Folding Air, Software Development With Damian Stanger: Damo's Podcast Highlights 2016 #48

I subscribe to many podcasts, you can see the list as it was in 2015 here: Developer podcasts v2 but I thought I would start to keep a weekly log of the episodes that I found interesting or useful in some way.

[AWS Podcast] Re:Invent 2016 Day 1-2 Announcements https://soundcloud.com/amazon-web-services-306355661/163-reinvent-2016-day-1-announcements https://soundcloud.com/amazon-web-services-306355661/164-reinvent-announcements-day-2

In this special episode Simon summarises all the announcements from Re:Invent 2016 - Day 1-2
Athena - search and analyse data in S3
Snowmobile - want to move a large amount of data?
personal health dashboard
DDoS mitigation
C# in AWS Lambda
AWS Batch
AWS CodeBuild - managed build service, only pay for the time you use
AWS X-Ray - analyse and debug production, distributed applications, such as those built using a microservices architecture
Lambda at edge

Microservices are a widely adopted pattern for breaking an application up into pieces that can be well-understood by the individual teams within the company
Microservices also allow these individual pieces to be scaled independently and updated in isolation
Rafael Schloming, who is building tools for microservices at Datawire

Josh has written the book 'the art of learning'
Considered a chess prodigy, Josh has perfected learning strategies that can be applied to anything, including his other loves of Brazilian jiu-jitsu (he's a black belt under phenom Marcelo Garcia) and Tai Chi push hands (he's a world champion)
These days, he spends his time coaching the world's top athletes and investors, working to revolutionize education, and tackling his new passion for paddle surfing

[O'Reilly Software architecture conference] Reactive architecture, design, and programming with Duncan Devore https://youtu.be/nZ1NucpEyxM

Everyone is talking about microservices, but there is more confusion than ever about what the promise of microservices really means and how to deliver on it. In this talk we will explore microservices from first principles, distilling their essence and putting them in their true context: distributed systems
Core traits of isolation, single responsibility, autonomy, exclusive state, asynchronous message-passing, and mobility
It is in between the microservices that the most interesting and rewarding, but also challenging, problems arise—here we are entering the world of distributed systems
Slicing an existing system into various REST services and wiring them back together again with synchronous protocols and traditional enterprise tools—designed for monolithic architectures—will set you up for failure
What we need in order to build resilient, elastic, and responsive microservices-based systems is to embrace microservices as systems and re-architect them from the ground up using reactive principles