Episodes

  • Lambda Event Sources: From Infrastructure to Implementation

    Lambda Event Sources: From Infrastructure to Implementation
    Mar 14 2025
    Hosts Tiffany Souterre and Sebastien Stormacq sit down with Rajesh Pandey to explore the critical role of events in AWS Lambda. They dive deep into how events trigger Lambda functions and how AWS has built infrastructure to ensure high availability while optimizing costs for customers. Rajesh explains the various event sources supported by Lambda and discusses important considerations around streaming data, latency, and performance. The conversation covers essential topics for developers including message handling, at-least-once delivery guarantees, and the developer's responsibility in tracking and managing messages. The trio explores advanced features such as event filtering—a highly popular capability that has evolved rapidly—and batching configurations that can significantly impact application performance. They also discuss observability best practices essential for successful service integrations and recent innovations with Kafka that offer ultra-low latency options. Whether you're new to serverless or an experienced Lambda developer, this episode provides valuable insights into building resilient, cost-effective, and high-performing event-driven architectures on AWS.
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    43 mins
  • The AWS Documenttaion, past, present, and future

    The AWS Documenttaion, past, present, and future
    Mar 7 2025
    In this episode of the AWS Developers Podcast, we welcome Greg Wilson, Director of AWS Documentation, SDK, and CLI. Together, we dive into the world of AWS documentation, its evolution, and the challenges it presents. Greg shares how his team is restructuring content to improve accessibility and make it easier for developers to find the information they need. He explains how customer feedback drives improvements and how AI is beginning to play a role in optimizing and generating documentation. We also discuss the new Decision Guides, designed to help users choose the right AWS services based on their specific needs. Finally, Greg gives us a glimpse into the priorities for 2024 and beyond, including enhancing the user experience and integrating personalized recommendations. A fascinating conversation for anyone who relies on AWS documentation in their daily work.
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    50 mins
  • In-Memory Solutions on AWS: ElastiCache, Valkey, and MemoryDB Explained

    In-Memory Solutions on AWS: ElastiCache, Valkey, and MemoryDB Explained
    Feb 28 2025
    In this episode, I'm joined by Lakshmi Peri, Solutions Architect Specialist for in-memory services at AWS, to explore the landscape of in-memory database solutions available on AWS. From the history of ElastiCache to the latest developments with Valkey and MemoryDB, this conversation covers everything developers need to know about leveraging in-memory technologies for their applications. Lakshmi explains the evolution from basic caching solutions to today's sophisticated in-memory databases that can handle complex data structures, vectors for AI applications, and geospatial information. Whether you're starting a new application or optimizing an existing one, this episode provides valuable insights into choosing the right in-memory solution for your specific needs, with guidance on balancing performance, durability, and cost-effectiveness.
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    42 mins
  • A thousand apps in the cloud: bsport's iOS building strategy on EC2 Mac

    A thousand apps in the cloud: bsport's iOS building strategy on EC2 Mac
    Feb 21 2025
    bsport, a startup, provides a SaaS application to manage wellness studios like pilates, fitness, and yoga places. They also offer a white-label mobile application that customers can personalize and publish on the Google Play Store and App Store. Previously, provisioning macOS machines on-prem was time-consuming. Now, they automate the entire continuous integration chain in the cloud, regularly building over a thousand iOS apps on Amazon EC2 Mac. Listen to this episode to learn about bsport's continuous integration architecture, how they manage EC2 images, code signing, and more.
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    30 mins
  • Unlocking VPC integration with Step Functions and EventBridge

    Unlocking VPC integration with Step Functions and EventBridge
    Feb 14 2025
    In this conversation, Justin, Ashish and Seb discuss the integration of AWS services such as Amazon EventBridge and AWS Step Functions with private APIs powered by AWS PrivateLink and Amazon VPC Lattice. They explore customer requirements for secure access to private resources, highlighting the collaborative efforts among AWS teams to address these needs and emphasizing the importance of establishing network foundations. They also delve into the future trends in application integration and networking, the transparent pricing structure for the new capabilities, and troubleshooting connectivity issues. If you develop solutions using Amazon EventBridge or AWS Step Function, don't miss this episode.
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    41 mins
  • Amazon Cognito - Simplifying user authentication

    Amazon Cognito - Simplifying user authentication
    Feb 7 2025
    In this episode of the AWS Developers Podcast, we welcome Rahul Sharma and Kevin Shanley to discuss AWS Cognito, a service for user authentication and identity management in web and mobile applications. The guests outline Cognito's updates: a new getting started experience, managed login features, and passwordless authentication options. They explain how these changes affect developers implementing authentication systems and discuss the technical aspects of passkeys implementation. The conversation details Cognito's pricing structure, now organized in three tiers: light, essentials, and plus. The team explains what each tier includes and finish by sharing some perspectives on the future of identity services.
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    44 mins
  • Integrate Pandas with AWS services

    Integrate Pandas with AWS services
    Jan 31 2025
    In this episode, we explore the AWS SDK for Pandas, an open-source library that simplifies integration between Pandas and AWS services. We discuss the importance of Pandas in data processing, the challenges faced by users, and real-world use cases. We also highlight the community contributing to the library's improvement and the various ways it can be deployed. This conversation delves into the integration of the Pandas library with other tools, data distribution via Ray and Modin, and the use of the library with DynamoDB. We also discuss the benefits and responsibilities of an open-source project, the importance of automation in managing contributions, and lessons learned about scalability.
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    34 mins
  • Blue green deployment for your databases

    Blue green deployment for your databases
    Jan 24 2025
    In this episode, we talked with Keyur Diwan to dive deep into the concept of Blue-Green Deployment, particularly in the context of databases on AWS. We discuss the origins of this deployment strategy and how it has evolved to suit cloud environments. The conversation covers the benefits, challenges, and cost implications of implementing Blue-Green Deployment for stateful systems like databases, focusing on replication, schema changes, and the switchover process. Tune in to learn how Blue-Green Deployment can help reduce downtime, enhance database performance, and simplify change management, as well as explore future trends that aim to make this deployment model more robust and user-friendly.
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    50 mins