Real World Serverless with theburningmonk
Episodes
115 episodes
#116: AI Agents, MCP and the problems with AI benchmarks | ft. Matt Carey
In this episode, I spoke with Matt Carey, founding AI engineer at StackOne, founder of AI Demo Days and member of the OpenUK AI Advisory Board.Everyone needs a friend who works in AI to help them filter the AI news and get the signals fr...
#115: Introducing LocalStack v4!
In this episode, I spoke with Waldemar Hummer, founder and CTO of LocalStack. We discussed what's new in the latest version of LocalStack and highlighted some of the most interesting additions.One particular highlight for me is the abil...
#114: Best practices for building a multi-tenant system with Khawaja Shams
In this episode, I spoke with Khawaja Shams, co-founder of Momento, about cell-based architectures and how it allows Momento to scale to millions of transactions per second (TPS) while maintaining a healthy blast radius within their multi-tenan...
#113: Why you need Knowledge Graphs for your AI chatbot | ft. Aniket Mitra
In this episode, I spoke with Aniket Mitra, founder of CW, to learn more about knowledge graphs and how they are making a comeback in the era of AI and LLMs.Opening theme song:Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompet...
#112: Better Developer Experience for Event-Driven Architectures | ft. Alex Bouchard, co-founder of Hookdeck
In this episode, I spoke with Alex Bouchard, co-founder and CTO of Hookdeck, to learn more about Hookdeck and how it differs from Amazon EventBridge.This episode contains a live demo of Hookdeck, for the best viewing experience, please ...
#111 - EventCatalog Revolutionizes Governance in Event-Driven Architectures | ft. David Boyne
In this episode, I spoke with David Boyne, the creator of EventCatalog, to learn more about the most common challenges with Event-Driven Architectures and how EventCatalog can solve the governance problem - how events are versioned, schema'd, d...
#109: Building serverless apps in PHP with Bref | ft Matthieu Napoli
Thank you to Momento for supporting this episode. Momento's real-time data platform empowers developers to build innovative products faster and more reliably than ever before. Visit gomomento...
#108: Lambda on Rust with James Eastham
Thank you to Hookdeck for sponsoring this episode. If you're looking to level-up your event-driven architecture, then check out their serverless event gateway at hookdeck.com/theburningmonk
#107: How to Have a Successful Cloud Career in 2024 | ft. Andrew Brown
Thank you to Momento for supporting this episode. Momento's real-time data platform empowers developers to build innovative products faster and more reliably than ever before. Visit gomomento...
#106: Rust with Lambda, easy-mode Rust & future of Middy | ft. Luciano Mammino
Thank you to Hookdeck for sponsoring this episode. If you're looking to level-up your event-driven architecture, then check out their serverless event gateway at hookdeck.com/theburningmonk
#105: The inception story of Cognito & secret to succeeding at AWS | ft. David Behroozi
Thank you to Momento for supporting this episode. Momento's real-time data platform empowers developers to build innovative products faster and more reliably than ever before. Visit gomomento...
#104: Baseline, is this new serverless development framework better than Amplify?
Thank you to Hookdeck for sponsoring this episode. If you're looking to level-up your event-driven architecture, then check out their serverless event gateway at hookdeck.com/theburningmonk
#103 - Community building, being an enable, is serverless dead? ft. Allen Helton
Thank you to Hookdeck for sponsoring this episode. Please check them out and help support this podcast.Allen Helton on being an enabler,...
#102: Building AWS communities with Farrah Campbell
Take a peek behind the AWS Heroes and Community Builders programmes with Farrah Campbell, who was a former AWS hero turned AWS employee. Nowadays, Farrah heads up both the AWS Heroes and Community Builders programmes.Links from the epis...
#101: Faster serverless APIs with Brian LeRoux
In this episode, I spoke with Brian LeRoux, co-founder of begin.com and creator of the Architect framework. Brian is also an AWS Serverless Hero and...
#100: LocalStack v3 is here and it's kinda amazing!
In this episode, I spoke with Waldemar Hummer, founder and CTO of LocalStack. We discussed what's new in the latest version of LocalStack and highlighted some of the most interesting additions.One particular highlight for me is the abil...
#99: Azure Functions deep dive with Ian Griffiths
In this episode, I spoke with Ian Griffiths, a Technical Fellow at Endjin, a Microsoft MVP, and the author of O'Reilly's Programming C# 10.0.In this episode, we took a deep dive into Azure Functions, how it works and how it differs (sig...
#98: How DAZN streams live sports to millions of concurrent viewers
In this episode, I spoke with Bob Hannent, the principal architect of DAZN's video playback and delivery system. This system is responsible for streaming live sporting events to millions of concurrent viewers.We discussed the many chall...
#97: 10x Lambda cold start performance with LLRT
In this episode, I spoke with Richard Davison, the creator of the new LLRT (Low Latency Runtime) for Lambda. We talked about the motivation for a specialised JavaScript runtime for Lambda, how it achieves the insane cold start time and the trad...
#96: How Fathom saved $100k/year in their AWS bill
In this episode, I spoke with Jack Ellis, who is a co-founder of Fathom. We into the cost optimizations that he used to save Fathom $100k/year on their AWS bill.
#95: How Dunelm went from on-prem to serverless while going faster
In this episode, I spoke with Mark White, who is a principal engineer at Dunelm, a leading home furnishing retailer in the UK.We talked about Dunelm's journey from on-premise infrastructure to serverless and how they stayed agile while ...
#94: Serverless Framework v4 with Austen Collins
In this episode, I spoke with Austen Collins, founder and CEO of Serverless Inc. about the upcoming release of Serverless Framework v4.We talked about the origin of the Serverless Framework and the challenges it faces. We discussed the ...
#93: Building serverless AI apps with Sam Williams
In this episode, I spoke with Sam Williams about his drive for work-life balance and discussed his experience of building AI-powered apps using serverless technologies.Links from the episode:
#92 - Rise of the AI Engineer with Shawn Wang
In this episode, I spoke with Shawn Wang, who coined the term "AI Engineer" as a new title for engineers who are building the chains and agents that powers AI applications. This is likely to be the highest-demand engineering job of the decade.<...
#91: DevOps Reimagined with Patrick deBois on the Future of AI and DevOps
In this episode, I spoke with Patrick deBois, who is known as the "father of DevOps" as he coined the term "DevOps" in 2009.In a wide-ranging conversation, we talked about the evolution of DevOps, what it means in 2023 and how it relate...
