About this episode
Yan Cui discusses various aspects of serverless computing on AWS, including architecture, security, and tooling.
Today's episode is with Yan Cui, Principle consultant at TheBurningMonk Limited. We have covered several topics related to serverless in terms of adoption, architecture, security, tooling and frameworks, testing and monitoring, and much more Chapters: 00:00 Introduction and Background 02:54 Running a Consultancy Company 07:59 Self-Publishing vs. Working with a Publishing Company 11:25 The Value of Workshops and Courses 22:02 Working in different settings 25:43 Adopting serverless 39:13 Typical Serverless Architecture 44:37 Serverless Frameworks 57:28 Security Considerations in Serverless Architectures 01:00:28 Challenges and Limitations of Serverless Computing 01:03:52 Serverless as the right choice for a project 01:10:06 Ditching Serverless for monolithic applications 01:16:00 Ditching the cloud towards hosting on dedicated servers 01:21:22 Testing Serverless applications 01:31:33 Monitoring Serverless applications 01:36:41 Yan's podcast: Real World Serverless 01:37:37 Most rewarding aspect of Yan's work 01:38:31 Mental Health question Links about topics mentioned in the episode: Prime video shift towards monolithic…
People in this episode
Host: technolaaji
Guest: Yan Cui
Topics covered
- serverless computing
- AWS
- architecture
- security
- tooling
- monitoring
Keywords
- serverless
- AWS
- architecture
- security
- monitoring
- testing
- frameworks
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: TheBurningMonk Limited, Spotify, Prime Video
Books & works: Real World Serverless
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