Real World Serverless with theburningmonk
Nov 10, 2020
#37: Programming Lambda in Java with Mike Roberts
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You can find Mike on Twitter as @mikebroberts on LinkedIn here.
Here are links to what we discussed in the show:
- Mike's new book, Programming Lambda in Java
- Jeremy Daly's podcast with Mike on ServerlessChats
- Mike's YouTube channel
- Mike's blog
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Opening theme song:
Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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May 16, 2023
#78: Out with legacy lock-in with Eduard Bargues
In this episode, I spoke with Eduard Bargues, who is a Principal Engineer at Ohpen, a cloud-native open banking platform.
We talked about Ohpen's migration from EC2 to a mix of Fargate and Lambda, and along the way, we touched on many topics:
* migration patterns
* the "serverless-first" mindset
* how to choose when to use Lambda vs Fargate
* why monolith functions are painful and should be avoided
* recommendations and pitfalls
* why you should build a DX team
We also talked about how being cloud-agnostic makes you use the cloud in a way that is inefficient and creates many layers of unnecessary abstraction layers in your architecture, which Eduard calls "legacy lock-in"!
We talked about their event-driven architecture and how they are using an in-house Event Broker to add FIFO support (which EventBridge doesn't support) for some subscribers. It's similar to what Luc van Donkersgoed talked about in episode 68. We talked about their EventBridge topology and how they manage over 200 AWS accounts, and finally, what are the biggest shortcomings with EventBridge right now.
Links from the episode:
* Job openings at Ohpen
* Episode 68 with PostNL
* Episode 73 with NN
* Luc van Donkersgoed's Twitter and LinkedIn
* The decoupled invocation pattern
For more stories about real-world use of serverless technologies, please follow me on Twitter as *@theburningmonk* and subscribe to this podcast.
Want to step up your AWS game and learn how to build production-ready serverless applications? Check out my *upcoming workshops** *and I will teach you everything I know.
Opening theme song:
Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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May 2, 2023
#77: Microfrontends with Luca Mezzalira
In this episode, I spoke with Luca Mezzalira, who is the author of "Building Micro-Frontends" by O'Reilly, and a Principal Specialist Solutions Architect at AWS focusing on serverless.
We talked about micro-frontends and dived deep into his experience with them at both DAZN and AWS. We got a high-level overview of micro-frontends: what it is, how they work, and who should adopt micro-frontends. And why it worked out so well at DAZN, which had the challenge of supporting more than a dozen of devices including set-top boxes with custom versions of HTML!
We were also able to dive deep into some technical topics, such as how to manage the shared user state (e.g. credentials and session); how to build micro-frontends from a CI/CD pipeline POV; and how to maintain a consistent styling and layout across all your micro-frontend pages.
Links from the episode:
* The frontend-discovery-service open-source project in AWS Labs
* Luca's Microfrontends book
For more stories about real-world use of serverless technologies, please follow me on Twitter as *@theburningmonk* and subscribe to this podcast.
Want to step up your AWS game and learn how to build production-ready serverless applications? Check out my *upcoming workshops** *and I will teach you everything I know.
Opening theme song:
Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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Apr 18, 2023
#76: Optimizing AWS cost with Erik Peterson
In this episode, I spoke with Eric Peterson who is the founder and CTO of CloudZero, a leading vendor that helps AWS customers reign in their AWS spending by revealing hidden savings and preventing costly mistakes.
We discussed a range of topics, including common mistakes AWS users make and how CloudZero once saved a customer potentially a million-dollar on CDN bills by alerting them of spending abnormalities early.
We also talked about the trade-off between having cloud cost controls and the cost overhead they add. We talked about FinOps and how CloudZero can understand the unit cost of their own systems and how much each customer costs them because of the pay-per-use pricing model of serverless technologies.
And we discussed the wider economic trends in 2023 and how that might impact companies going forward and how it might change their views on serverless and the cloud more broadly.
Links from the episode:
* Erik's Twitter, Linkedin and personal blog
* Building a fully serverless insurance company with Joe Emison
For more stories about real-world use of serverless technologies, please follow me on Twitter as *@theburningmonk* and subscribe to this podcast.
Want to step up your AWS game and learn how to build production-ready serverless applications? Check out my *upcoming workshops** *and I will teach you everything I know.
Opening theme song:
Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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