Today's guest is Leon Stigter, Principal Product Manager for Akka Serverless. We discuss the origins and promises of serverless, some of the limitations of stateless functions for serverless, why data-centric serverless applications need more data access patterns to get the job done, how Akka Serverless democratizes access to the features and patterns developers need to be successful, and more.

Our guests Kiki Carter, Lead Developer Experience Engineer, and Hugh McKee, Developer Advocate for Akka Platform, return to the show after our last podcast, where we discussed whether it is worth it to manage Kubernetes (and other cloud native technologies and infrastructure) yourself, or use a managed solution. This naturally led to the topic of what developers actually want out of the technologies they use, and what are the truly important parts of the user experience.

Today we sit down with Christopher Hunt (Twitter: @huntchr), former Lightbender and now the founder/CTO of an Australian IoT startup called Titan Class. Commissioned by Cisco Systems, Titan Class makes Farmify, a field-based digital twin IoT solution designed using Akka Streams that gathers and analyzes various sensor metrics to enable intelligent farming.

Learn more here:

https://www.titanclass.com.au/

https://www.farmify.com.au/

In this podcast, our special guest is Alison Gianotto, aka [at]snipeyhead on Twitter. Alison is the CEO and founder of Grokability, the company behind Snipe-IT, which is a free as well as hosted solution for managing the where, when, and what of a company’s physical assets.

Today we’re talking about going from an open source hobby to a hosted platform with a global client base and increasing revenues, and hopefully touch on other topics like using social networks for business, the implications of serverless as an industry trend, and questions we’re tired of answering repeatedly.

Note: This discussion includes some NSFW language so please throw those headphones on! :-)

Here are the relevant links to subjects we discussed:

- https://grokstar.dev/business/2021/06/feel-the-churn-but-preferably-not/

- https://grokstar.dev/business/2020/12/the-awkwardness-of-branding-and-naming-things-in-open-source-saas/

- https://grokstar.dev/business/2017/08/choosing-a-model-for-your-open-source-business/

- https://goodforms.com

In this Lightbend podcast with Kiki Carter, Lead Developer Experience Engineer, and Hugh McKee, Developer Advocate for Akka Platform, we take a look at work.

Namely, how much time should software engineers give to working on something that we don’t like, aren’t especially good at, or would otherwise avoid in favor of other more interesting topics?

Industry trends indicate that the less we developers need to mess with Kubernetes and other cloud based entities like databases and load balancers, the better off we all are. Today we’ll talk about why developers feel this way, what technologies are out there to help, and how to think about what we might outsource in terms of operations, deployment and management of our cloud-based systems.

In this Lightbend podcast, we are joined by Abby Kearns, CTO at Puppet and Lightbend board member, to discuss how cloud native applications enable enterprise innovation, best practices for getting started, and the rise of new cloud native technologies.

In this Lightbend podcast, we are joined by Jeremy Pollock, Senior Director of Product Management, to discuss the recent release of Akka Cloud Platform on AWS, what this means for Akka users, where Lightbend is heading with regards to cloud-based marketplace offerings and even our plans for hosted services.

Read the transcription: https://www.lightbend.com/blog/lightbend-podcast-akka-cloud-platform-what-why-and-whats-next

Aleksandar Skrbic, a software developer based in Novi Sad, Serbia, and author of some great introductory posts on Akka Actors, discusses how Akka has boosted his Scala career as a distributed systems developer.

Has the momentum behind serverless architectures for cloud native apps stalled? Viktor Klang, VP of Cloud at Lightbend, weighs in.

In this Lightbend Podcast, we sit down with Renato Cavalcanti, senior engineer on the Akka team, frequent conference speaker (at least in past days), and organizer of the Belgian Scala User Group, BeScala. The topic is the recent release of Akka Projections 1.0, a new addition to the Akka toolkit that provides the next generation solution for CQRS and Event Sourcing in cloud native applications.