Real World Serverless with theburningmonk

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 s...

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. Openin...

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...

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...

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...

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, acti...

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 serv...

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 th...

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 va...

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...

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 in...

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...

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 M...

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 th...

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...