The AWS Developers Podcast

In this episode, Emily and Dave catch up with Brice Pelle, Principal Product Manager for AWS Appsync. AppSync is a managed service that helps simplify data access, and the creation of scalable GraphQL APIs. Brice walks us through everything new in Appsync for developers post re:Invent 2022! This includes the ability to now write GraphQL APIs using JavaScript, the availability of two new libraries,...

In this episode, Dave is joined by special co-host Brooke Jaimeson, and Laura Hyatt, Global Solution Architect for AWS Resilience Hub. Laura shares her knowledge on building resilient architectures in the AWS cloud, defining good recovery time objectives (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO) for your organization, the difference between reliability and resiliency in modern apps, how to handle...

In this episode, Emily and Dave chat with Namrata Shah, Managing Director, PwC, about all things DevOps. Namrata has over two decades of consulting experience where she managed very large Developers teams. In this episode she shares her DevOps journey through the years, what developers look for in the real world around DevOps, what an ideal DevOps Tool would be that doesn’t exist today, and what t...

In this episode, Emily and Dave chat with John Dalton, Sr. Product Manager, Amazon RDS Open Source, and Jonathan Katz, Principal PMT, Amazon RDS Open Source, about the recent launch of Trusted Language Extensions PostgreSQL. Trusted Language Extensions for PostgreSQL is an open source development kit for building PostgreSQL extensions that allows developers to build high performance PostgreSQL ext...

In this episode, Dave and Emily chat with Srinivas Iragavarapu, Sr. SDM for Amazon CodeWhisperer. Designed to improve developer productivity, Amazon CodeWhisperer provides machine learning (ML)–powered code recommendations to accelerate development of C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, and TypeScript applications. The service integrates with multiple integrated development environments (IDEs), includin...

In this episode, Emily and Dave chat with Harry Mower, GM for AWS DevOps Tools, and Doug Clauson, Principal Product Manager Technical for AWS DevTools. Amazon CodeCatalyst is a unified software development and delivery service, that enables software development teams to quickly and easily plan, develop, collaborate on, build, and deliver applications on AWS, reducing friction throughout the develo...

In this episode, Emily and Dave chat with Tarun Rai Madan, Sr. Product Manager for AWS Lambda. AWS Lambda SnapStart for Java offers up to 10x faster function startup performance at no extra cost. Lambda SnapStart is a performance optimization that makes it easier for you to build highly responsive and scalable Java applications using AWS Lambda, without having to provision resources or spend time...

In this episode, Emily and Dave chat with Brian Tarbox, Principal Alexa Voice Designer at Epic Strategies. Brian has over thirty years’ experience in tech, has been awarded ten patents, written numerous papers, and co-leads the Boston AWS Meetup. He has been using Amazon CodeWhisperer in his current day to day job, shares how more productive it has enabled him to be, walks us through what he’s lea...

In this episode, Emily and Dave chat with Kristi Perreault, a Principal Software Engineer at Liberty Mutual, and an AWS Serverless Hero. Krisiti shares her journey to the cloud, thoughts on Serverless, building a sustainable application, the importance of well architected frameworks, and how she aids over 4,000 Liberty Mutual engineers to be more successful in their jobs. The trio also discusses t...

In this episode, Dave chats again with Lee Robinson, VP of Developer Experience at Vercel. Lee dives into all of the announcements around Next.js from last week’s conference. This includes Next.js version 13, Turbopack, a Rust based successor to Webpack, routing, server components, a server-first approach, and new real-time analytics. If you missed it, you can listen to part one of this conversati...

In this episode, Dave chats with Lee Robinson, VP of Developer Experience at Vercel. The pair discuss Lee’s career as a developer, an overview of what the React framework is, and an introduction to Next.js for developers. Lee then discusses some of the challenges in modern web development, what trends frontend developers should be paying attention to currently, and his thoughts on the future of Re...

In this episode, Dave and Emily continue their chat with Chris Williams, an AWS Community Hero, and Cloud Therapist at World Wide Technology. The trio discusses the current state of DevOps in 2022, the impacts of the pandemic, how DevOps is evolving, people vs. technology in moving DevOps forward, and tips for developers helping to better than own work culture. If you missed it, you can listen to...

In this episode, Emily and Dave chat with Chris Williams, an AWS Community Hero, and Cloud Therapist at World Wide Technology. Chris walks us through his multi-decade career, from the start of computer virtualization, to breaking into Cloud Computing, and the history of Boston area developer communities. The trio share what changes they have seen the pandemic bring to communities, why they feel it...

In this episode, Dave continues his chat with Danilo Poccia, Chief Evangelist, EMEA at Amazon Web Services. Amazon Web Services is focused on powering all operations with 100% renewable energy by 2025 and committed to achieving Amazon's goal of net-zero carbon by 2040. In this second part, Danilo shares specific guidance for developers around using storage and compute services, instance types, dat...

In this episode, Dave chats with Danilo Poccia, Chief Evangelist, EMEA at Amazon Web Services. Danilo shares his journey from online trainer, solutions architect, to the Chief Evangelist at AWS for EMEA. Amazon Web Services is focused on powering all operations with 100% renewable energy by 2025 and committed to achieving Amazon's goal of net-zero carbon by 2040. Danilo shares what this initiative...

In part two, Dave and Emily continue their conversation with Ali Spittel, head of developer advocacy for AWS Amplify at Amazon. Ali covers the general availability release of Amplify Studio, the history behind the service, and how it can help designer and developers work better together. She also discusses the role of developer advocacy, social media, and the trio shares some of the history behind...

In this episode Emily and Dave catch up with Ali Spittel, head of developer advocacy for AWS Amplify at Amazon. Ali covers the general availability release of Amplify Studio, the history behind the service, and how it is helping designer and developers work better together. She also covers how the Amplify team works directly with the community to shape the product, and announces the AWS Amplify Ha...

In this episode, Dave and Emily chat with Linda Haviv, a Developer Advocate at Amazon Web Services. Linda has a large social media following on both TikTok and Instagram, where she covers numerous AWS and cloud concepts, offers advice to people looking to start a cloud career, and highlights many other members of the developer community. Linda shares her journey from being a full-time journalist,...

In this episode, Dave and Emily chat with Troy Ameigh, Sr. Partner Solutions Architect, and Dave May, Partner Solutions Architect who both work on the Integration and Automation Team at AWS (I&A). The AWS I&A team is responsible for building Quik Starts, which are automated reference deployments using AWS Services. These Quick Starts help customers deploy popular technologies on AWS according to A...

In this episode, Emily and Dave chat with Cobus Bernard, Sr Developer Advocate, Technical Experience at AWS. Cobus talks about his experience moving from Africa to the United States, the tech scene in Africa, and what it was like working in developer relations with such a diverse geography. Cobus then dives into an introduction to using Terraform on AWS, understanding HCL and modules, and shares s...

In part two, Dave chats again with Francesco Pochetti, Senior Machine Language Engineer at Bolt, and an AWS Machine Learning Hero. In this episode, Francesco dives deep in the ML tools on AWS, starting with the tools such as NVIDIA Triton and TensorRT, and how to improve processing time for Computer Vision. He also covers Amazon SageMaker, and many other AWS ML services as well as deploying ML mod...

In this episode, Dave chats with Francesco Pochetti, Senior Machine Language Engineer at Bolt, and an AWS Machine Learning Hero. Francesco covers his career start as a chemist, his journey into a career of Data Science, and how Computer Vision technology is handling some of the most difficult Machine Learning problems today. Francesco on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Fra_Pochetti Dave on Twitter: h...

In part two, Dave and Emily continue their chat with Matty Stratton. If you missed it, please listen to part one of this conversation in Episode 043. Matt is a Staff Developer Advocate at Pulumi, founder and co-host of the popular Arrested DevOps podcast, and the global chair of the DevOpsDays set of conferences. He is a well-known international speaker and brings over 20 years of IT Operations ex...

In this episode, Dave and Emily chat with Matty Stratton. Matt is a Staff Developer Advocate at Pulumi, founder and co-host of the popular Arrested DevOps podcast, and the global chair of the DevOpsDays set of conferences. He is a well-known international speaker and brings over 20 years of IT Operations experience. Matt walks through his journey to the cloud, the early days of DevOps, the creatio...

In this episode, Dave and Emily chat with Lynn Langit, a Cloud Architect, Teacher, and AWS Data Hero. Lynn walks through her journey to the cloud, understanding the need for different types of data, gives an excellent overview of the different AWS Data Services, and how you can get started choosing the right one for your needs. Lynn on Twitter: https://twitter.com/lynnlangit Emily on Twitter: http...