Real World Serverless with theburningmonk

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 and help support this channel.James Eastham is a developer advocate at Datadog and co-author of "Crafting Lambda Functions in Rust". In this episode, we dive into writing Lambda functions in Rust and why you should invest in learning Rust.Links from the episode:NSA whitepaper on memory safetyJulian Wood’s Lambda internals talk at re:Invent 2022Jame's YouTube channelCrafting Lambda Functions in RustEp106 on middy with Luciano MamminoEp97 on LLRT (the superfast JavaScript runtime for Lambda)Opening theme song:Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-mondayLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.

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.co/theburningmonk for more information.I spoke with Andrew Brown, renowned educator in the cloud space, to get his take on how cloud learners can break into the cloud and forge a successful career.Links from the episode:Andrew's paid coursesAndrew's free coursesAndrew's AWS examplesOpening theme song:Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-mondayLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

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 and help support this channel.AWS Serverless Hero Luciano Mammino shares the history of Middy, the popular middleware engine for AWS Lambda functions; why he's sold on writing Lambda functions in Rust and why you should too!Links from the episode:AWS Bites channelMiddyHow to sponsor MiddyCrafting Lambda Functions in RustEasy mode RustUsing Node.js ES modules and top-level await in AWS LambdaUsing Middy with TypescriptEp97 on LLRT (the superfast JavaScript runtime for Lambda)Opening theme song:Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-mondayLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

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.co/theburningmonk for more information.David Behroozi, a 15-year Amazon veteran, tells us the inception story of Amazon Cognito and the cheat code for succeeding at AWS.He also gave us a demo of Speedrun, his latest project since leaving Amazon. It turns your GitHub markdown into executable blocks of code that remember your context (e.g. AWS account and region) so your runbook can be executed right from the markdown.I recommend watching the episode on YouTube so you can see the full demo: https://youtu.be/nhWYlzb8mSALinks from the episode:David's LinkedIn profileDavid's Twitter profileLearn more about SpeedrunDavid's blogHow to Securely let Frontend Apps to Directly Access AWS servicesOpening theme song:Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-mondayLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0