Real World Serverless with theburningmonk

In this episode, I spoke with Matt Carey, founding AI engineer at StackOne, founder of AI Demo Days and member of the OpenUK AI Advisory Board.
Everyone needs a friend who works in AI to help them filter the AI news and get the signals from the noise. Matt is that friend for me!
We discussed AI agents, MCP, and the challenges of AI benchmarks, which help explain the disconnect between the benchmark results and the anecdotal experiences of AI users, such as myself.
Links from the episode:
Google's whitepaper on AI agents
Anthropic Building Effective AI Agents
Simon Willison on X
Thorsten Ball's Joy & Curiosity newsletter
AI Demo Days
MCP has a prompt injection problem

Opening theme song:
Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

In this episode, I spoke with Waldemar Hummer, founder and CTO of LocalStack. We discussed what's new in the latest version of LocalStack and highlighted some of the most interesting additions.

One particular highlight for me is the ability to visualise and troubleshoot event-driven architectures end-to-end and quickly identify problems such as missing IAM permission.

Lots of exciting new features in LocalStack v4!
This episode include a live demo of LocalStack v4. To get the most from the demo, please watch the episode on YouTube here.

Links from the episode:
My conversation with Waldemar after LocalStack v3
LocalStack v4 announcement
My blog post on when to use Step Functions vs running everything in Lambda

Opening theme song:
Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

In this episode, I spoke with Khawaja Shams, co-founder of Momento, about cell-based architectures and how it allows Momento to scale to millions of transactions per second (TPS) while maintaining a healthy blast radius within their multi-tenant system.

Links from the episode:
Momento
Khawaja on X
Khawaja on LinkedIn
Believe In Serverless community

Opening theme song:
Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.

In this episode, I spoke with Aniket Mitra, founder of CW, to learn more about knowledge graphs and how they are making a comeback in the era of AI and LLMs.

Opening theme song:
Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.

In this episode, I spoke with Alex Bouchard, co-founder and CTO of Hookdeck, to learn more about Hookdeck and how it differs from Amazon EventBridge.

This episode contains a live demo of Hookdeck, for the best viewing experience, please watch the recording on YouTube here.

Alex gave me a demo of Hookdeck, which has some nice features for addressing common developer experience problems with EventBridge. For example:
Deliver events to local targets
Audit history of event deliveries
Issues page of failed event deliveries
Replay failed events

Links from the episode:
 Check out Hookdeck

Opening theme song:
Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.