Talking Serverless

In this episode of "Talking Serverless," we engage with Naor Paz, the Director of Product at Firefly, to dive deep into the intricacies of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and its impact on serverless workflows. We'll clear up common misconceptions, debunk myths, and explore lesser-known aspects of managing cloud infrastructure in a serverless environment. In this episode: -Explore Naor’s journey from cybersecurity research to Director of Product - Discover what inspired Firefly's mission to eliminate "click ops" in cloud management-Address common misconceptions about IaC - Real-world applications and case studies highlighting successfully transformed cloud operations -And much more! About Naor: Naor Paz is a Director of Product at Firefly. With a decade of experience in Security, Data, and Networks, Naor builds the Cloud Asset Management Platform to take DevOps and SRE teams to the next level. Before Firefly, Naor was a Senior Product Manager at F5, leading their Web Application

Discover the pulse of serverless innovation with the incredibly charismatic Matt Butcher, co-founder of Fermyon Technologies! Delve into Matt’s journey through the open source ecosystem, where he has left indelible marks with projects like Helm and Krustlet, revolutionizing Kubernetes and cloud-native landscapes. Uncover the challenges and triumphs of maintaining open source projects, and explore Fermyon’s pioneering use of WebAssembly (Wasm) with Spin—a game-changer for serverless computing, enhancing performance, security, and portability. Join us as Matt shares his vision for the future of open source and invites listeners to embark on their own serverless journey. Whether you’re a seasoned developer or a curious enthusiast, this episode promises insights, inspiration, and a call to action that can shape the future of serverless technologies! More about Matt: Matt Butcher is co-founder and CEO of Fermyon, the serverless WebAssembly in the cloud company. He is one of the original creators of Helm, Briga

Discover the pulse of serverless innovation with the incredibly charismatic Matt Butcher, co-founder of ⁠Fermyon Technologies⁠! Delve into Matt’s journey through the open source ecosystem, where he has left indelible marks with projects like Helm and Krustlet, revolutionizing Kubernetes and cloud-native landscapes. Uncover the challenges and triumphs of maintaining open source projects, and explore Fermyon’s pioneering use of WebAssembly (Wasm) with Spin—a game-changer for serverless computing, enhancing performance, security, and portability. Join us as Matt shares his vision for the future of open source and invites listeners to embark on their own serverless journey. Whether you’re a seasoned developer or a curious enthusiast, this episode promises insights, inspiration, and a call to action that can shape the future of serverless technologies! More about Matt: Matt Butcher is co-founder and CEO of Fermyon, the serverless WebAssembly in the cloud company. He is one of the original creators of Helm, Bri

The past and the future collide as we hear the Father of Serverless’ thoughts on its inception, its impact, and ultimately its future! Dr. Tim Wagner has been called the "Father of Serverless" for his role in creating AWS Lambda, the world's first serverless compute service during his time at AWS, and for his passionate championing of the serverless community and ecosystem. Dr. Wagner also served as the VP of Engineering at Coinbase, where he got a front row seat to the world of regulated commercial blockchains. With his current startup, Vendia, Tim and his co-founder, Shruthi Rao, have brought these two formerly separate ideas together to create the world's first cloud-based, hyperscaled, serverless distributed ledger for business data. Throughout his career, Dr. Wagner has focused on empowering developers and companies alike by focusing on the elimination of toil from the experience of developing business applications. In this Episode: • Tim's perspective on the current state of se

The past and the future collide as we hear the Father of Serverless’ thoughts on its inception, its impact, and ultimately its future! Dr. Tim Wagner has been called the "Father of Serverless" for his role in creating AWS Lambda, the world's first serverless compute service during his time at AWS, and for his passionate championing of the serverless community and ecosystem. Dr. Wagner also served as the VP of Engineering at Coinbase, where he got a front row seat to the world of regulated commercial blockchains. With his current startup, Vendia, Tim and his co-founder, Shruthi Rao, have brought these two formerly separate ideas together to create the world's first cloud-based, hyperscaled, serverless distributed ledger for business data. Throughout his career, Dr. Wagner has focused on empowering developers and companies alike by focusing on the elimination of toil from the experience of developing business applications. In this Episode: • Tim's perspective on the current state of se

Delve into the world of advanced tools in the serverless ecosystem with our special guest, Simon Mac Donald from Begin! Simon has over twenty years of development experience and has worked on a variety of projects, including object-oriented databases, police communication systems, speech recognition, and unified messaging. His current focus is contributing to the open-source projects Architect and Enhance to enable developers to create functional web applications. Simon’s been building web applications since they were written using shell scripts-- he still has nightmares about those dark days. In this episode we: -Decode Functional Web Apps (FWAs) and their significance in today's development landscape. -Explore the aws-lite SDK, Begin's lightweight alternative to traditional AWS SDKs, revolutionizing interactions with AWS. -Uncover the Enhance framework, a full-stack approach to web development, designed to streamline the process in a serverless environment. -Shift our focus to Architect, Begin

Delve into the world of advanced tools in the serverless ecosystem with our special guest, Simon Mac Donald from Begin! Simon has over twenty years of development experience and has worked on a variety of projects, including object-oriented databases, police communication systems, speech recognition, and unified messaging. His current focus is contributing to the open-source projects Architect and Enhance to enable developers to create functional web applications. Simon’s been building web applications since they were written using shell scripts-- he still has nightmares about those dark days. In this episode we: -Decode Functional Web Apps (FWAs) and their significance in today's development landscape. -Explore the aws-lite SDK, Begin's lightweight alternative to traditional AWS SDKs, revolutionizing interactions with AWS. -Uncover the Enhance framework, a full-stack approach to web development, designed to streamline the process in a serverless environment. -Shift our focus to Architect, Begin

Explore the fusion of serverless tech & generative AI with Richard Boyd. Uncover integration strategies with tools and projects that illustrate the impact of this work and insights into what the future holds for this technological synergy. Tune in as we Talk Serverless! Richard Boyd is a Software Engineer with a passion for building cloud-native applications that are easy to maintain and even easier to use. This episode features: -The blend of serverless architectures and generative AI -Richard's innovative approaches to overcoming integration challenges and showcasing successes blending serverless and generative AI -Balanced perspective on the pros and cons of this cutting-edge integration Meet Richard: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-h-boyd/Meet Paul: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulchinjr/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/talking-serverless/message

Explore the fusion of serverless tech & generative AI with the incredible Richard Boyd. Uncover integration strategies with tools and projects that illustrate the impact of this work and insights into what the future holds for this technological synergy. Tune in as we Talk Serverless! Richard Boyd is a Software Engineer with a passion for building cloud-native applications that are easy to maintain and even easier to use. This episode features: -The blend of serverless architectures and generative AI -Richard's innovative approaches to overcoming integration challenges and showcasing successes blending serverless and generative AI -Balanced perspective on the pros and cons of this cutting-edge integration Meet Richard: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-h-boyd/Meet Paul: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulchinjr/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/talking-serverless/message

In the inaugural episode of the Talking Serverless Podcast with new host Paul Chin Jr., we delve into the captivating journey of Danielle Heberling, an AWS Serverless Hero and software engineer extraordinaire. Danielle's background includes being a musician and teaching at a K-8 public school. She got her start in the Serverless world through her work at Stackery. Stackery was acquired by AWS and was relaunched as AWS Application Composer. In 2023 she was named an AWS Serverless Hero. Overall she’s passionate about building things that make the world a better place, whether that be through social change or a good laugh. When she’s not coding, you can often find her reaching back to her teaching roots by mentoring folks from underrepresented groups who would like to make a career switch into tech. This episode features: -Danielle’s multifaceted background and pivotal role in serverless cloud engineering. -The evolving landscape of front-end and back-end architectures to the burgeoning opportunities and c

Ryan Jones is joined by Vadym Kazulkin! Vadym Kazulkin is Head of Development at ip.labs GmbH, a 100% subsidiary of the FUJIFILM Group, based in Bonn, Germany. ip.labs is the world's leading white-label e-commerce software imaging company. Vadym has been involved with the Java ecosystem for over twenty years. His focus and interests currently include the design and implementation of highly scalable and available applications, Serverless and AWS Cloud. Vadym is the co-organizer of the Java User Group Bonn meetup and AWS Community Builder in the Serverless category and a frequent speaker at various Meetups and conferences. More about Vadym: Twitter: https://twitter.com/VKazulkin  GitHub: https://github.com/Vadym79/  Last article of his series about AWS SnapStart: https://dev.to/aws-builders/measuring-java-11-lambda-cold-starts-with-snapstart-part-6-priming-the-request-invocation-30od --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/talking-serverless/message

Ryan Jones is joined by Vadym Kazulkin!  Vadym Kazulkin is Head of Development at ip.labs GmbH, a 100% subsidiary of the FUJIFILM Group, based in Bonn, Germany. ip.labs is the world's leading white-label e-commerce software imaging company.  Vadym has been involved with the Java ecosystem for over twenty years. His focus and interests currently include the design and implementation of highly scalable and available applications, Serverless and AWS Cloud. Vadym is the co-organizer of the Java User Group Bonn meetup and AWS Community Builder in the Serverless category and a frequent speaker at various Meetups and conferences. More about Vadym:   Twitter: https://twitter.com/VKazulkin  GitHub: https://github.com/Vadym79/  Last article of his series about AWS SnapStart: https://dev.to/aws-builders/measuring-java-11-lambda-cold-starts-with-snapstart-part-6-priming-the-request-invocation-30od --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/talking-serverless/message

Joshua Proto is joined today by Sam Williams, a Serverless Obsessive and Teacher who runs @Complete Coding, which helps companies and developers learn and utilize Serverless.  He's honed his Serverless experience over five years on projects, including: - Designing a chat platform that resolves over 250,000 customer inquiries a month for international retailers and local government - Architecting a backend system to support a 3D clothing visualization tool - Building a solution to manage millions of dollars of communication software He has also taught serverless development to thousands of people for the last four years.  The Complete Coding Youtube channel now has over 12k subscribers and 1 million views! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/talking-serverless/message

Welcome to the Talking Serverless podcast, our host Ryan Jones is joined today by Matthieu Napoli, product manager for Serverless Framework and an AWS serverless hero! He open-sourced his first code in 2003, built his first website in 2007, and hasn’t been able to stop since. After years of setting up servers, learning Ansible, and finally Docker, Matthieu moved to serverless. He now creates serverless applications for clients as well as his own amazing projects. For example, he helps maintain Bref, a serverless PHP framework for AWS Lambda that has been installed more than 1 million times!   Besides coding, Matthieu is an avid blogger, Twitter user, and loves to discuss Serverless at conferences and meet-ups. You can follow the links to learn more about his open-source projects, serverless training course, blog, and much more!  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/talking-serverless/message

Ryan Jones is joined by NEWLY MINTED AWS Hero Kristi Perreault! Kristi is a Principal Software Engineer working on a serverless DevOps team at Liberty Mutual Insurance— enabling serverless for over 5000 developers across the company. On top of that, Kristi is very involved in the “Women in Tech” efforts at Liberty Mutual and the larger tech community through the non-profit “Women Who Code”.   Kristi has a Master's degree in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Boston University where she specialized in Cloud Computing, Robotics, and Data Analytics. You can learn more about her independent study project focusing on cyber-physical systems in her blog; which you can find here: https://kristiperreault.medium.com/serverless-robotics-vr-oh-my-9d0799f40d19 Follow Kristi on Twitter @kperreault95, and while you're at it, might as well follow us too @talkingsls to keep up with our latest news and episode releases. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/talking-serverless/message

They say seeing is believing, and in this case, it's literal. On this episode of the Talking Serverless podcast host, Ryan Jones is joined by the incredible Michael Liendo. Michael is a self-driven developer with a passion for knowledge; he is an AWS Community Builder, Frontend & Serverless instructor, consultant, and recently became a Senior Developer Advocate at AWS! In this episode hear Michael's wild story of how he got into tech, his experience as an AWS Community Builder, and much more. If you like this podcast and want, visit our website where it is all there and always free: talkingserverless.io   And if you want to follow this guest on social media you can find him here on Twitter @mtliendo and visit his Github: https://github.com/mtliendo --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/talking-serverless/message

2 On this episode of the Talking Serverless podcast host, Josh Proto is delighted to be joined by Mr. Anthony Campolo for another exciting session! A Developer Advocate at StepZen, Anthony, has worked extensively on many Open-Source projects. He is the Lead Developer Advocate on the RedwoodJS Core team, where he contributes articles, podcasts, and presentations about the framework. Moreover, he is a well-experienced techie with experience in different frontend, backend, and deployment technologies. Hear Josh and Anthony discuss different value propositions around AWS CDK, AWS SAM, SLS framework and how those topics and accessibility are being considered on RedwoodJS! Also, hear how to pick a good coding bootcamp, and more in this JAMstacked episode! If you like this podcast and want, visit our website where it is all there and always free: talkingserverless.io   And if you want to follow this guest on social media you can find him here on Twitter @ajcwebdev --- Send in a voice message: https://anch

If you thought listening was fun, just wait until you see this: The Talking Serverless Podcast is turning 50 (episodes old!) To celebrate Ryan jones is joined by Alex Lee, VP of Engineering at Serverless Guru, and a close friend. In this episode hear Alex break down his serverless journey, from code school to Nike, and into his role at SG. Find out the aspects of software development that interest Alex the most, and his perspective on things like team structure, organizational efficiency, project management, and much more. For more Alex Lee content watch the Leadership Rocks video series on Serverless Guru's Youtube Channel. And as always, follow us on Twitter (@talkingsls) to keep up with our latest news and episode releases. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/talking-serverless/message

The Talking Serverless Podcast is turning 50 (episodes old!) To celebrate Ryan jones is joined by Alex Lee, VP of Engineering at Serverless Guru, and a close friend. In this episode hear Alex break down his serverless journey, from code school to Nike, and into his role at SG. Find out the aspects of software development that interest Alex the most, and his perspective on things like team structure, organizational efficiency, project management, and much more. For more Alex Lee content watch the Leadership Rocks video series on Serverless Guru's Youtube Channel. And as always, follow us on Twitter (@talkingsls) to keep up with our latest news and episode releases.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/talking-serverless/message

If you thought listening was fun, just wait until you see this: In this episode host, Ryan Jones is joined by Mr. Bob Wall, CEO of Commandeer, a cloud management product aimed at increasing developer productivity by centralizing the developer experience and tools into a single desktop application. A talented and creative developer, Bob breaks down the what's & the how's of Commandeer and gives his perspective on the state of serverless computing, Dynamo DB, and what the future has in store. If you like this podcast and want more content, visit our website where it's all there and always free: talkingserverless.io   You can find more from Bob Wall on his Twitter: @mrbobbywall And visit Commandeer's website for more information on their product here: https://getcommandeer.com/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/talking-serverless/message