Real World Serverless with theburningmonk

#49: Making DynamoDB more accessible with Rafal Wilinski

Wed, 03 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000

You can find Rafal on Twitter as @rafalwilinski.

Links:

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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

#48: Serverless at scale at Prosieben TV with Daniele Frasca

Wed, 17 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000

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

You can see open positions at Prosieben on this site.

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

#47: Building an Instagram for DJs with FaunaDB with Keston Crandall

Wed, 03 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000

You can find Keston on Linkedin or by email at keston@squirb.com.

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

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

#46: Serverless at Polestar with Anders Quist

Wed, 27 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

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 anders@qinfo.se.

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

#45: Real-World Serverless with Nick van Hoof

Wed, 20 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

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

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

#44: Real-World Serverless with Ryan Jones

Wed, 13 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

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.

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

#43: Real-World Serverless with Ant Stanley (part 2)

Wed, 30 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000

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

#42: Real-World Serverless with Ant Stanley (part 1)

Wed, 23 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000

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

#41: The future of JVM on Lambda with Vadym Kazulkin

Wed, 16 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000

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

Here are the frameworks that Vadym 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

#40: Serverless at Space Ape Games with Louis McCormack

Wed, 09 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000

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

#39: Fighting COVID with serverless with Denis Bauer

Wed, 02 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000

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.

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

#38: Serverless in the Enterprise with Mike Roberts

Wed, 18 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000

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

#37: Programming Lambda in Java with Mike Roberts

Wed, 11 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000

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

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

#36: Serverless at New10 with Ricardo Torres

Wed, 04 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000

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

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

#35: Serverless at MatHem with Lars Jacobsson

Wed, 28 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000

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

#34: Survive AWS information overload with Ken Robbins

Wed, 21 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0100

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

He blogs on medium as well as his own website:

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

#33: Serverless at Custom Ink with Ken Collins

Wed, 14 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0100

You can find Ken on Twitter as @metaskills.

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

#32: Serverless chatbot with Michael Wittig

Wed, 07 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0100

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:

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

#31: Stop forum spammers at the edge with CloudFlare Workers

Wed, 30 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0100

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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

#30: Serverless at TIKD with Marcelo Olivas

Wed, 23 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0100

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

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

#29: SAM 1.0 with Alex Wood

Wed, 16 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0100

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

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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

#28: Serverless Machine Learning with Carl Osipov

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0100

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.

#27: Serverless at A Cloud Guru with Dale Salter

Wed, 02 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0100

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.

#26: Serverless chatbots with Gillian Armstrong

Wed, 26 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0100

You can find Gillian on Twitter as @virtualgill.

Liberty Mutual is hiring, check out their jobs:

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

#25: Well-Architected Serverless with Heitor Lessa

Wed, 19 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0100

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

#24: Serverless at Stedi with Zack Kanter

Wed, 12 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0100

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

#23: Serverless at Alma Media with Ari Palo

Wed, 05 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0100

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:

And the previous episodes we touched on:

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

#22: Real-World Serverless with Gojko Adzic

Wed, 29 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0100

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

Check out his latest projects:

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

#21: From K8 to Serverless at Wealth Wizards

Wed, 22 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0100

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

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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

#20: Serverless at Fender with Michael Garski

Wed, 15 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0100

You can find Michael on LinkedIn 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

#19: Serverless observability with Lumigo and Uri Parush

Wed, 08 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0100

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.

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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

#18: Hexagonal architecture and voice with Aleksandar Simovic and Slobodan Stojanovic

Wed, 01 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0100

#17: FinDev and Wardley mapping with Aleksandar Simovic and Slobodan Stojanovic

Wed, 24 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0100

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

#16: Meta-programming Lambda functions with Tom Wallace

Wed, 17 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0100

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/

#15: Serverless at iRobot with Ben Kehoe

Wed, 10 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0100

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

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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

#14: Serverless data streaming with Anahit Pogosova

Wed, 03 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0100

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/

#13: What's new from Serverless Inc. with Gareth McCumskey

Wed, 27 May 2020 00:00:00 +0100

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/

#12: Serverless at LEGO with Nicole Yip and Sheen Brisals

Wed, 20 May 2020 00:00:00 +0100

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/

#11: Serverless at M&G Investments with Daniel Bass

Wed, 13 May 2020 00:00:00 +0100

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:

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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/

#10: Serverless at DAZN with Daniel Wright and Sara Gerion

Wed, 06 May 2020 00:00:00 +0100

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/

#9: Serverless at DVLA with Matt Lewis and Chris Williams

Wed, 29 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0100

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/

#8: Serverless at LifeWorks with Scott Smethurst and Diana Ionita (Part 2)

Wed, 22 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0100

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/

#7: Serverless at LifeWorks with Scott Smethurst and Diana Ionita (Part 1)

Wed, 15 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0100

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.

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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/

#6: Serverless at TotallyMoney with Nick Blair and Steve Westwood

Wed, 08 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0100

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.

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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/

#5: Managing complex AWS organizations at Moneyou

Wed, 01 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0100

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.

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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/

#4: Understanding risk and vendor lock-in at Moneyou

Wed, 25 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000

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/

#3: Building a fully serverless insurance company with Joe Emison

Wed, 18 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000

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.

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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/

#2: The case for monorepoes with Joe Emison

Wed, 11 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000

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/

#1: Serverless at Zoopla with Ricardo Espirito Santo

Tue, 18 Feb 2020 20:00:00 +0000

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.

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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/