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A podcast where we talk about real-world use of Serverless technologies from engineers who work with them day-to-day. We will discuss use cases, why they chose serverless and the pain points and challenges they face. If you want to know what it's REALLY like to work with serverless, this is the show for you.

Real World Serverless with theburningmonk Yan Cui

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A podcast where we talk about real-world use of Serverless technologies from engineers who work with them day-to-day. We will discuss use cases, why they chose serverless and the pain points and challenges they face. If you want to know what it's REALLY like to work with serverless, this is the show for you.

    #91: DevOps Reimagined with Patrick deBois on the Future of AI and DevOps

    #91: DevOps Reimagined with Patrick deBois on the Future of AI and DevOps

    • 51 min
    #90: He built a hotel booking system that costs $0.82/month to run

    #90: He built a hotel booking system that costs $0.82/month to run

    In this episode, I spoke with Hieu Do, who is a Solution Architect at FPT Software in Vietnam. As a side project, he built a hotel booking system for a friend using entirely serverless technologies.

    He shared his experience and learnings from building this system and how he was able to keep the cost down. After running the system for a year, the system only costs an average of $0.82 per month and serves over 3000 users per day.

    There are some useful tips that everyone can apply. Such as reducing the cost of API Gateway by cutting out the OPTION requests associated with CORS. Or looking out for CloudWatch costs when using 3rd party services that poll CloudWatch data, such as NewRelic.

    Links from the episode:
    Hieu's article on running a serverless hotel booking system for a yearPuppeteerChrome Lambda LayerVendia serverless-express frameworkHieu's Linkedin profile-----

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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

    • 48 min
    #89: Hashnode's serverless architecture with Sandro Volpicella

    #89: Hashnode's serverless architecture with Sandro Volpicella

    In this episode, I spoke with Sandro Volpicella, who is a platform lead at Hashnode, a fully serverless blogging platform. He is also the co-author of AWS Fundamentals (https://awsfundamentals.com).

    We explored Hashnode's architecture and went deep into its caching strategy, which is a crucial ingredient of a scalable and performant blogging platform.

    Links from the episode:
    Hashnode's overall architectureAWS FundamentalsCloudWatch BookStellateUpstashHow Hashnode implements the user feedOctoLenseServerlessQChoosing a database for serverless applications You can find Sandro on X as @sandro_vol

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    And if you're hungry for more insights, best practices, and invaluable tips on building serverless apps, make sure to subscribe to our free newsletter and elevate your serverless game! https://theburningmonk.com/subscribe

    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

    • 1 hr
    #88: Optimizing Lambda cold starts with AJ Stuyvenberg

    #88: Optimizing Lambda cold starts with AJ Stuyvenberg

    In this episode, I spoke with AJ Stuyvenberg, who is an AWS Hero and staff engineer at Datadog. We discussed the findings from the latest state of serverless report and spoke about Lambda cold starts at length. AJ has done some incredible research into Lambda cold starts and shared the 4 biggest mistakes people make regarding Lambda cold starts.

    If you care about getting the best performance for your Lambda functions and minimizing cold starts, then this is the episode for you!

    Links from the episode:
    State of Serverless reportCorey Quinn's 17 ways to run containers on AWSCorey Quinn's 17 more ways to run containersAJ’s Linkedin profileAJ's re:invent session (COM305)AJ's Twitch streamAJ's post on Lambda proactive initialisationMichael Hart’s post on Lambda using full CPU during init You can find AJ on X as @astuyve

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    For more stories about real-world use of serverless technologies, please subscribe to the channel and follow me on X as @theburningmonk.

    And if you're hungry for more insights, best practices, and invaluable tips on building serverless apps, make sure to subscribe to our free newsletter and elevate your serverless game! https://theburningmonk.com/subscribe

    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

    • 53 min
    #87: Anton Babenko on Serverless.TF and the Terraform licensing fiasco

    #87: Anton Babenko on Serverless.TF and the Terraform licensing fiasco

    In this episode, I spoke with Anton Babenko, who is an AWS Community Hero and creator of the Serverless.TF framework. We spoke at length about serverless development with Terraform and the problems that Serverless.TF aims to solve. We also discussed the recent seismic split in the Terraform community, with HashiCorp's license change and the initiation of the OpenTofu movement. Anton didn't hold back on his feelings about the oversized reaction to HashiCorp's announcement, and I agree with him!

    Links from the episode:

    * Serverless.TF framework
    * Serverless.TF example for Lambda
    * Anton's various other projects
    * Hire Anton for consulting engagements
    * HashiCorp's license change announcement
    * OpenTofu

    You can find Anton on X as @antonbabenko

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    For more stories about real-world use of serverless technologies, please subscribe to the channel and follow me on X as @theburningmonk.

    And if you're hungry for more insights, best practices, and invaluable tips on building serverless apps, make sure to subscribe to our free newsletter and elevate your serverless game! https://theburningmonk.com/subscribe

    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

    • 39 min
    #86: Enterprise CDK with Ran Isenberg

    #86: Enterprise CDK with Ran Isenberg

    In this episode, I spoke with Ran Isenberg, who is an AWS Serverless Hero and Principal Software Architect at CyberArk. Amongst other things, we talked about platform engineering at CyberArk, how they adopted CDK and how they approach testing and tenant isolations.

    Links from the episode:

    * Ran's blog
    * Open positions at CyberArk
    * cdk-nag
    * Ran's AWS Lambda cookbook
    * See Ran speak at re:Invent, session OPN305
    * My approach towards serverless testing
    * My course on serverless testing
    * Episode 85 with Matt Bonig about CDK dos & don'ts

    You can find Ran on X as @IsenbergRan

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    For more stories about real-world use of serverless technologies, please subscribe to the channel and follow me on X as @theburningmonk.

    And if you're hungry for more insights, best practices, and invaluable tips on building serverless apps, make sure to subscribe to our free newsletter and elevate your serverless game! https://theburningmonk.com/subscribe

    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

    • 43 min

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