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▶  Serverless in a DevOps World with Sarjeel Yusuf — Sarjeel Yusuf is a project manager at Atlassian and spoke to Jeremy Daly about the value of devops in modern development teams and how serverless makes app deployment and general devops automation better and faster.

▶  Discussing Azure Functions with Jeff Hollan — Jeremy Daly talks with Microsoft’s Jeff Hollan about all things Azure Functions related and other Azure ecosystem services that run alongside it like Logic Apps.

▶  How IBM Cloud Works with Serverless — Jeremy Daly talks with Michael Behrendt from IBM Cloud about their involvement with serverless technologies such as with IBM Code Engine, their platform for abstracting away operational concerns around Kubernetes-based workloads.

▶  Discussing Serverless Compute at the Edge with Tyler McMullen — Tyler McMullen of Fastly talks about the future of compute at the edge and what it means for things like data replication, security, and observability.

▶  Discussing Serverless for Operations with Ryan Coleman — Ryan Coleman of Stackery talks about his work as a sysadmin and where serverless fits into the ops sphere.

▶  Building Well-Architected Serverless using CDK Patterns — Guest Matt Coulter built CDKPatterns.com, a site that lets you browse through lots of different patterns and how they’d be defined using the AWS Cloud Development Kit (an imperative and perhaps more developer friendly alternative to CloudFormation, if you will).

▶  Achieving Operational Excellence with Taavi Rehemagi — Dashbird’s CEO talks to Jeremy Daly about what’s still missing with serverless observability, what modern monitoring and ops strategies look like, and how to implement best practices to ensure well-architected applications.

▶  Optimizing for Maintainability with Joe Emison — Joe is the CTO of Branch, an insurance company, and this episode of Serverless Chats digs more into organizational issues around maintainability, stakeholder trust, and how Branch builds its software. Oh, and they’re fully serverless too.

▶  Discussing a Typical Serverless Architecture — Jeremy Daly chats with Xavier Lefevre (of Theodo) about what a ‘typical’ serverless architecture looks like on AWS and how to use his serverless cost calculator.

▶  Discussing How to Optimize Your Lambda Functions — I don’t like to link to multi-part podcasts until all the parts are available, but this is a great exception as it covers the valuable topic of optimizing Lambda functions and how to use Alex Casalboni’s AWS Lambda Power Tuning tool to finely balance cost and performance. This sort of work is always time well spent...

▶  The Story of the Serverless Framework — The first of a two part podcast interview where Jeremy Daly talks to Austen Collins (CEO of Serverless Inc) about the origins of Serverless Framework and Serverless Inc.

▶  Discussing Serverless Transformation at AWS — Holly Mesrobian, a director of engineering at AWS, talks to Jeremy Daly about how teams at AWS are adopting serverless technologies for themselves and how AWS Lambda is making other AWS services better.

▶  From ColdFusion to Serverless with Raymond Camden — Jeremy Daly chats with Ray Camden about his journey from working with ColdFusion to serverless, how developers should be thinking about the serverless paradigm, and why the Jamstack (yes, we have a newsletter about that!) provides a perfect level of abstraction.

▶  Discussing Building Serverless with Begin — This week, Jeremy Daly spoke with Paul Chin, Jr. about how Begin (a serverless deployment tooling platform) and Architect (a serverless framework for JS, Python and Ruby) make it easier to build and deploy serverless applications.

▶  The Well-Architected Serverless Lens with Heitor Lessa — Jeremy Daly chats with Heitor Lessa about how best practices are defined, how services are chosen for the serverless lens, and more.

▶  Discussing Serverless Observability with Erica Windisch — Jeremy Daly and Erica Windisch talk about the challenges around monitoring and troubleshooting serverless apps and why observability is particularly important in this space. (67 minutes)

▶  Building Serverless Applications Using Webiny — This week, Jeremy Daly talks with Sven Al Hamad of Webiny, an open source framework for building serverless apps on top of AWS Lambda.

▶  Accelerating DynamoDB Workflows using Dynobase — A 50 minute podcast chat about using DynamoDB, where DynamoDB shines, and how the (paid) Dynobase DynamoDB GUI client can help.

Serverless PHP Using Bref with Matthieu Napoli — A chat with Matthieu Napoli about the role of PHP and taking PHP serverless. This is a growing topic recently as we’ve linked to articles about serverless PHP and there’s also Vapor, an interesting serverless deployment platform for the PHP Laravel framework.

▶  Looking Back at the Best of a Year of Serverless Chats — Host Jeremy Daly looks back at a full year of podcasting interviews with a variety of serverless luminaries by featuring lots of ‘best of’ bits and pieces from interviews across the year.

▶  The Past, Present, and Future of Serverless — An hour long chat with Tim Wagner, the initial inventor of AWS Lambda and then manager for Lambda, API Gateway, and the Serverless Application Repository. A lot to enjoy here!

▶  Static First Using Serverless Frontends with Guillermo Rauch — A chat with Next.js and Vercel’s (formerly ZEIT) Guillermo Rauch about the difference between front-end and backend serverless and making front-end Web experiences work as quickly as possible.

▶  Things I Wish I Knew Before Migrating to the Cloud with Jared Short — Trek10’s Jared Short talks about the ‘ever expanding’ cloud work and why trying to master every cloud service isn’t really viable. This chat is less about tech per se and more about how to approach and structure its use.

▶  Discussing Serverless Developer Culture with Linda Nichols — Jeremy Daly chats with Microsoft’s Linda Nichols about modern cloud development and deployment practices, the importance of ops, and testing culture.

▶  Discussing Serverless Use Cases with Gareth McCumskey — A chat with Gareth McCumskey (of Serverless Inc) about different production-level serverless use cases including RESTful APIs, GraphQL, WebSockets, and capturing clickstream data.

▶  Better Serverless Microservices using Domain Driven Design — Jeremy Daly chats with Susanne Kaiser, an independent serverless consultant, about the patterns and practices of Domain Driven Design and how they can help you build better serverless backends. (55 minutes.)

▶  Communication Patterns in Serverless with Paul Swail — A chat about the types of messaging systems available from AWS, how to use them with your serverless apps, and how thinking asynchronously is key when building resilient systems.

▶  Using HTTP APIs for API Gateway with Eric Johnson and Alan Tan — A discussion of why HTTP APIs (which now has a rather specific meaning in the API Gateway context) should be your first choice, the path to REST API feature parity, implementing CORS and authentication, and more.