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

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/nhWYlzb8mSA

Links from the episode:

• David's LinkedIn profile
• David's Twitter profile
• Learn more about Speedrun
• David's blog
• How to Securely let Frontend Apps to Directly Access AWS services

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 podcast.

Thomas Nixon, CTO of Baseline, shares stories from the trenches about the challenges of adopting serverless technologies.

He gave us a demo of Baseline.js, a new serverless development framework that captures the many hard-learned lessons his team has made in the last six years.

Think Amplify, but you own the source code and can easily customize things to suit your needs. I recommend watching the episode on YouTube so you can see the full demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6r8M8E_5n4

Links from the episode:

• Getting started with Baseline.js
• Baseline's Github repo
• Thomas' LinkedIn profile

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. Please check them out and help support this podcast.

Allen Helton on being an enabler, building communities, and is serverless dead?

Links from the episode:

• Help Olivia's Fight Against Leukemia!
• Believe In Serverless community
• Ready, Set, Cloud!
• Momento, serverless cache
• Ep102: Peek behind the curtains of the AWS Heroes & Community Builders programmes, ft. Farrah Campbell

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

Take a peek behind the AWS Heroes and Community Builders programmes with Farrah Campbell, who was a former AWS hero turned AWS employee. Nowadays, Farrah heads up both the AWS Heroes and Community Builders programmes.

Links from the episode:

• How to become an AWS hero by Danielle Heberling
• S3 no longer charges for unauthorized requests
• AWS Heroes directory
• AWS Community Builders directory

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

In this episode, I spoke with Brian LeRoux, co-founder of begin.com and creator of the Architect framework. Brian is also an AWS Serverless Hero and is currently working on enhance.dev, an HTML-first full-stack web framework.

In a wide-ranging conversation, we discussed:

• the Architect framework
• Lambdalith vs. Single-purpose functions
• Building a faster AWS SDK (aws-lite)
• Web components
• Functionless
• WASM
• Infra from code frameworks such as Ampt

Links from the episode:

• AWS Lite SDK
• Architect framework
• Begin
• Enhance framework
• The LocalStack episode
• The LLRT episode
• Ampt by Jeremy Daly
• My serverless testing course

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