The AWS Developers Podcast

In this episode, Dave and Emily chat with Lynn Langit, a Cloud Architect,

Teacher, and AWS Data Hero. Lynn walks through her journey to the cloud, understanding the

need for different types of data, gives an excellent overview of the different AWS Data

Services, and how you can get started choosing the right one for your needs.

Lynn on Twitter: https://twitter.com/lynnlangit

Emily on Twitter: https://twitter.com/editingemily

Dave on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thedavedev

Lynn on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lynnlangit/

Lynn’s Blog: https://lynnlangit.com/

Lynn on Medium: https://lynnlangit.medium.com/

Lynn’s AWS Data Hero Profile: https://aws.amazon.com/developer/community/heroes/lynn-langit/

[Training] Lynn’s AWS Data Services LinkedIn Learning Course:

https://www.linkedin.com/learning/amazon-web-services-data-services-2/scalable-data-solutions-on-aws

[Git] Lynn’s AWS Data Services Course on Github:

https://github.com/lynnlangit/Hello-AWS-Data-Services

[Git] AWS Open Guide on GitHub: https://github.com/open-guides/og-aws

[Medium] Cloud-native Hello World for Bioinformatics:

https://lynnlangit.medium.com/cloud-native-hello-world-for-bioinformatics-9cfabf2dd389

[Book] Seven Databases in Seven Weeks: A Guide to Modern Databases and the NoSQL Movement:

https://www.amazon.com/Seven-Databases-Weeks-Modern-Movement-ebook-dp-B07CYLX6FD/dp/B07CYLX6FD

[AWS Service] Amazon HealthLake: https://aws.amazon.com/healthlake/

[AWS Service] AWS Timestream: https://aws.amazon.com/timestream

[Training] Lynn’s Course on Cloud Quantum Computing Essentials:

https://www.linkedin.com/learning/cloud-quantum-computing-essentials/creating-solutions-with-cloud-quantum-computing

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Continuing their conversation from Episode 40, Dave chats with Matteo Rinaudo, a

Senior Developer Advocate for AWS CloudFormation (CFN). Matteo dives deeper into

CloudFormation, walks through the CloudFormation Hook GitHub repo, and discusses real world

advice on how to code with CloudFormation today.

Matteo on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mrinaudo

Dave on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thedavedev

AWS CloudFormation: https://go.aws/3zgjyZ7

AWS CloudFormation CLI: https://go.aws/3Mi7Ujw

AWS CloudFormation Quotas: https://go.aws/3ayBa8l

AWS CloudFormation Hooks User Guide: https://go.aws/3NTZeRo

CloudFormation Hooks Examples: https://bit.ly/3Q2s6Zy

Additional CloudFormation Hooks Java and Python Examples: https://bit.ly/3MgI4fC

Flake8 for Python Style Guide Enforcement: https://flake8.pycqa.org/

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In this episode, Dave chats with Matteo Rinaudo, a Senior Developer Advocate for

AWS CloudFormation (CFN). Matteo walks through his career start, the beginnings of

Infrastructure as Code (IaC), why CloudFormation is useful for developers, and the recent

launch of CloudFormation Hooks. CloudFormation Hooks is a new way to create executable

custom logic that will automatically inspect your cloud resources before provisioning.

Matteo on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mrinaudo

Dave on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thedavedev

AWS CloudFormation: https://go.aws/3zgjyZ7

AWS CloudFormation CLI: https://go.aws/3Mi7Ujw

AWS CloudFormation Quotas: https://go.aws/3ayBa8l

AWS CloudFormation Hooks User Guide: https://go.aws/3NTZeRo

CloudFormation Hooks Examples: https://bit.ly/3Q2s6Zy

Additional CloudFormation Hooks Java and Python Examples: https://bit.ly/3MgI4fC

Flake8 for Python Style Guide Enforcement: https://flake8.pycqa.org/

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In this episode, Emily and Dave chat with Talia Nassi, a Senior Developer

Advocate for AWS Serverless. Talia covers her cloud career, Q&A, and the oddly effective

method of testing in production. One of Talia’s passions is EDA, or Event Driven

Architecture. In this chat, Talia walks through the different event driven AWS services

developers can utilize, when to choose one over the other, and how best to get started.

Talia on Twitter: https://twitter.com/talia_nassi

Emily on Twitter: twitter.com/editingemily

Dave on Twitter: twitter.com/thedavedev

Talia at AWS re:Invent 2021 - What’s New in Serverless: https://bit.ly/3sXv1cc

Talia on the Benefits of Migrating to an Event Driven Architecture: https://go.aws/3LVU0Dr

AWS Serverless Land – News for Developers on All the Serverless Things:

https://serverlessland.com/

Amazon Event Bridge: https://aws.amazon.com/eventbridge/

AWS Compute Blog: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/

Serverless Espresso Workshop: https://bit.ly/3PHKfMp

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In this episode, Emily and Dave continue their chat with Darko Mesaros, Senior

Developer Advocate at Amazon Web Services. In part two of this two-part series, Darko talks

about his command line setup, some of the tools he uses, and tips for a productive developer

environment. Part 1 is available as Episode 037.

Darko on Twitter: twitter.com/darkosubotica

Emily on Twitter: twitter.com/editingemily

Dave on Twitter: twitter.com/thedavedev

Darko on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/darko-mesaro%C5%A1-02b66622/

Darko’s Website: https://www.rup12.net/

Darko on GitHub: https://github.com/darko-mesaros

Darko on Getting Started with AWS CLI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gg0AyLhEHM

Darko on Getting and restoring a Sun Ultra 1 Workstation:

https://www.rup12.net/posts/2021/adventures-with-sun-ultra-1-workstation/

Lolcats – rainbow output in terminal:

https://www.tecmint.com/lolcat-command-to-output-rainbow-of-colors-in-linux-terminal/

Simple PlainText Presentation Tool: https://tools.suckless.org/sent/

Arch Linux: https://archlinux.org/

Zshell: https://zsh.sourceforge.io/

VIM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vim_(text_editor)

Atari 2600: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_2600

Commodore C64c: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64#Commodore_64C

Hayes Command Sets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayes_command_set

Hayes Smart Modem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayes_Microcomputer_Products#The_Smartmodem

AWS CLI: https://aws.amazon.com/cli/

AWS Cloud Development Kit: https://aws.amazon.com/cdk/

AWS Cloud Formation: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/

AWS SDK - Multiple Programming Languages: https://aws.amazon.com/getting-started/tools-sdks/

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In this episode, Emily and Dave chat with Darko Mesaros, Senior Developer

Advocate at Amazon Web Services. In part one of this two-part series, Darko talks about

growing up in Serbia, his journey to the cloud, his love of vintage computers, and the power

of coding within limited hardware constraints.

Darko on Twitter: twitter.com/darkosubotica

Emily on Twitter: twitter.com/editingemily

Dave on Twitter: twitter.com/thedavedev

Darko on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/darko-mesaro%C5%A1-02b66622/

Darko’s Website: https://www.rup12.net/

Darko on GitHub: https://github.com/darko-mesaros

Darko on Getting Started with AWS CLI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gg0AyLhEHM

Darko on Getting and restoring a Sun Ultra 1 Workstation:

https://www.rup12.net/posts/2021/adventures-with-sun-ultra-1-workstation/

Lolcats – rainbow output in terminal:

https://www.tecmint.com/lolcat-command-to-output-rainbow-of-colors-in-linux-terminal/

Simple PlainText Presentation Tool: https://tools.suckless.org/sent/

Arch Linux: https://archlinux.org/

Zshell: https://zsh.sourceforge.io/

VIM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vim_(text_editor)

Atari 2600: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_2600

Commodore C64c: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64#Commodore_64C

Hayes Command Sets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayes_command_set

Hayes Smart Modem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayes_Microcomputer_Products#The_Smartmodem

AWS CLI: https://aws.amazon.com/cli/

AWS Cloud Development Kit: https://aws.amazon.com/cdk/

AWS Cloud Formation: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/

AWS SDK - Multiple Programming Languages: https://aws.amazon.com/getting-started/tools-sdks/

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In this episode, Dave continues his chat with Luca Bianchi, Chief Technology

Officer at Neosperience and WizKey. Luca covers his career in Machine Learning, an overview

of Machine Learning on AWS, Amazon Rekognition, Amazon Comprehend, Amazon Sagemaker, and AWS

Glue. Luca also discusses current 2022 ML trends including Transformers, and Edge Computing.

Luca on Twitter: twitter.com/bianchiluca

Dave on Twitter: twitter.com/thedavedev

Luca on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/lucabianchipavia/

Luca on Medium: medium.com/@aletheia

Amazon Rekognition: aws.amazon.com/rekognition/

Amazon Comprehend: aws.amazon.com/comprehend/

Amazon Sagemaker: aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/

AWS Glue: aws.amazon.com/glue

Towards Data Science: towardsdatascience.com/

Clean or Dirty HVAC? Using Amazon SageMaker and Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels to Automate

Detection: bit.ly/3rvpNDJ

Building a Neural Network on Amazon SageMaker with PyTorch Lightning: bit.ly/3xAmxLc

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In this episode, Dave chats with Luca Bianchi, Chief Technology Officer at

Neosperience and WizKey. Luca covers his career in Machine Learning, an overview of Machine

Learning on AWS, Amazon Rekognition, Amazon Comprehend, Amazon Sagemaker, and AWS Glue. Luca

also discusses Edge ML and what can be achieved using commodity hardware.

Luca on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bianchiluca

Dave on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thedavedev

Luca on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucabianchipavia/

Luca on Medium: https://medium.com/@aletheia

Amazon Rekognition: https://aws.amazon.com/rekognition/

Amazon Comprehend: https://aws.amazon.com/comprehend/

Amazon Sagemaker: https://aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/

AWS Glue: https://aws.amazon.com/glue

Towards Data Science: https://towardsdatascience.com/

Clean or Dirty HVAC? Using Amazon SageMaker and Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels to Automate

Detection: https://bit.ly/3rvpNDJ

Building a Neural Network on Amazon SageMaker with PyTorch Lightning: https://bit.ly/3xAmxLc

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In this episode, Dave chats with Sebastian Korfmann, Tech Lead for CDK for

Terraform at Hashicorp. Sebastian gives an overview of what CDK for Terraform (CDKTF) is,

how developers can get started, what unit testing looks like, success stories of customers

using CDKTF today, and the CDKTF team’s future plans.

Sebastian on Twitter: https://twitter.com/skorfmann

Dave on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thedavedev

CDK for Terraform project on git: https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-cdk

CDK Weekly Newsletter: https://www.cdkweekly.com/

Introduction to CDK for Terraform: https://terraform.io/cdktf

Build AWS Infrastructure with CDK for Terraform:

https://learn.hashicorp.com/tutorials/terraform/cdktf-build

CDK for Terraform in Production: Learning from Pocket:

https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/cdk-for-terraform-in-production-learning-from-pocket

CDK for Terraform with Python and its Operational Experience at ShopStyle:

https://www.hashicorp.com/resources/cdk-for-terraform-with-python-and-its-operational-experience-at-shopstyle

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In this episode, Dave chats with Nader Dabit, Developer Relations Engineer at

Edge & Node. In his career, Nader has worn the hats of a web developer, mobile

developer, AWS cloud developer, and now Web3 developer. Nader is the author behind many of

the popular, free, developer guides for the Web3 space including: The Complete Guide to Full

Stack Web3 Development, The Complete Guide to Full Stack Ethereum Development, and The

Complete Guide to Full Stack Solana Development. In part two of this two-part conversation,

Nader explains the developer lessons he has learned moving from Web2 vs Web3, some of the

misconceptions about Web3, and what Web3 can bring to people around the world.

Note: This episode is an attempt to cover the developer benefits of Web3. It does not

represent financial advice, or any specific Amazon endorsement of Bitcoin and Crypto

Currencies.

Nader on Twitter: https://twitter.com/dabit3

Dave on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thedavedev

Nader’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/naderdabit/

Nader’s YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/naderdabit

Nader on Dev.to: https://dev.to/dabit3

Nader’s Git: https://github.com/dabit3

Developer DAO on Twitter: https://twitter.com/developer_dao

The Complete Guide to Full Stack Web3 Development:

https://dev.to/dabit3/the-complete-guide-to-full-stack-web3-development-4g74

The Complete Guide to Full Stack Solana Development with React, Anchor, Rust, and Phantom:

https://dev.to/edge-and-node/the-complete-guide-to-full-stack-solana-development-with-react-anchor-rust-and-phantom-3291

The Complete Guide to Full Stack Ethereum Development:

https://dev.to/dabit3/the-complete-guide-to-full-stack-ethereum-development-3j13

Building GraphQL APIs on Ethereum:

https://dev.to/edge-and-node/building-graphql-apis-on-ethereum-4poa

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