this episode, I spoke with Sam Williams about his drive for work-life balance and discussed his experience of building AI-powered apps using serverless technologies. Links from the episode: Sam's YouTube channel OpenAI's Vision API smol-developer Episode 92 with Shawn Wang Production-Ready Serverless workshop Sam's course Luc van Donkersgoed's a…
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#92 - Rise of the AI Engineer with Shawn Wang
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In this episode, I spoke with Shawn Wang, who coined the term "AI Engineer" as a new title for engineers who are building the chains and agents that powers AI applications. This is likely to be the highest-demand engineering job of the decade. We talked about the evolution of software development and how AI is changing everything. And why ambitious…
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#91: DevOps Reimagined with Patrick deBois on the Future of AI and DevOps
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In this episode, I spoke with Patrick deBois, who is known as the "father of DevOps" as he coined the term "DevOps" in 2009. In a wide-ranging conversation, we talked about the evolution of DevOps, what it means in 2023 and how it related to "Platform Engineering". We also talked about AI, how AI technologies are impacting software development, and…
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#90: He built a hotel booking system that costs $0.82/month to run
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In this episode, I spoke with Hieu Do, who is a Solution Architect at FPT Software in Vietnam. As a side project, he built a hotel booking system for a friend using entirely serverless technologies. He shared his experience and learnings from building this system and how he was able to keep the cost down. After running the system for a year, the sy…
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#89: Hashnode's serverless architecture with Sandro Volpicella
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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 platfo…
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#88: Optimizing Lambda cold starts with AJ Stuyvenberg
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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…
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#16 – Raquel Pimenta on Brazilian PAL Studies, Bolsonaro, and Zones of Authoritarianism
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Today, Fabio talks to Raquel Pimenta. Raquel is a law professor at the FGV Law School in São Paulo, which has been the primary site of PAL research in Brazil. Their team, which Raquel helped lead, has just produced a forthcoming edited book on Bolsonaro’s rule and its relationship with the law, which comprises 13 chapters and involved 22 contributo…
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#87: Anton Babenko on Serverless.TF and the Terraform licensing fiasco
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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 initiat…
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PALcast host, Fabio de Sa e Silva, explains what he and his guests will be discussing during season 3 of PALcast. His primary focus will be on the papers published by PAL collaborators in a special issue of the World Comparative Law journal, released in early 2023. This special issue includes in-depth studies on Brazil, India, South Africa, Hungary…
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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 …
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#85: CDK Dos and Don'ts with Matthew Bonig
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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 La…
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#84: Deploying on Fridays with Charity Majors
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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: Honeyc…
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#83: Unpacking Google's latest AI announcements with Gerard Sans
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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. W…
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#82: Big things are coming for Lambda Powertools with Heitor Lessa
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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 publi…
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#81: Overview of AI development with LangChain with Matt Carey
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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 …
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#80: Is AWS Bedrock the OpenAI killer, with Randall Hunt
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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 …
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#79: The meaninglessness of serverless with Ben Kehoe
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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 defend…
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#78: Out with legacy lock-in with Eduard Bargues
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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 …
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#77: Microfrontends with Luca Mezzalira
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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 t…
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#76: Optimizing AWS cost with Erik Peterson
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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-…
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#75: Building open source community around SST with Dax Raad
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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, …
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#74: The Litmus test for serverless with Kirk Kirkconnell
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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 …
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#73: Innovating a 175 years old company with serverless with Vijai Ramcharan
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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 th…
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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 …
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#71: Avoiding common AWS mistakes with Ben Bridts
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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'…
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#70: Serverless at LEGO with Sarah Hamilton
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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 serverl…
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#69: Teaching the world about Serverless with Sam Williams
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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…
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#68: Event-driven architecture at PostNL with Luc van Donkersgoed
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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 vaca…
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Today, Fabio talks about the accomplishments of season 2 and what he had to leave for season 3. He also announces a short break and shares information about this call for paper through which PAL is recruiting collaborators for its next phase: https://autocratic-legalism.net/call-for-papers-sep-22/ If you want to work with us, take a look at the cal…
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#14 – Sofia Rolim on Bolsonaro, public safety, and engaging with PAL as a Brazilian graduate student
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In the last two episodes of this season, Fabio interviews two students who were engaged with PAL, and the themes we are exploring through the Project. Today he talks to Sofia Rolim, a Master's Student at FGV Law School in São Paulo, Brazil, one of the main institutions behind the PAL project. At FGV, Sofia took a seminar on autocratic legalism, led…
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