July 15th, 2022 × #serverless#aws#developers
Supper Club × 70,000 Serverless Functions with Kristi Perreault of Liberty Mutual
Christy Perreault from Liberty Mutual discusses how they leverage serverless to support 5000 developers building customer-facing and internal apps. She covers Liberty Mutual's journey from on-prem to serverless, the costs savings and auto-scaling benefits, supporting developer preferences, and local development recommendations.
In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Kristi Perreault of Liberty Mutual about why they're using serverless functions, what languages they write in, managing security and montoring, and Kristi's journey into tech as a career.
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Show Notes
- 00:33 Welcome
- 03:24 Guest introduction
- @kperreault95
- Kristi Perreault on Dev.to
- Kristi Perreault AWS Hero
- Liberty Mutual
- 04:55 Developers at Liberty Mutual
- 07:05 What did you do before serverless functions?
- 08:36 Why are you using serverless functions?
- 12:39 What languages are you writing for serverless functions?
- 15:53 Sponsor: Hasura
- 17:22 Where does all the code live?
- 20:58 AWS CDK
- AWS CDK
- CDK Workshop
- 25:55 Sponsor: Lightstep Incident Response
- 27:07 How did you get into tech?
- 31:44 How do you organize all the functions?
- 33:51 How important is security?
- 35:23 What are IM roles?
- 36:16 How do you deal with spiking and monitoring?
- Datadog
- Splunk
- 41:20 Sponsor: Stackoverflow Podcast
- 42:02 Have you used Edge functions?
- 42:50 Supper Club Questions Off by None newsletter Ready Set Cloud
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- Real World Serverless Podcast
- Serverless Denver Group
- AWS Summits
- @ServerlessCO Kristi Perreault on Medium
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