Welcome to the ninth episode of The Serverless Mindset podcast!

In this episode, I chat with Alex Kearns, a Lead Consultant at Inawisdom, in the UK. Together we walk through what we believe are the most relevant services announced at re:Invent 2022 for serverless developers.

Show highlights

* The four most relevant services announced at re:Invent 2022 for serverless developers:

* Our review of how these services are performing in the real world, nearly two months after their announcement

* The drive within AWS for an improved Developer Experience, and how this is causing new enthusiasm within the Serverless community

* The concerning pattern of services getting launched without CloudFormation support from day one

* Our appreciation for the Cloudscape design system which is making newer services UI’s look a lot nicer

* Our thoughts on the ever-closer dream of end-to-end cloud-based development, and how CodeCatalyst helps us get there

Links and resources

Top announcements of re:Invent 2022

Alex Kearns on LinkedIn

CodeCatalyst

EventBridge Pipes

EventBridge Scheduler

Application Composer

Welcome to the eighth episode of The Serverless Mindset podcast!

In this episode, I chat with Jones Zachariah Noel, an AWS Serverless Hero and DevRel at Freshworks in Bengaluru, India.

Show highlights

* Best options for choreography vs orchestration within the AWS ecosystem

* Why direct integrations are often to be preferred over custom code, even though there are challenges (such as testing)

* Why Jones recommends using SAM (Amazon’s Serverless Application Model) for building distributed serverless applications

* A bunch of useful testing techniques for event-driven applications

* How to prevent your Step Functions setup from turning into a monolithic system

* Rules of thumb for when to prefer orchestration vs choreography

Links and resources

* Everything AWS, Serverless and Architectures (newsletter curated by Jones)

* Jones Zachariah Noel on Twitter

* Amazon EventBridge

* Amazon Step Functions

* SAM

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Welcome to the seventh episode of The Serverless Mindset podcast!

In this episode, I chat with Sam Williams, a serverless consultant and teacher based in Germany.

Show highlights

* The two-step process for becoming a confident developer: strong foundations and building lots of applications

* Deviating from the happy path is a great way to gain confidence and develop problem solving skills

* Getting started with a basic serverless setup is perfectly acceptable

* Getting to grips with serverless and the AWS ecosystem can be challenging because finding the right information is not easy

* AWS Labs are an incredibly useful resource for learning

* Picking one teacher is key to make learning serverless a lot easier

Links and resources

* “Master Serverless with 7 Projects” course

* Complete Coding YouTube channel

* AWS Builder Labs

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Music by Anton_Vlasov from Pixabay