The AWS Developers Podcast

In this episode, Dave chats with Marcia Villalba, Developer Advocate at Amazon Web Services. Marcia is the creator of the popular FooBar Serverless YouTube channel, whose unique approach to content blends a love of learning with technical deep dives. Marcia discusses her approach to staying up to date with the latest developer technologies, and her career journey to becoming a Developer Advocate....

In this episode, Emily and Dave chat with Clare Liguori, Principal Software Engineer at Amazon. Clare discusses Amazon’s culture of DevOps, everything from how it implements CI/CD, root cause analysis reviews, to the life of a code commit, after a software engineer is ready to deploy. Clare on Twitter: https://twitter.com/clare_liguori Clare’s Bio: https://www.clareliguori.com/ Clare’s Git: https:...

In the second episode of this two-part conversation, Dave and Emily chat with Paul Cutsinger, Head of Developer Strategy at Amazon. Paul discusses how AWS has been a foundation for developers building on Alexa, and what the future of the voice spaces holds for daily interaction with the technology in our lives. Paul on Twitter: https://twitter.com/PaulCutsinger Paul on LinkedIn: https://www.linked...

In this episode Dave and Emily chat with Paul Cutsinger, Head of Developer Strategy at Alexa. Paul joined the Alexa team in the very early years, lead the worldwide developer education team, and helped mold the vision for the developer roadmap. In his current role, Paul leads an incubation team working on new ways for customers to interact with Alexa and Voice. Paul discusses how AWS has been a fo...

In this episode Dave and Emily chat with Jeff Barr, VP of Evangelism at AWS. Jeff has been with Amazon since 2002 and was the first person in a full-time developer advocate role. In this follow-up conversation from last week’s episode, Jeff covers the culture of innovation behind AWS, tips for managing time, and how to have productive interactions with other developer teams. Jeff on Twitter: https...

In this episode Dave and Emily chat with Jeff Barr, VP of Evangelism at Amazon Web Services. Jeff has been with Amazon since 2002, and was the first person in a full-time developer advocate role. Jeff covers what the early AWS developer community looked like, early developer relations at AWS, the importance of community, and how developers have shaped the roadmap for many AWS services over time. I...

In this episode Dave and Emily chat with Ross Barich, Principal Developer Community Manager at Amazon Web Services, and owner of the AWS Heroes program. The AWS Heroes program, and its associated program Community Builders, are part of Amazon’s AWS Developers Community recognition programs. These programs recognize members from across the globe, developers helping the community grow, mentoring oth...

In this episode Emily and Dave continue the conversation with Memo Doring, Head of Developer Relations for Latin America (LATAM) at Amazon Web Services. The Latin America region is home to over 600 million, covering a diverse geography, people, and languages. In part two of this two-part conversation, Memo talks about his experience helping LATAM companies move to the cloud, the effects of the glo...

In this episode Emily and Dave chat with Memo Doring, Head of Developer Relations for Latin America (LATAM) at Amazon Web Services. The Latin America region is home to over 600 million, covering a diverse geography, people and languages. In part one of this two-part conversation, Memo talks about his experience starting a new developer relations team in Latin America, being a Latino in tech, and t...

In this episode Emily and Dave chat with Luc van Donkersgoed, Lead Solution Software Engineer at the Dutch Postal Service, and a DevTools AWS Community Builder. Luc covers his journey of acquiring all 12 AWS certifications, his real-world approach to exam taking, and ideas on prototyping with the cloud. Luc on Twitter: https://twitter.com/donkersgood Luc’s AWS Solution Architect Professional Cours...

In this episode Emily and Dave chat with Richard H. Boyd, Sr. Developer Advocate at Amazon Web Services for Developer Tools. Richard covers his software engineering journey, CI/CD processes at Amazon, and shares tips for creating productive cloud developer environments. ---------- Richard on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rchrdbyd Richard's Dev Blog: https://rboyd.dev/ Richard's Github: https://gith...

In this episode Dave chats again with Elad Ben-Israel, Principal Engineer at Amazon Web Services for the Cloud Development Kit (CDK). In part two of this two-part conversation, Elad talks about the current state of the CDK, the CDK community, Projen project, and the future of CDK. --- Elad on Twitter: twitter.com/emeshbi Elad’s GitHub.io: http://eladb.github.io/ --- AWS CDK Git: bit.ly/3yB3kWS CDK...

In this episode Dave chats with Elad Ben-Israel, Principal Engineer at Amazon Web Services for the Cloud Development Kit (CDK). In part one of this two-part conversation, Elad talks about his time as a software engineer at Amazon, the creation of the Cloud Development Kit, and the philosophy behind JSII, a new framework that allows code in any language to naturally interact with JavaScript classes...

In this episode Emily and Dave talk to Ali Spittel, who leads developer advocacy for AWS Amplify at Amazon. Ali has a passion for teaching others how to code, and helping them to become full-time developers. In her role at AWS, she works with mobile and web app creators on new tools that remove friction, and speed up development time. Ali on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ASpittel Ladybug Podcast: h...

In this episode Dave and Emily talk to David Nalley, a Principal Advocate at AWS for Open Source, and President of the Apache Software Foundation. David has been involved in open-source projects for decades, and humbly shares the lessons he has learned. David Nalley on Twitter: twitter.com/ke4qqq Apache Software Foundation on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheASF Innovating with Rust: https://aws.am...

In this episode Dave and Emily talk to Ken Collins, a Principal Engineer at Custom Ink, focused on DevOps and Ecommerce. Ken has done some interesting things with AWS Lambda and the Rails programming language when it comes to DevOps. Ken is also an AWS Serverless Hero and has created a blog series around real-world usage for Rails and Lambda. Ken's Info: Ken on Twitter: https://twitter.com/metaski...