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Software HuddleRewriting in Rust + Being a Learning Machine with AJ StuyvenbergToday's guest is AJ Stuyvenberg, a Staff Engineer at Datadog working on their Serverless observability project. He had a great article recently about how they rewrote their AWS Lambda extension in Rust. It's a really interesting look at a big, hard project, from thinking about when it's a good idea to do a rewrite to talking about their focus on performance and reliability above all else and what he thinks about the Rust ecosystem.
Beyond that, AJ is just a learning machine, so I got his thoughts on all kinds of software development topics, from underrated AWS...2025-05-061h 21
Bij OnsBij Ons - Aflevering 4 - Koen van Assema (Fotograaf Mokum Magazine)Bij Ons is het nieuwe praatprogramma van Mokum Magazine, waarin hoofdredacteur Martijn van Stuyvenberg en chef redacteur Boris van Leeuwen de Amsterdamse actualiteiten bespreken. In de iconische setting van Café Lowietje gaan zij in gesprek met Amsterdammers. Mokum Magazine-fotograaf Koen van Assema is te gast in de vierde aflevering, waarin onder meer gesproken wordt over vervelende managers en de titelkansen van Ajax.2025-02-2115 minBij OnsBij Ons - Aflevering 3 - Rik Lelieveld (Café Lowietje)Bij Ons is het nieuwe praatprogramma van Mokum Magazine, waarin hoofdredacteur Martijn van Stuyvenberg en chef redacteur Boris van Leeuwen de Amsterdamse actualiteiten bespreken. In de iconische setting van Café Lowietje gaan zij in gesprek met Amsterdammers. Lowietje-eigenaar Rik Lelieveld is te gast in de derde aflevering, waarin onder meer gesproken wordt over de fietsnietjes in de Jordaan en het mogelijke verbod op demonstreren op de snelweg.2025-01-3126 minBij OnsBij Ons - Aflevering 2 - Bert KopsBij Ons is het nieuwe praatprogramma van Mokum Magazine, waarin hoofdredacteur Martijn van Stuyvenberg en chef redactie Boris van Leeuwen de Amsterdamse actualiteiten bespreken. In de iconische setting van Café Lowietje gaan zij in gesprek met Amsterdammers. Sportschool eigenaar en kampioen worstelen Bert Kops is te gast in de tweede aflevering, waarin onder meer gesproken wordt over hoe zijn leven onlangs gered werd en hoe irritant fietsers volgens hem zijn.2025-01-0325 minBij OnsBij Ons - Aflevering 1 - Rik Lelieveld (Café Lowietje)Bij Ons is het nieuwe praatprogramma van Mokum Magazine, waarin hoofdredacteur Martijn van Stuyvenberg en chef redacteur Boris van Leeuwen de Amsterdamse actualiteiten bespreken. In de iconische setting van Café Lowietje gaan zij in gesprek met Amsterdammers. Lowietje-eigenaar Rik Lelieveld is te gast in de eerste aflevering, waarin onder meer gesproken wordt over de BBB die naar Amsterdam wil komen en René van der Gijp die niks met onze prachtige hoofdstad meent te hebben.2024-12-2715 min
Real World Serverless with theburningmonk#94: Serverless Framework v4 with Austen CollinsIn this episode, I spoke with Austen Collins, founder and CEO of Serverless Inc. about the upcoming release of Serverless Framework v4.We talked about the origin of the Serverless Framework and the challenges it faces. We discussed the rationale behind the upcoming changes in v4. Including the ability to easily switch between containers and Lambda functions as the deployment target, and the revenue share model for Extensions.Links from the episode:* Serverless v4 announcement post* HashiCorp's license change announcement* Ep87 with Anton Babenko on the Terraform pricing change* Ep88...2023-12-271h 14
vBrownBagThis year at AWS re:Invent we are going to interview conference attendees, AWS Heroes, and AWS employees. We're asking them what they are excited about at re:Invent and what they are working on!
Join us to hear the answer to these questions from some of the top minds in the industry!!!
Resources:
AJ
https://aaronstuyvenberg.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaron-stuyvenberg/
AJ's re:Invent talk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EDNcPvR45w
#awsreinvent #aws #threequestions2023-12-1100 min
AWS Bites107. Expert opinions from re:Invent 2023In this episode, we share expert opinions from AWS community leaders on their favorite announcements from re:Invent 2023, advice for those starting their cloud journey, predictions for the future of serverless, whether to go multi-cloud or not, and how AI will impact developers. Our guests provide insightful perspectives on getting hands-on experience, leveraging the AWS community, thinking through architectural decisions, and more.
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In this episode, we...2023-12-0820 min
The Christian Psychologist: Mental Health for 21st Century Christ FollowersEpisode 51: ShameReferencesAPA Dictionary of Psychology. (n.d.). Shame. https://dictionary.apa.org/shameBonhoeffer, D. (1955). Ethics. Touchstone.Bonhoeffer, D. (1959). Creation and fall. Touchstone.Ceclan, A. A., & Nechita, D. M. (2021). The effects of self‐compassion components on shame‐proneness in individuals with depression: An exploratory study. Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, 28(5), 1103-1110.Cohen, T., Wolf, S., Panter, A., & Insko, C. (2011). Introducing the GASP scale: A new measure of guilt and shame proneness. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 100, 947-966.Gilbert, P. (1998). What is shame? Some core issues and controversies. In P. G...2023-11-1232 min
Real World Serverless with theburningmonk#88: Optimizing Lambda cold starts with AJ StuyvenbergIn this episode, I spoke with AJ Stuyvenberg, who is an AWS Hero and staff engineer at Datadog. We discussed the findings from the latest state of serverless report and spoke about Lambda cold starts at length. AJ has done some incredible research into Lambda cold starts and shared the 4 biggest mistakes people make regarding Lambda cold starts.If you care about getting the best performance for your Lambda functions and minimizing cold starts, then this is the episode for you!Links from the episode:State of Serverless reportCorey Quinn's 17 ways to run containers...2023-11-0853 min
How About Tomorrow?A Conversation with AJ StuyvenbergDax and AJ Stuyvenberg talk about speed running hobbies, how dangerous skydiving is, working remote vs in office, the Trader Joe's model of queuing theory, being bad at something before you can be ok, and what keeps us going years into our work.Want to carry on the conversation? Join us in Discord.Links:Mission: Impossible - Dead ReckoningAWS re:Invent 2023What I learned from Lego LeagueDynamoDBZen and the Art of Motorcycle MaintenanceAn Interview with Tuomas Artman of LinearTopics discussed:
(00:00) - Adam's speedrun
(00:26) - Lights, mics, and cigars
(02:19) - AJ's...2023-08-281h 12
Ready, Set, Cloud Podcast!BONUS - Are Cold Starts Gone Forever with AJ Stuyvenberg
Anyone who's heard of serverless has heard of cold starts. But have you heard about proactive initialization? This is a newly published service enhancement from the AWS Lambda team that pre-warms execution environments of on-demand functions. This enhancement results in reduced cold start times and costs consumers no extra money to take advantage of. In this short bonus episode, Allen and AJ talk about what you need to know about his exciting optimization. The two cover how it was discovered, why the AWS Lambda team made the change, and what you need to do to get started with it.2023-07-2414 min
Talking Under WaterBonus Episode: Smart water products & solutions with Badger MeterIn this sponsored episode of Talking Under Water, Bob Crossen speaks with Badger Meter Vice President of Software and Water Quality Matt Stuyvenberg about smart water, flow measurement and water quality. Badger Meter acquired ATI Technologies, s::can and Syrinix to bolster its presence in the water quality and pressure measurement markets. By combining the company’s expertise in flow measurement with these pressure measurement and water quality technologies, Stuyvenberg explains how intelligent measurement is improving utility decision-making around the world.
Show Notes:
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Ultrasonic meters deliver smart savings for Rowan C...2023-05-2422 minTalking Under WaterBonus Episode: Smart water products & solutions with Badger MeterIn this sponsored episode of Talking Under Water, Bob Crossen speaks with Badger Meter Vice President of Software and Water Quality Matt Stuyvenberg about smart water, flow measurement and water quality. Badger Meter acquired ATI Technologies, s::can and Syrinix to bolster its presence in the water quality and pressure measurement markets. By combining the company’s expertise in flow measurement with these pressure measurement and water quality technologies, Stuyvenberg explains how intelligent measurement is improving utility decision-making around the world.
Show Notes:
Visit the Badger Meter website
Ultrasonic meters deliver smart savings for Rowan C...2023-05-2422 min
AWS Bites74. Function URLs vs API GatewayHow can you use a Lambda to respond to an HTTP request? There are more ways than ever to do it. We have API Gateway REST APIs, Lambda support for Application Load Balancer, and now Function URLs. But which one should you use, and when?
In this episode of AWS Bites podcast, we will give you a quick and simple guide to picking the best way to build APIs with Lambda. In this video, we're going to pitch Function URLs against API Gateway in a battle for the ages!
Function URLs offer a simple and quick way to get...2023-03-3123 minReady, Set, Cloud Podcast!Why Is Serverless Observability So Hard with AJ Stuyvenberg
Serverless is taking the world by storm. Despite there being countless blogs, tutorials, and recommended best practices around serverless, there's shockingly little material on observability. Why? It's hard! Join AJ and Allen as they talk about the difficulties of observing a serverless application, dive into the differences between KPIs and infrastructure metrics, what the future holds for observability, and more.
About AJAJ Stuyvenberg is the Engineering Lead for Serverless APM at Datadog, and has been a member of the Serverless community for 6+ years. He's an AWS Community Builder, serverless meetup organizer, open source author, and...2023-03-2430 min
The CloudcastThe State of Serverless 2022AJ Stuyvenberg (@astuyve, Engineer Lead @DatadogHQ) talks about the 2022 State of Serverless Report and the latest serverless trends. SHOW: 645CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Datadog Synthetic Monitoring: Frontend and Backend Modern MonitoringEnsure frontend issues don’t impair user experience by detecting user-facing issues with API and browser tests with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt. Streamline on-call, coll...2022-08-2433 min
Constant VariablesServerless: Oofda! with Bryson Tyrrell of Jamf and AJ Stuyvenberg of DatadogIf the term “Serverless,” has you uttering "Oofda", this episode is for you, where Bryson Tyrrell and AJ Stuyvenberg prove why they’re serverless subject matter experts. **SHOW LINKS** AJ on Twitter | https://twitter.com/astuyve Bryson on Twitter | https://twitter.com/bryson3gps Serverless MN Meetup | https://www.meetup.com/Serverless-MN/ Connect with The Jed Mahonis Group on LinkedIn | https://linkedin.com/company/the-jed-mahonis-group Show notes | https://constantvariables.co Chat with The Jed Mahonis Group about your app dev questions | https://jmg.mn Are you...2022-06-0754 min
Screaming in the CloudGoing Serverless with AJ StuyvenbergAbout AJ StuyvenbergAaron Stuyvenberg (AJ) is a Senior Engineer at Serverless Inc, focused on creating the best possible Serverless developer experience. Before Serverless, he was a Lead Engineer at SportsEngine (an NBCUniversal company). When he's not busy writing software, you can find him skydiving, BASE jumping, biking, or fishing.Links Referenced: Twitter: @astuyveServerless.comServerless Blog2019-09-1840 min
KurkentrackerBeste Belgische Wijn 2018 Het is met Belgische wijn - althans voor de meesten onder ons - vreemd genoeg zoals met de Griekse gesteld (zie aflevering 3): relatief onbekend en dus ook ja, redelijk onbemind. Daardoor hebben veel wijnliefhebbers niet gemerkt dat de kwaliteit van onze wijnen er zeker de laatste tien jaar enorm op vooruitgegaan is. De verkiezing van Beste Belgische Wijn kan de bekendheid en appreciatie voor Belgische wijn hopelijk wat aanwakkeren. Ik had de ongelofelijke eer en het genoegen om deze verkiezing - waarbij alleen ervaren sommeliers en wijnprofessionals in de jury zetelen - dit jaar live bij te wonen. Tussen...2018-11-0934 min