Yan Cui

Real World Serverless with theburningmonk

Technology EN ↓ 115 episodes

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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Yan Cui

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#65: Finding success on AWS IQ with Adam Elmore 16.08.2022 49:37

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...

#64: Revolutionising scientific experiments with Emerald Cloud Lab 05.07.2022 27:12

Links from the episode: AWS Startup blog: how Emerald Cloud Lab is revolutionizing the laboratory using AWS www.emeraldcloudlab.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 M...

#63: CDK at Liberty Mutual with Kristi Prreault 21.06.2022 30:27

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. To learn how to build production-ready serverless...

#62: Solve the challenges with serverless caching with Khawaja Shams 31.05.2022 32:02

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. To learn how to build production-ready serverless applications, check out my upcoming workshops . Opening theme song: Cheery Monday by Ke...

#61: Serverless at Slidebean 05.04.2022 29:46

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. 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-mo...

#60: Building a serverless payment platform at Melio 23.03.2022 44:03

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 server...

#59: Introduction to web3 with Nader Dabit 09.03.2022 38:02

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

#58: Building a serverless crypto platform with Louis Quaintance 12.01.2022 37:35

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 Ma...

#57: Serverless at Purple Technology with Filip Pyrek 24.11.2021 23:29

You can find Filip on Twitter as @FilipPyrek Links: Purple Technology blog Serverless Brno user group Open roles at Purple Technology 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...

#56: Serverless at TacoBell with Robbie Kohler 21.09.2021 41:00

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

#55: Serverless at Theodo with Ben Ellerby 22.06.2021 43:04

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 t...

#54: Serverless testing with Paul Swail 15.06.2021 35:31

You can find Paul on Twitter as @paulswail and Links: Paul blogs at serverlessfirst.com Paul's upcoming book Serverless Test Handbook 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:...

#53: Fighting DDOS at Fathom with Jack Ellis 25.05.2021 32:27

You can find Jack on Twitter as @JackEllis . Links: Jack's post about DDOS on Fathom AWS Well-Architected framework Serverless Laravel course 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...

#52: Talking DynamoDB with Alex DeBrie 04.05.2021 51:38

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 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 ap...

#51: Real-world serverless at Amplyfi with Liam Betsworth 20.04.2021 36:25

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. 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 produ...

#50: Making serverless more accessible for frontend engineers with Swizec Teller 30.03.2021 37:00

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 K...

#49: Making DynamoDB more accessible with Rafal Wilinski 03.03.2021 47:10

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 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,...

#48: Serverless at scale at Prosieben TV with Daniele Frasca 17.02.2021 44:34

You can find Daniele on Twitter as @dfrasca80 and on LinkedIn . You can see open positions at Prosieben on this site . 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 Kevi...

#47: Building an Instagram for DJs with FaunaDB with Keston Crandall 03.02.2021 22:27

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 . 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 Monda...

#46: Serverless at Polestar with Anders Quist 27.01.2021 38:24

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 . For more stories about real-world use of serverless technolo...

#45: Real-World Serverless with Nick van Hoof 20.01.2021 1:04:44

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...

#44: Real-World Serverless with Ryan Jones 13.01.2021 47:41

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.f...

#43: Real-World Serverless with Ant Stanley (part 2) 30.12.2020 27:32

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...

#42: Real-World Serverless with Ant Stanley (part 1) 23.12.2020 36:38

#41: The future of JVM on Lambda with Vadym Kazulkin 16.12.2020 38:53

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/3...