Real World Serverless with theburningmonk

Mar 11 2025 113 ep. 43 mins 221

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A podcast where we talk about real-world use of Serverless technologies from engineers who work with them day-to-day. We will discuss use cases, why they chose serverless and the pain points and challenges they face. If you want to know what it's REALLY like to work with serverless, this is the show for you.

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#114: Best practices for building a multi-tenant system with Khawaja Shams

Mar 11 2025 48 mins

In this episode, I spoke with Khawaja Shams, co-founder of Momento, about cell-based architectures and how it allows Momento to scale to millions of transactions per second (TPS) while maintaining a healthy blast radius within their multi-tenant system. Links from the episode: MomentoKhawaja on XKhawaja on LinkedInBelieve In Serverless community Opening theme song: Cheery Monday by

#113: Why you need Knowledge Graphs for your AI chatbot | ft. Aniket Mitra

Feb 04 2025 45 mins

In this episode, I spoke with Aniket Mitra, founder of CW, to learn more about knowledge graphs and how they are making a comeback in the era of AI and LLMs. Opening theme song: Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.

#112: Better Developer Experience for Event-Driven Architectures | ft. Alex Bouchard, co-founder of Hookdeck

Jan 28 2025 59 mins

In this episode, I spoke with Alex Bouchard, co-founder and CTO of Hookdeck, to learn more about Hookdeck and how it differs from Amazon EventBridge. This episode contains a live demo of Hookdeck, for the best viewing experience, please watch the recording on YouTube here. Alex gave me a demo of Hookdeck, which has some nice features for addressing common developer experience probl

#111 - EventCatalog Revolutionizes Governance in Event-Driven Architectures | ft. David Boyne

Jan 17 2025 51 mins

In this episode, I spoke with David Boyne, the creator of EventCatalog, to learn more about the most common challenges with Event-Driven Architectures and how EventCatalog can solve the governance problem - how events are versioned, schema'd, discovered and tested. This episode includes a short demo of EventCatalog, if you want to see the demo in action, then check out the video ve

#109: Building serverless apps in PHP with Bref | ft Matthieu Napoli

Oct 24 2024 55 mins

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. In this episode, I spoke with Matthieu Napoli about the Bref framework for developing serverless applications in PHP - how it works, why PHP and how it

#108: Lambda on Rust with James Eastham

Sep 20 2024 62 mins

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 Ru

#107: How to Have a Successful Cloud Career in 2024 | ft. Andrew Brown

Aug 27 2024 52 mins

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 c

#106: Rust with Lambda, easy-mode Rust & future of Middy | ft. Luciano Mammino

Aug 13 2024 45 mins

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

#105: The inception story of Cognito & secret to succeeding at AWS | ft. David Behroozi

Jul 26 2024 74 mins

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 dem

#104: Baseline, is this new serverless development framework better than Amplify?

Jul 16 2024 57 mins

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 s