The AWS Developers Podcast

Join us in this enlightening episode as our hosts Linda and Dave get an opportunity to dig deep into the fascinating world of gaming and cloud services with David Heidt, Senior Solutions Architect, Games for Amazon Web Services. From his transition to the cloud to his entrance into the gaming industry, David’s story is one of passion, innovation, and relentless dedication. As a perimeter defense s...

In this episode, Dave and Emily have an enlightening chat with Meet Bhagdev, Principal Product Manager for Amazon Keyspaces at AWS. Venture with us into the world of serverless Cassandra-compatible databases as we uncover the power and benefits of Amazon Keyspaces. Meet helps us understand what it's like to steer the product ship at AWS, and the journey he embarked on to reach this exciting role....

Join us in this insightful episode as we welcome back the inimitable Brian Tarbox, an AWS Community Hero and Alexa Champion, whose expertise is steeped in over thirty years of hands-on experience in the tech industry. With an impressive track record that includes ten patents, a slew of papers under his belt, and the co-leadership of the Boston AWS Meetup, Brian's insights are nothing short of inva...

🎙️ In this exciting episode, our hosts Dave and the always charismatic Linda Haviv embark on an exhilarating journey of AWS Learning with Morgan Willis, Principal Cloud Technologist with Amazon Web Services and Training. 🌟 Looking to learn AWS? It can be such a daunting task, and where do you even know how to start? Fear not! Morgan has a wealth of experience in this area and covers everything yo...

Join your dynamic duo, Brooke and Dave, as they sit down with Stuart Clark, Sr. Developer Advocate, AWS Community Engagement Team, and Du’An Lightfoot, Sr. Cloud Networking Developer Advocate AWS Infrastructure specialist team. Developer Advocates and hosts of the popular Twitch show, Big Dev Theory, Du'an and Stuart have set the virtual stage ablaze with their infectious passion for building solu...

Tune in to this week's episode as our hosts, Emily and Dave, sit down with none other than Alex Wood, Senior Software Engineer, AWS Serverless Developer Experience. In this candid discussion, Alex shares his remarkable 12-year journey at Amazon that saw him spearhead the development of the AWS Ruby SDK and led him to become part of the early Serverless era. Want to dive deeper into the nuts and bo...

Join hosts Emily and Dave as they sit down with Lindbergh Matillano, Director of Cloud Cost Optimization at Avalara. In this engaging episode, Lindbergh uncovers the untold secrets behind Avalara's remarkable success in achieving consistent year-over-year cost reductions. Tune in to discover how Avalara strategically embraced AWS Marketplace, resulting in significant time and monetary savings. Lin...

Ready for a deep dive into the enthralling world of AI and ML? Buckle up, because in this episode, your hosts Linda and Dave are joined by a luminary in the field, Alyssa Lee, an AI/ML Customer Success Lead at Amazon Web Services. Alyssa, who is on the frontline of developer productivity, will pull back the curtain on her team's strategy as they work with the Builder's Experience Portfolio (BEX)....

Get ready to supercharge your coding experience in our latest episode! Join our dynamic duo, Brooke and Dave, as they dive deep into the world of Rust with none other than Tim McNamara, the celebrated author of 'Rust in Action' and the mastermind behind Accelerant, a cutting-edge Rust Coaching, Training, and Consulting firm. In this episode, Tim opens up about his unique journey as a developer, co...

In this episode, Dave and Linda sit down with Johannes Koch, a Sr. DevOps Engineer, Developer Experience at FICO. As an AWS Community Builder, an AWS Usergroup Leader, and veteran speaker at AWS Community Days and AWS re:Invent, Johannes brings a wealth of experience to the table. Get ready to dive deep into Johannes' developer journey, as he recounts his first foray into the world of CI/CD and au...

In this exhilarating episode, join Dave and special co-host Viktoria Semaan, Senior Developer Advocate from AWS Developer Relations, as they reconnect with Doug Clauson, Principal Product Manager Technical for AWS Developer Tools, and Harry Mower, GM for AWS DevOps Tools at AWS. Get the inside scoop on the highly anticipated General Availability launch of Amazon CodeCatalyst! Amazon CodeCatalyst i...

In this episode, hosts Emily and Dave continue their conversation with Jody Bailey, CTO of Stack Overflow. Renowned for its public Q&A platform that caters to over 100 million visitors each month, Stack Overflow is dedicated to empowering individuals with the knowledge and tools they need to excel in the world of technology. With a diverse portfolio including Stack Overflow for Teams, Advertising,...

In this episode, hosts Emily and Dave engage in a captivating conversation with Jody Bailey, CTO of Stack Overflow. Renowned for its public Q&A platform that caters to over 100 million visitors each month, Stack Overflow is dedicated to empowering individuals with the knowledge and tools they need to excel in the world of technology. With a diverse portfolio including Stack Overflow for Teams, Adv...

Linda and Dave chat again with Jay Clifford, Developer Advocate at InfluxData. InfluxData are the makers of InfluxDB, a popular open-source platform for simplifying time series data management. Designed to handle high speed and high volume data ingest and real-time data analysis, InfluxDB's robust data collectors, common API across the entire platform, highly performant time series engine, and opt...

In this episode, Linda, Emily, and Dave chat with Jon Handler, Sr. Principal Solutions Architect at AWS, and Ashok Thirunarayanan, Senior SDM, Search Service at AWS. Amazon OpenSearch Serverless is an on-demand serverless configuration for Amazon OpenSearch Service. Serverless removes the operational complexities of provisioning, configuring, and tuning your OpenSearch clusters. It's a good option...

In this episode, Linda and Dave chat with Jay Clifford, Developer Advocate at InfluxData. InfluxData are the makers of InfluxDB, a popular open-source platform for simplifying time series data management. Designed to handle high speed and high volume data ingest and real-time data analysis, InfluxDB's robust data collectors, common API across the entire platform, highly performant time series engi...

In this episode, Emily and Dave chat with Jason Yee, Staff Technical Evangelist at Datadog. Datadog is an essential monitoring and security platform for cloud applications offering end traces, metrics, and logs to help make your applications, infrastructure, and third-party services entirely observable. Jason covers how developers can best think of observability, the helpful tenants of LIFT (laten...

In this episode, Brooke and Dave chat with Caroline Gluck, Senior Cloud Application Architect at AWS. Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations (AIOps) is an approach to IT operations that uses machine learning and other forms of artificial intelligence to automate and optimize various IT processes. It can help improve the efficiency, agility, and reliability of IT operations by reducing the time...

In this episode, Emily and Dave chat with Keyur Diwan Sr. Product Manager, Amazon RDS. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) is a collection of managed services that makes it simple to set up, operate, and scale databases in the cloud. Amazon RDS recently launched fully managed Blue/Green Deployments to help you with safer, simpler, and faster updates to your Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS...

In this episode, Brooke and Dave chat with Abdallah Shaban, Sr. Product Manager, Tech, for Amplify JS and Flutter. AWS Amplify is a complete solution that lets frontend web and mobile developers easily build, ship, and host full-stack applications on AWS, with no cloud expertise needed. Abdallah brings us up to speed on what the team has been building for developers and walks us through the new Am...

In this episode, Dave is joined by co-host Brooke Jaimeson, and Nik Pinski, Principal Engineer, AWS on the Amazon EventBridge team. Amazon EventBridge Pipes helps you create point-to-point integrations between event producers and consumers with optional transform, filter and enrich steps, while helping to reduces the amount of integration code you need to write and maintain. Nik walks us through t...

In this episode, Dave is joined by special co-host Linda Haviv, and Vin Yu, Sr. Product Manager – Tech at Amazon Web Services. Amazon DocumentDB is a MongoDB compatible, fully managed native JSON document database, that makes it easy and cost effective to operate critical document workloads at virtually any scale. Vin shares his journey to the cloud, gives insights on the Product Manager -Tech rol...

In this episode, Dave is joined by special co-host Brooke Jaimeson, and Justin Callison, General Manager AWS Step Functions. AWS Step Functions is a visual workflow service that helps developers use AWS services to build distributed applications, automate processes, orchestrate microservices, and create data and machine learning pipelines. Justin walks us through what is new in Step Functions, the...

In this episode, Emily and Dave chat with Prasad Pandit, Principal Product Manager, RDS Open Source. Prasad walks us through some of the recent performance innovations in Amazon’s Relational Database Service (RDS) as well as how MySQL writes data today. He then discusses the re:Invent 2022 launch of RDS Optimized Writes, which can help improve write throughput by up to 2x at no additional cost. RD...

In this episode, Dave chats with Vaibhav Khandelwal, Sr. Technical Product Manager for AWS DMS. The AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) helps customers securely migrate their databases to AWS with minimal downtime. Since 2016, AWS DMS has migrated more than 800,000 databases and currently supports over 20+ database and analytics engines. Vaibhav’s team recently launched the AWS DMS Schema Convers...