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▶  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.

An Accessible Intro to Cloudflare Workers — If you’ve ever wondered why you might use Cloudflare’s Workers platform (a FaaS platform built on V8) rather than AWS Lambda or Azure Functions, this might give you some ideas or at least tempt you to have a play.

▶  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!