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 safety
• Julian Wood’s Lambda internals talk at re:Invent 2022
• Jame's YouTube channel
• Crafting Lambda Functions in Rust
• Ep106 on middy with Luciano Mammino
• Ep97 on LLRT (the superfast JavaScript runtime for Lambda)

Opening theme song:
Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: 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 courses
• Andrew's free courses
• Andrew's AWS examples

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

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 channel
• Middy
• How to sponsor Middy
• Crafting Lambda Functions in Rust
• Easy mode Rust
• Using Node.js ES modules and top-level await in AWS Lambda
• Using Middy with Typescript
• Ep97 on LLRT (the superfast JavaScript runtime for Lambda)

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