Engineers & Coffee

LiveViewJS and Boat Detection

Tue, 8 Nov 2022 15:15:00 +0000

LiveViewJS
- LiveViewJS StrangeLoop talk
Larry's AWS Rekognition powered boat photo blog

LiveViewJS Update

Wed, 25 May 2022 10:15:00 +0000

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LiveViewJS

Fri, 4 Mar 2022 14:00:00 +0000

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Surprise Engineers and Coffee drop

Sat, 12 Feb 2022 11:40:00 +0000

Sushi 🍣

Sat, 11 Jul 2020 21:15:00 +0000

Thanks Charley Frazier for joining us for a great discussion!

Type 1 and Type 2 Decisions

SwiftUI

Sat, 11 Jul 2020 21:15:00 +0000

2020 Swift WWDC Videos
- Intro to SwiftUI

2018 re:invent lambda announcements

Sat, 15 Dec 2018 21:05:00 +0000

i'm requesting a certificate right now

Fri, 13 Apr 2018 09:55:00 +0000

obvious but smart insight

Wed, 28 Mar 2018 12:05:00 +0000

aws appsync
dynamo updates
- t2 dax instances
- encryption at rest
alexa console updates
let's talk about usernames

building MakerSession.com

Mon, 26 Feb 2018 10:15:00 +0000

I'm just complaining a lot today

Thu, 1 Feb 2018 15:15:00 +0000

lambda go support
SAM local
- concurrent requests causes java lambda containers to fail
- Eclipse SAM local support
Complaining about SAM
- sammie
LambStatus
aws activate

kotlinconf 2017

Tue, 19 Dec 2017 11:10:00 +0000

let's talk about re:invent

Thu, 14 Dec 2017 11:12:00 +0000

summary of recent AWS announcements at re:invent
- re:invent videos
- AWS podcast feed for session audio
serverless aurora (PREVIEW)
aurora multi-master (PREVIEW)
global dynamo
dynamo backup/restore
transcribe
translate
comprehend
rekognition video, kinesis video
sagemaker
- jupyter notebooks
- fast.ai ML courses
EKS (PREVIEW)
fargate
easier spot workflow, hibernation
appsync
lambda updates
- traffic shifting, codedeploy lambda updates
- go support coming in 2018
- 3GB memory limit
- concurrency, throttling
cloud9
s3 select
deeplens

i just think of things in terms of functions now, man

Mon, 27 Nov 2017 14:00:00 +0000

getting ready for re:invent
update state machines for step functions
load balancer migration tool
s3 encryption/security features
aws privatelink
price list API updates
new c5 instances
- new aws hypervisor

if anything has classic in the name, it's probably not good

Sun, 12 Nov 2017 14:27:00 +0000

new amazon echo devices
apple event
looking forward to re:invent
- lambda traffic segmentation
- gluon
per second billing
network load balancer
will there be easier docker options in aws?

why is it amazon's job to tell me what i want?

Fri, 10 Nov 2017 12:15:00 +0000

feedback from doug topin on using codestar to generate CF stack templates
target tracking scaling policies for ec2 auto scaling
Airbnb BinaryAlert: Real-time Serverless Malware Detection
- yara: pattern matching for malware researchers
api gateway error response customization
- enables custom authorizer CORS support
lambda @ edge GA
- a cloud guru article: How to supercharge your static website with the power of AWS Lambda@Edge
resize images on fly w/ s3 lambda api gateway
lambda should support docker runtime!
AWS joins cloud native computing foundation
more amazon s3 bucket leaks -- keep your buckets secure!
- a cloud guru: how to secure an s3 bucket
- AWS Config Update – New Managed Rules to Secure S3 Buckets
chromeless - headless chrome on lambda

they're not gonna pay sticker price

Thu, 12 Oct 2017 12:27:00 +0000

cross account cloudwatch events
Prepare for the OWASP Top 10 Web Vulnerabilities w/ AWS WAF
archive items to s3 from dynamo using TTL
cloudwatch dashboards api/cloudformation support
new info to IAM console to follow best practices around inactive users
is it possible to host facebook on AWS
dropbox / aws

larger than life

Sun, 16 Jul 2017 12:21:00 +0000

don't give people AWS keys

Mon, 10 Jul 2017 22:09:00 +0000

white label lambda service

Sat, 24 Jun 2017 16:05:00 +0000

aws db migration service
- 26,000 DBs migration
twilio functions
- build your own IVR with lambda/twilio
github marketplace
aws saas marketplace
this week in AWS newsletter
kotlin API gateway/lambda PoC

faster, cheaper, better

Fri, 9 Jun 2017 11:15:00 +0000

google IO 2017
IAM DB authentication
IAM resource level perms for AS
codebuild updates
- codebuild managed containers on github
Mary's place at new Amazon building
google cloud speech more formats (wav, flac)

you never know if it's really gonna work

Mon, 29 May 2017 13:15:00 +0000

new echo announcements
amazon jobs breakdown
aws community day event, June 15th, San Francisco
aws public datasets
- gov spending dataset
AWS kinesis analytics anomaly detection
polly audiobook example
weekly AWS complaint, java default lambda memory size is too small
- Eric Hammond post, 'Pay The Same Price For Faster Execution'
- automatically determining lambda size
is kotlin a good fit for java?
- typescript at slack
going back to stepfunctions
- Creating a serverless AMI certification pipeline

random code you're going to delete anyway

Thu, 4 May 2017 12:37:00 +0000

i don't wanna host that

Thu, 27 Apr 2017 22:07:00 +0000

hindsight is 20/20

Sun, 16 Apr 2017 23:05:00 +0000

chime
s3 outage
- AWS Summary
- Cloud downtime compared
google cloud next
DynamoDB TTL
AWS Organizations
- Creating new accounts (via esh)
mysql event streams w/kinesis
- postgres w/kafka

I have a rant

Mon, 27 Mar 2017 22:25:00 +0000

google acquires fabric from twitter
- https://fabric.io/blog/fabric-joins-google
firebase
I have a rant
- Donnie talks about MS Azure oauth client
State of Open Source Licensing (redmonk)
josh's scala react framework
amazon banana stand
- amazon temporary building donation

I was sleeping through the leap second

Sat, 14 Jan 2017 11:51:00 +0000

Welcome back / goals for 2017
Alexa corner
- 9 times as many echos sold this holiday
- 7k alexa skills, 7X increase in 7 months
- Alexa @ CES
- Alexa v. Google Home
  - Alexa: Amazon's Operating System (stratechery)
  - exponent podcast episode 099
Gone in 60 milliseconds
- zappa
- Mackenzie: AWS Lambda Infection Toolkit
Leap Second outage at CloudFlare
AWS pricing API / updates
React corner / react native

relearn how to walk

Sun, 1 Jan 2017 21:15:00 +0000

alexa christmas tree
alexa at wynn hotels in vegas
Lambda Edge
- amazon header bidding
- google pagespeed
more on stepfunctions
- error handling
- aws serverless java container
donnie misses java
- react native
  - exponent
How Much Does It Cost To Run A Serverless API on AWS? by Eric Hammond
experimenting with a job board around the podcast
- if you are hiring, get in touch!
get in touch if you want some engineers & coffee stickers!

cold reactions

Wed, 21 Dec 2016 10:52:00 +0000

step functions
- tim bray talk
- error handling in step functions
code build
porting an appengine app to lambda/api gateway
amazon lex
more on re:invent
- same old enterprise stories
- new services vs improvements
get your engineers & coffee stickers!
gauging interest in starting a job board: send us your job postings!

re:invent keynote day 2 reactions

Thu, 1 Dec 2016 17:20:00 +0000

We share our takes on new announcements from day 2 keynote and sessions.

re:invent keynote day 1 reactions

Wed, 30 Nov 2016 14:40:00 +0000

Fresh from the re:invent keynote day 1, we share our takes on some of the new announcements.

the pre:invent episode

Mon, 21 Nov 2016 18:30:00 +0000

re:invent coming soon
new cloudwatch features
re:invent sessions
SQS FIFO queues with exactly once processing
api gateway binary data support
trusted advisor automated actions
more looking forward to reinvent
- Automated Formal Reasoning about AWS Systems
re:invent predictions?

the post-election episode

Sat, 12 Nov 2016 16:15:00 +0000

election disappointment
aws re:invent 2016
- sold out
- reserved seating
- predictions?
  - go/python/lambda
  - swift web on ECS
working with google cloud appengine
serverless map/reduce
Nordstrom serverless-artillery

20 years plus Moore's law

Tue, 8 Nov 2016 13:45:00 +0000

now you're in the business of operating everything

Sun, 30 Oct 2016 21:11:00 +0000

new regions for google cloud
- MS Azure regions
kubernetes 1.4 release and capturing developer mindshare
- kubernetes the hard way
- docker swarm
google big query flat rate pricing
Google Customer Reliability Engineers
google speech API hints
open guide to AWS
- AWS answers
AWS week in review github

the documentation wasn't quite complete

Fri, 14 Oct 2016 12:16:00 +0000

Donnie's Account Kit app lambda project
- Facebook Account Kit
- CloudFormer / CloudFormation
- APIGateway CORS
- CloudFront Route53 AliasTarget
- CloudFormation YAML
- ACM / SES email forwarding
- CloudFormation scripting / Lambda CloudFormation extensions
  - trophosphere

feedback is a gift

Mon, 26 Sep 2016 11:02:00 +0000

welcome back
new API gateway features
cloudformation updates
- YAML vs. JSON for configuration
- douglas crockford on rationale for lack of comments in JSON
taking api documentation seriously
amazon photo printing service
- petapixel announcement
- lob.com (email, printing API)
new amazon dot v2
O'Reilly bots podcast
- DoNotPay bot
lambada Java/JAX-RS api gateway/lambda framework

that's life as a developer, i suppose

Tue, 30 Aug 2016 21:46:00 +0000

a million dollar idea right there

Tue, 16 Aug 2016 13:51:00 +0000

aws new york summit day 1
- after we recorded this, lots of cool stuff announced on day 2 that we will discuss next week!
aws serverless chat bot competition
slack bot fund
Gartner 2016 Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service
Tool for Building Interactive Adventure Games on Alexa

a lambda native approach

Fri, 5 Aug 2016 23:34:00 +0000

donnie's iot button
Alexa is the best
- short digression on alexa (we mostly mean 'echo' here!, and tap), bose soundlink
- sad state of bluetooth speakers in general :)
larry does his aws chalice homework
more on LambCI
- bootstrapping sbt
- docker lambda

we became our worst nightmare

Sun, 31 Jul 2016 20:44:00 +0000

Google Speech and Language APIs
AWS IoT Button

too many contentious things this episode

Sun, 24 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0000

there has to be some user facing differentiation, otherwise it's not exciting

Sun, 29 May 2016 13:08:00 +0000

apparently i'm competing directly with google now

Tue, 26 Apr 2016 10:08:00 +0000

jukedeck
retrospective episode
- give us feedback!
engineers and coffee in google play
Chicago AWS Summit
- EBS cold storage / throughput
- Managed platform update for Elastic Beanstalk
- S3 transfer acceleration and larger snowball
  - Acceleration speed comparison tool
  - "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway."
    - Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Computer Networks, 4th ed., p. 91
- Kinesis updates
- Cognito User Pools
  - Facebook Account Kit
- Device Farm Interactive Testing
Octocast (Larry's podcast hosting project)
- deploying lambda from sbt
Titanic: Machine Learning from Disaster | Kaggle
Stanford Machine Learning Course

podcast retrospective

Mon, 18 Apr 2016 10:08:00 +0000

We'd love for you to join in the retrospective, and provide any feedback you have on the show.

We've put together an anonymous survey to provide feedback.

Thanks for listening!

Our retrospective notes:

What went well
- Consistent recording and publishing
- Content has improved
- Interview w/Peter
- Downloads in last 30 days - 3700
- Learned a lot about podcasting
- Forced to keep up on the news a bit more detailed
What didn’t go well
- Interaction has dropped off
- Donnie’s “tick” - “totally”
- We didn’t build anything...
- We didn't Interview enough
What to change?
- Try to bring conversation to us / community
  - Come up with a plan
    - Chat room, live episode, twitter, e.g.
    - Collect emails on twitter?
- Get better at interviewing
  - Have more interviews
  - research/read how to give good interviews
- Build something
  - Follow up on chat/lambda, alexa
  - Take what we’re building and make it into episode content
- Market ourselves
  - Reach out to more podcasters? Tweet at folks? Get more distribution
  - Push the episodes to more podcasting apps - Look into distribuiton on Android
  - Ask folks to review us on itunes
Shoutouts?
- Peter Sankauskas
- Cloudcast guys
- Marc, Josh, Ryanne
- Johnna and Melissa!

I can talk to my lambda functions!?!?!

Sun, 10 Apr 2016 16:55:00 +0000

The inside story of how Amazon created Echo, the next billion-dollar business no one saw coming
Alexa Hardware
- Echo - $179.99
- Echo Dot - $89.99 (only available through Alexa)
- Amazon Tap - $129, portable
Alexa Skills Kit (ASK)
- Alexa Skills Quick Start
- Sample Code
  - alexa-skills-kit-js
    - Score Keeper
      - Declaring Intents
      - Custom Slot Type
  - alexa-skills-kit-java
- Standard Slot Types
- Alexa Fund
Alexa Voice Service (AVS)
- Alexa on a Raspberry Pi
hackster.io Alexa Skills contest

Special Cloudcast episode

Thu, 7 Apr 2016 16:37:00 +0000

The Cloudcast

it's nice to get out of our aws bubble a little bit

Thu, 31 Mar 2016 21:37:00 +0000

We come to our senses, bite the bullet, and move to 1-based episode counting (you did not miss an episode)
Google's Greene Hastens Cloud Expansion in Race With Amazon
- Google gets apple as a cloud customer
- Urs Hölzle, Google's 8th employee and tech guru, thinks the cloud could make more money than ads
Google competing against AWS based on Machine Learning / Deep Learning Chops
Google Stackdriver
The Cloudcast

if enough people ask for it

Mon, 21 Mar 2016 11:47:00 +0000

more datacenters than engineers

Tue, 15 Mar 2016 00:42:00 +0000

10 Years of AWS
- Ten Years in the AWS Cloud by Jeff Barr
- A Decade of Innovation by James Hamilton
- 10 Lessons from 10 Years of Amazon Web Services by Werner Vogels
the story of hod ancient blog post talking about our old internal EMR-like workflow service

it's always something

Sun, 6 Mar 2016 21:40:00 +0000

Will it Lambda?!?!?!
- lambda chat follow-up / long polling
- cool lambda use case: Rate based backlisting )
- Send us your crazy lambda projects: lambda@engineers.coffee
AWS Config Rules Repository
- github services repository
new recurring segment idea

it should be obvious at this point

Mon, 29 Feb 2016 16:57:00 +0000

Will it Lambda?!?!?!
- DNS Server
- Chat Server
- See also Dynamic Dashboard
- Send us your crazy lambda projects: lambda@engineers.coffee
Spotify moving their infrastructure to Google
- Spotify blog post
- Wired story
Big banks considering AWS

i feel like cloud has jumped the shark already

Sun, 21 Feb 2016 23:25:00 +0000

Startup Podcast, Reply All
Coffee & Engineers intro, topics, format, etc.
Parse shutdown
- Resources for Migrating Parse applications to AWS
Will it Lambda?!?!?!
- Send us your crazy lambda projects: lambda@engineers.coffee