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Season 2 Episode 8 - Community Builders, Portable Lambdas and K8s in Space

In episode 8 of season 2, Karl and Jon discuss becoming AWS Community Builders, EKS on Snowball Edge, detecting Solar Panel damage with Amazon Rekognition, using porting advisor for Graviton, maintaining Code Quality with Amazon Code Catalyst and developing portal Lamba functions. Karl also channels his inner Muppet while waffling about Kubernetes in space.
Here are links to the articles discussed:
Amazon Releases Elastic Kubernetes Service for Snowball Edge via Matt Campbell on InfoQ
Detecting solar panel damage with Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels via Ramakant Joshi, Shekar Tippur, and Anand Iyer on Amazon Web Services (AWS) blog
Using Porting Advisor for Graviton via Sheila Busser on Amazon Web Services (AWS) blog
Maintaining Code Quality with Amazon CodeCatalyst Reports via Imtranur Rahman and Wasay Mabood on Amazon Web Services (AWS) blog
Developing portable AWS Lambda functions via Pascal Vogel on Amazon Web Services blog

Season 2 Episode 7 - Step functions, Scalability & Open source slip up

In episode 7 season 2, Karl & Jon discuss scaling, step functions, creating custom health checks, a blog by Jeff Barr, and why AWS is all about sustainable open source.
Here are the links to the topics discussed:
Scaling an ASG using target tracking with a dynamic SQS target via Sheila Busser on Amazon Web Services (AWS) blog
Implementing reactive progress tracking for AWS Step Functions via Benjamin Smith on Amazon Web Services (AWS) blog
How to create custom health checks for your Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Fleet via Sheila Busser on Amazon Web Services (AWS) blog
New Graviton3-Based General Purpose (m7g) and Memory-Optimized (r7g) Amazon EC2 Instances via Jeff Barr on Amazon Web Services (AWS) blog
AWS: Why We Support Sustainable Open Source via David Nalley on The New Stack

Season 2 Episode 6 - Buckets, Bushes and Bushy Tails

In Episode 6, Karl & Jon discuss S3 buckets - once more, visualizing VPC resources, scaling PHP applications, CloudWatch-ing, CloudTrail-ing, and Jon's bush pruning exploits.
Here are the links to the articles:
Amazon S3 to apply security best practices for all new buckets on Help Net Security
New – Visualize Your VPC Resources from Amazon VPC Creation Experience via Channy Yun on Amazon Web Services (AWS) blog
Scaling PHP Applications on AWS via Adriano Cataluddi on the Logicata blog
Using Amazon CloudWatch metrics to monitor time to expiration for Reserved Instances | Amazon Web Services via Greg Gooden on Amazon Web Services blog
AWS Patches Undocumented APIs Bypassing CloudTrail Event Logging via Renato Losio on InfoQ

Season 2 Episode 5 - Databases, Chat GPT and Dry 23

In Episode 5, Karl & Jon discuss AWS Database innovations, deployment pipeline reference architectures, Amazon Managed Grafana, Serverless Development and Chat GPT.  Karl also goes off on a tangent about his bid to be alcohol-free for 2023!
Here are the articles that inspired this week's episode:
AWS doubles down on innovations that redefine the database management experience, via Elizabeth Solomon on The Register
New – Deployment Pipelines Reference Architecture and Reference Implementations via Sebastien Stormacq on the AWS News Blog
Monitoring Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora using Amazon Managed Grafana via Elamaran Shanmugam, Munish Dabra, Ravi Mathur, and Shankar Rajagopalan on the AWS Cloud Operations & Migrations blog
The Risks of Moving Too Quickly with Serverless Development, via Allen Helton on dev.to
AWS CTO Slams ChatGPT: ‘Not Concerned About The Truth’, via Mark Haranas on CRN

Season 2 Episode3 - Cloud Costs, Fraud & Laundry

In Episode 3,Karl & Jon discuss SAM & cloudformation linting, secure CI/CD practices using AWS tools, cost visualisation using AWS managed Grafana, a shocking AWS bill, AWS's slowing growth, and a bit of plumbing.
Here are links to the articles discussed:
01: 17 - Validate AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) templates with CloudFormation Linter to speed up development via Amazon Web Services (AWS) news
05:00 - Setting up a secure CI/CD pipeline in a private Amazon Virtual Private Cloud with no public internet access via MJ Kubba on Amazon Web Services blog
13:13 - Visualize and gain insights into your AWS cost and usage with Amazon Managed Grafana via Munish Dabra and Chris Strzelczyk on Amazon Web Services blog
18:07 - It Happened to Me: How I Suddenly Owed AWS $13,000 via Jessica Wachtel on The New Stack
26:06 - Oh dear, AWS. Cloud growth slowing as customers get a dose of cost reality via Lindsay Clark on The Register

Season 2 Episode 2 - Serverless, Zero Trust & Rice Cookers

In episode 2 of our second season, Karl & Jon discuss Cloud Observability, ECS automated rollbacks, Step Functions Distributed Maps, Lambda concurrency, zero trust access to AWS and rice cookers.
Here are the links to the topics discussed:
01:35 Zero Trust Access to Corporate Applications with AWS Verified Access via Nsikan Essien on InfoQ
08:00 Amazon ECS Adds Automated Rollbacks via Matthew Campbell on InfoQ
12:00 AWS Introduces Step Functions Distributed Map for Large-Scale Parallel Data Processing via Renato Losio on InfoQ
16:56 Introducing maximum concurrency of AWS Lambda functions when using Amazon SQS as an event source via Julian Wood on Amazon Web Services (AWS) blog
23:15 Why cloud observability will be critical in 2023 on VentureBeat

Season 2 Episode 1 - O11Y, ECP & TLA’s

In the first episode of season 2 Karl & Jon discuss S3's new default encryption, CI/CD with GitLab and EKS Graviton runners, CloudWatch, Serverless observability, go off the deep end ranting about what DevOps actually is, and talk about shredding Vespa's.
 
Articles discussed:
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-s3-encrypts-new-objects-by-default/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=logicata_aws_weekly_news_roundup&utm_term=2023-01-06
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/devops/unlock-the-power-of-ec2-graviton-with-gitlab-ci-cd-and-eks-runners/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=logicata_aws_weekly_news_roundup&utm_term=2023-01-06
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/mt/integrate-amazon-cloudwatch-alarms-with-amazon-cloudwatch-metrics-insights/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=logicata_aws_weekly_news_roundup&utm_term=2023-01-06
https://dev.to/aws-heroes/serverless-in-2023-a-shift-in-focus-30gp?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=logicata_aws_weekly_news_roundup&utm_term=2023-01-06
https://devops.com/why-sres-are-critical-to-devops/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=logicata_aws_weekly_news_roundup&utm_term=2023-01-06
 

Episode 11 - Pipelines, Rain, & Leaky Buckets

In Episode 11, Karl and Jon discuss the weather (again), troubleshooting networking connectivity, CI/CD, cost optimisations and a new feature to reduce the leakiness of S3 buckets.
Here are links to the articles:
Configuration driven dynamic multi-account CI/CD solution on AWS via Anshul Saxena and Libin Roy on Amazon Web Services blog
Improved Supply Chain Visibility and Actionable Insights with AWS Supply Chain via Steef-Jan Wiggers on InfoQ
How to use AWS Well-Architected with AWS Trusted Advisor to achieve data-driven cost optimization via Jun-Tin Yeh and Stephen Salim on Amazon Web Services (AWS) blog
Troubleshoot network connectivity to Amazon RDS databases using VPC Reachability Analyzer via Baji Shaik and Sudip Acharya on Amazon Web Services (AWS) blog
AWS strains to make Simple Storage Service not so simple to screw up via Thomas Claburn on The Register
 

Episode 10 - Snowed in Serverless Special

In Episode 10 Jon & Karl discuss Blue/Green deployments, low code Serverless development, EventBridge pipes, personal growth from AWS and complain about the cold weather.
Here's the list of articles discussed:
AWS Announces Blue/Green Deployments for MySQL on Aurora and RDS via Renato Losio on InfoQ
AWS launches Application Composer, a low-code tool for building serverless apps via Frederic Lardinois on TechCrunch
Enhanced Serverless Development with Terraform and AWS SAM via Nsikan Essien on InfoQ
Amazon EventBridge Pipes Supports Point-to-Point Integrations between Event Producers and Consumers via Steef-Jan Wiggers on InfoQ
Securing Lambda Function URLs using Amazon Cognito, Amazon CloudFront and AWS WAF via Marcia Villalba on Amazon Web Services (AWS) blog

Episode 9 - re:Invent Recap & Rehydration

In Episode 9 Jon & Karl discuss Water Positivity, AWS Lambda Vulnerability scanning & recap some of the announcements from Re:Invent 2022. Jon also goes on about delivery vans turning right, and Karl side-steps the weekend's football result.
 
Here's the links to the articles discussed:
AWS Plans to be Water Positive by 2030 via Alexandra Garfinkle on Yahoo Finance
Amazon Inspector now scans AWS Lambda functions for vulnerabilities via Marcia Villabla on Amazon Web Services Blog
Adam Selipsky at Re:Invent 2022 via Karl Robinson on Logicata Blog