I left in a bit more of the pre-show than usual, let me know if you enjoyed that part. 




AWS Serverless hero (man that's a cool title 🤩), Yan Cui comes on to share his journey with Serverless and take on Microservices done right. We also discuss some interesting articles such as the Amazon Prime Video migration and the Hey.com article: Why we're leaving the cloud .




Enjoy! 🎙




Connect with Yan Cui:


https://www.linkedin.com/in/theburningmonk


 https://twitter.com/theburningmonk


https://theburningmonk.com 




Full episode on YouTube ▶️


https://youtu.be/TDwp4lVHFtU


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OUTLINE:


00:00:00 - Intro


00:00:24 - Patrick can't handle cilantro


00:01:06 - Yan's food experience in Venice


00:03:36 - Food culture in China


00:04:50 - Best burger joint in Amsterdam


00:07:11 - Yan misses lamb meals in The Netherlands


00:09:32 - Increased food and energy prices


00:12:09 - Yan is an AWS Serverless Hero


00:16:50 - The AWS re:Invent experience


00:19:01 - Yan's experience with serverless technologies


00:22:47 - Building a social network


00:28:52 - The Prime Video switch from serverless to EC2 and ECS


00:32:13 - Vendor lock-in


00:34:27 - Different types of throughput and spiky traffic


00:39:52 - Shoutout to Ariel


00:42:08 - HEY moving off the cloud


00:44:24 - Misconceptions about micro services


00:48:27 - Starting with micro services


00:52:15 - Experience is what drives people


00:52:59 - Explaining the context


00:56:09 - Cascading failures

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