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#116: AI Agents, MCP and the problems with AI benchmarks | ft. Matt Carey Apr 19, 2025

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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:

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

#115: Introducing LocalStack v4! Apr 02, 2025

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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:

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

#114: Best practices for building a multi-tenant system with Khawaja Shams Mar 12, 2025

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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:

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

#113: Why you need Knowledge Graphs for your AI chatbot | ft. Aniket Mitra Feb 05, 2025

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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.

#112: Better Developer Experience for Event-Driven Architectures | ft. Alex Bouchard, co-founder of Hookdeck Jan 29, 2025

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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.

#111 - EventCatalog Revolutionizes Governance in Event-Driven Architectures | ft. David Boyne Jan 17, 2025

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In this episode, I spoke with David Boyne, the creator of EventCatalog, to learn more about the most common challenges with Event-Driven Architectures and how EventCatalog can solve the governance problem - how events are versioned, schema'd, discovered and tested.
This episode includes a short demo of EventCatalog, if you want to see the demo in action, then check out the video version on YouTube here.
Links from the episode:

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

#109: Building serverless apps in PHP with Bref | ft Matthieu Napoli Oct 25, 2024

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Thank you to Momento for supporting this episode. Momento's real-time data platform empowers developers to build innovative products faster and more reliably than ever before. Visit gomomento.co/theburningmonk for more information.
In this episode, I spoke with Matthieu Napoli about the Bref framework for developing serverless applications in PHP - how it works, why PHP and how it compares with Laravel Vapor.
This episode includes a short demo of Bref, if you want to see the demo in action, then check out the video version on YouTube here.
Links from the episode:

Bref framework

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

#108: Lambda on Rust with James Eastham Sep 20, 2024

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Thank you to Hookdeck for sponsoring this episode. If you're looking to level-up your event-driven architecture, then check out their serverless event gateway at hookdeck.com/theburningmonk and help support this channel.
James Eastham is a developer advocate at Datadog and co-author of "Crafting Lambda Functions in Rust". In this episode, we dive into writing Lambda functions in Rust and why you should invest in learning Rust.
Links from the episode:

NSA whitepaper on memory safety
Julian Wood’s Lambda internals talk at re:Invent 2022
Jame's YouTube channel
Crafting Lambda Functions in Rust
Ep106 on middy with Luciano Mammino
Ep97 on LLRT (the superfast JavaScript runtime for 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.

#107: How to Have a Successful Cloud Career in 2024 | ft. Andrew Brown Aug 28, 2024

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Thank you to Momento for supporting this episode. Momento's real-time data platform empowers developers to build innovative products faster and more reliably than ever before. Visit gomomento.co/theburningmonk for more information.
I spoke with Andrew Brown, renowned educator in the cloud space, to get his take on how cloud learners can break into the cloud and forge a successful career.
Links from the episode:

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

#106: Rust with Lambda, easy-mode Rust & future of Middy | ft. Luciano Mammino Aug 14, 2024

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Thank you to Hookdeck for sponsoring this episode. If you're looking to level-up your event-driven architecture, then check out their serverless event gateway at hookdeck.com/theburningmonk and help support this channel.
AWS Serverless Hero Luciano Mammino shares the history of Middy, the popular middleware engine for AWS Lambda functions; why he's sold on writing Lambda functions in Rust and why you should too!
Links from the episode:

AWS Bites channel
Middy
How to sponsor Middy
Crafting Lambda Functions in Rust
Easy mode Rust
Using Node.js ES modules and top-level await in AWS Lambda
Using Middy with Typescript
Ep97 on LLRT (the superfast JavaScript runtime for 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

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