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The AWS Developers Podcast
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Things that matter for developers
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In-flight experience: a cloud inside the plane
In-flight entertainment now runs on a cloud. Not the one on the ground, a cloud inside the aircraft. A 300-watt onboard data center running Kubernetes, managed databases and observability, built to survive vibration, fire and electromagnetic interference. Then AI agents on top so airlines can…
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Is AWS Lambda still serverless?
Is AWS Lambda still serverless? With Managed Instances, MicroVMs, and Durable Functions, Lambda can now run workloads it was never designed for. AWS Serverless Hero Yan Cui explains what changed, what you give up, and why the core serverless promise still holds. Romain sits down with Yan Cui, AWS...
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Jev: is it just a smarter if-statement?
Is Jev just a smarter if-statement? That's the question everyone's asking about TypeSafe AI's new "System One" model. In this episode, we dig into what Jev actually is: a model that makes fast, typed decisions your code can use directly — and why it points to a bigger shift: stop defaulting to…
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Building Software Will Never Be The Same
Most developers say AI makes them more productive. Most companies say their teams aren't shipping faster. What's going on? In this special solo episode, Romain unpacks the data behind the "acceleration whiplash," walks through a four-level AI maturity framework built from hundreds of customer...
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Kiro, Strands Agents & MCP: 10 Updates You Missed
The MCP specification just went stateless. Clare Liguori — Senior Principal Engineer at AWS and core MCP maintainer — explains what changed, why it matters, and what it unlocks for agent developers building with Strands Agents and Kiro. In this episode, Romain sits down with Clare Liguori, Senior...
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Harness engineering: are you controlling your AI agents?
What happens when you strip the model from an agent? Everything left is the harness — and engineering that harness is the new discipline every AI builder needs to master. In this episode, Romain sits down with Mike Chambers, Senior Developer Advocate for Generative AI at AWS, fresh from speaking…
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How Prime Video's engineers manage agents, not code
Prime Video serves over 300 million monthly customers across 240+ territories and 8,000+ device types. Lilia Abaibourova leads the AI-native transformation there. Prime Video started early, adopting CodeWhisperer as soon as it became available in preview, progressing through Amazon Q Developer…
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Your AI platform isn't mature — here's what is
I keep hearing 'we're building an AI platform' from enterprises. Most are stitching together demos. Thomson Reuters has been doing AI for 30 years. I sat down with Laura Skylaki (VP AI Engineering, Thomson Reuters) at AWS Summit London — and the gap between what they're doing vs. what most...
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The Delivery Gap: Why 96% of Your AI Code Is Waste
Brenn reached out via LinkedIn to share his experience with AI-driven software development and his new book, The Delivery Gap. Romain read a copy during a business trip and found it deeply aligned with how he guides customers through their AI transformation — and discovered a few new angles worth...
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What are MCP apps and why should you care?
Most MCP tools today return text. But what if your agent could render a chart, a form, or a full dashboard right inside the chat? That's what MCP apps do — and they're already live on ChatGPT, Claude, and Amazon Quick. Romain sits down with Luigi Pederzani, co-founder of Manufact (the company...
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5 Lessons Running AI Agents in Production
John Sexton and Aaron Tummon from Genesys join the show to share hard-won lessons from building and operating Cloud Copilot — an agentic AI layer serving 2 million users across 21+ AWS regions. Genesys powers customer experience for brands like Virgin Atlantic, Vodafone, and HSBC, and their…
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AWS DevOps Agent: Can Your Pipeline Keep Up with AI?
Tipu Qureshi — Senior Principal Engineer at AWS — joins the show fresh from the AWS Summit NYC 2026 announcements to break down how DevOps Agent is changing the way teams handle operations and release management. After 14 years across EC2, Elastic Load Balancing, AWS Support, and Networking, Tipu...
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KiroGraph: How a Local Code Graph Saves 80% of Your AI Tokens
Davide de Sio built KiroGraph as a personal side project to stop his AI agent from burning through credits just searching files. It turned into a community-driven, open-source MCP server that gives Kiro (and other AI agents) a semantic map of your codebase — reducing token usage by up to 80%. We...
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Cutting Through the AI Developer Hype
An honest, no-filter conversation about where developers actually stand with AI today. Warren Parad — CTO at Authress, AWS Community Builder, and host of Adventures in DevOps — brings a contrarian 'LLM realist' perspective grounded in daily use, while Romain nuances with enterprise customer...
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Why Your Agent Evaluations Will Fail You (and How to Fix Them Before Production)
Anthropic deprecated Sonnet 3.5. Some of Xelix's pipelines migrated smoothly. Others broke — and customers noticed within hours. What separated the two? Evaluation. Paul Solomon and James Price Farr have spent 5+ years building AI systems that process millions of invoices for enterprise…
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5 Quality Gates That Let You Ship 250% Faster with AI Coding Agents
How do you give 120+ engineers AI coding agents — and NOT break production? Ryan Cormack, Principal Engineer at Motorway and AWS Community Builder (recognized as a Renaissance Developer by Werner Vogels), shares the exact system his team uses to ship 250% more deployments while keeping quality...
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Dark Factories: Why Your AI Coding Setup Is Already Outdated
You're using Copilot. Maybe you've tried Cursor or Claude Code. But what if that's already the tail end of the AI wave? In this episode, Romain sits down with Christian Weichel, CTO and co-founder of Ona (formerly Gitpod), to explore 'dark factories' — autonomous AI agents that pick up work…
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LLM-as-a-Judge, Quotation Fidelity, and A/B Testing Models: AI Publishing at Scale
What happens when a data scientist builds a generative AI proof of concept — and it scales to 700,000 articles and 4 billion page views? Recorded live at AWS Summit London, Romain is joined by Lewis James, Senior Data Scientist at Reach PLC — the UK's largest commercial publisher with over 120...
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AI Agents, Friction, and the Future of Developer Experience
AI agents are transforming how we write, test, and ship software — but are they actually improving the developer experience? Recorded live at AWS Summit London, Romain is joined by Tomasz Ptak — AWS AI Hero and Senior Engineer at Duco — for a candid conversation about developer experience…
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The Evolution of Microservices: Agents, Monoliths, and the Patterns That Never Die
Recorded live at AWS Summit London, Matheus Guimaraes — Senior Developer Advocate at AWS and microservices specialist with over 25 years in tech — joins Romain to explore how agentic AI is reshaping the way we think about distributed systems architecture. From Martin Fowler's 2014 definition to...
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How Can AI Agents Cut Support Resolution Time by 95%?
CyberArk's support team was drowning in logs. With 40+ products across SaaS and self-hosted environments, each generating logs in different formats, support engineers were spending days just preparing data before they could even start investigating a customer issue. Complex cases took up to 15…
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Spec-Driven Development and the AI Unified Process — with Simon Martinelli
Simon Martinelli is a Java Champion, Vaadin Champion, and Oracle ACE Pro with over three decades of experience building enterprise software. In this episode, he introduces the AI Unified Process (AIUP) — a methodology he created that combines the rigor of the Rational Unified Process with modern...
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Neurosymbolic AI: Combining GenAI with Mathematical Proof — with Danilo Poccia
What if you could combine the creative power of generative AI with the mathematical certainty of formal verification? In this episode, Danilo Poccia — Principal Developer Advocate at AWS — breaks down automated reasoning, a field of AI that has been quietly powering critical AWS services for…
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Agent-Native Serverless Development with Shridhar Pandey
In this episode, we sit down with Shridhar Pandey, Principal Product Manager on AWS Serverless Compute, to explore how the serverless team is pioneering agent-native development. Shridhar walks us through a remarkable March 2026 where the team shipped three major capabilities in just three weeks…
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The Hard Lessons of Cloud Migration: inDrive's Path from Monolith to Microservices
Join us for a fascinating conversation with Alexander 'Sasha' Lisachenko (Software Architect) and Artem Gab (Senior Engineering Manager) from inDrive, one of the global leaders in mobility operating in 48 countries and processing over 8 million rides per day. Sasha and Artem take us through their...
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Spring AI and AgentCore: Building Enterprise AI Agents in Java
It's a milestone — episode 200! And to mark the occasion, we're doing something we've never done before: hosting two guests at the same time. James Ward (Principal Developer Advocate at AWS) and Josh Long (Spring Developer Advocate at Broadcom, Java Champion, and host of 'A Bootiful Podcast')…
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AWS Hero Linda Mohamed: Juggling Cloud, Community & Agentic AI
Some guests make you want to close your laptop and go build something. Linda Mohamed is one of them. In this episode, Romain sits down with Linda — AWS Community Hero, User Group Leader, Chairwoman of the AWS Community DACH Association, and independent cloud consultant based in Vienna. Linda...
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Evolving Lambda: from ephemeral compute to durable execution
In this episode, Romain sits down with Michael Gasch, Product Manager at AWS for Lambda Durable Functions, to explore one of the most exciting launches in the Serverless space in recent years. Michael shares the full story: from the early days of Lambda and the evolution of the serverless…
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Your AI Agent Can't Multitask — Here's How to Fix It
Mike Chambers is back — calling in from the other side of the globe — and he brought a lot to unpack. We pick up threads from our first conversation and follow them into genuinely exciting (and occasionally mind-bending) territory. We start with OpenClaw, the open-source agentic framework that…
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Chris Miller on AI Coding, Multi-Agent Systems, and the Silicon Valley Vibe
Join us for an engaging conversation with Chris Miller, an AWS Hero since 2021 and AI Software Engineer at Workato. Chris shares his journey from accidentally winning a DeepRacer competition to becoming a community leader in the San Francisco Bay Area. We dive deep into the realities of…
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From MCP to Multi-Agents: The Evolution of Agentic AI (and What's Next)
Mike Chambers reflects on 2025 as 'the year of agents' - though not quite in the way he predicted. From MCP's rocky launch to the rise of AI coding assistants, Mike shares hard-won lessons about what actually worked in production, the security challenges developers face, and why the future might…
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Spec-Driven Development in Practice: A AWS Hero Journey
Christian, AWS Hero and Solution Architect at Bundesliga, shares his journey and hard-won lessons from adopting spec-driven development with AI coding assistants at enterprise scale. Learn when to use specs vs vibe coding, how to build effective steering documents, and practical strategies for...
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Native Speed, Modern Safety: Swift for Backend Development
Join us as we explore Swift beyond iOS with Sebastien Stormacq, AWS Developer Advocate and Swift specialist. Discover why Swift is becoming a compelling choice for server-side development, offering native compilation, memory safety without garbage collection, and modern concurrency features that...
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Local Unit Testing for Step Functions
Join us as we dive into the new local unit testing capabilities for AWS Step Functions with Jas Narula, Product Manager from the Step Functions team. We explore how developers can now test their workflows locally using the enhanced Test State API, moving beyond the limitations of the discontinued...
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Building AWS Builder Center: Architecture Lessons from a Large-Scale Community Platform
In this episode, we dive deep into AWS Builder Center, the new community platform designed to consolidate all AWS developer resources into one central hub. Roopal Jain, Software Development Engineer on the Builder Center team, explains how this platform brings together previously scattered AWS...
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Amazon ECS Managed Instances for containerized applications
In this episode, we dive deep into Amazon ECS Managed Instances, a new compute option that bridges the gap between EC2 and Fargate for container deployments. Our guest Olly Pomeroy, AWS Container Specialist, explains how this new offering provides the flexibility of EC2 with the managed…
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How to not worry about networking on AWS?
In this follow-up episode of the AWS Developers Podcast, we continue the conversation with Alex Huides, Principal Network Specialist Solutions Architect at AWS, focusing on Amazon VPC Lattice. We explore how developers can simplify networking concerns while maintaining robust connectivity between...
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Why developers should care about cloud networking
In this episode of the AWS Developers Podcast, we dive deep into the world of networking from a developer's perspective. Join host Sebastien Stormacq and guest Alex Huides, Principal Network Specialist Solutions Architect at AWS, as they explore why developers should care about networking in the...
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AgentCore Identity
In this episode of the AWS Developers Podcast, we dive deep into Amazon Bedrock Agent Core Identity with Abram Douglas. Learn how this new service helps developers manage identities and authentication flows for AI agents at scale. Discover the seven core components of Agent Core and understand…
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Building AI Agents with the Strands SDK
In this episode of the AWS Developers Podcast, we dive deep into Strands Agents, AWS's open-source framework for building AI agents. Our guest Arron Bailiss, Principal Engineer and Tech Lead for Strands, explains how this framework evolved from an internal AWS tool to a developer-friendly,...
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Scaling E-commerce with Serverless: The moonpig.com Story
In this episode, we dive deep into Moonpig's migration journey from an on-premise ASP.NET monolithic application to a fully serverless architecture on AWS. Richard Pearson, Head of Engineering, and Alexis Lowe, Principal Engineer at Moonpig, share their experience transforming a 25-year-old...
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Deploying MCP servers on Lambda
Update Oct 25.: After we recorded this episode (July 10th 2025), AWS launched Amazon Bedrock AgentCore (that went in preview on July 16th, 2025) and generally available since Oct. 13rd, 2025. AgentCore is the recommanded solution to deploy your MCP agents on AWS. We keep this episode available as…
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When AI meets biology: Using LLM to find natural alternatives to antibiotics
In this episode, we explore how Phagos, a French biotech startup, combines biology, data science, and cloud computing to combat antimicrobial resistance. Their innovative approach uses bacteriophages - natural predators of bacteria - as an alternative to antibiotics. We discuss how they leverage...
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From Monolith to Microservices: How Zilch Scaled a Modern Payment Platform
Join us for an insightful conversation with Mike Davis, Engineering Manager, and Rob Nelson, VP of Engineering at Zilch, a leading UK-based buy now pay later platform. Discover how this cloud fintech scaled from a monolithic architecture to a sophisticated microservices ecosystem serving 5…
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Lambda Runtimes deep dive: Behind the serverless curtain
In this episode, we dive deep into AWS Lambda runtime environments with Maxime David, Software Development Engineer in the Lambda runtime team. Discover how AWS manages and updates the foundation of serverless computing, ensuring millions of functions continue to run smoothly while being patched...
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Gaming Development Demystified
In this episode, we dive deep into the world of game development with our special guest Matheus, a former game developer turned AWS Developer Advocate. We explore why and how to get started in game development, discussing everything from game engines to the technical challenges of creating games....
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The future of fast builds: inside Depot's cloud-native CI/CD platform
In this episode, Jacob Gillespie, co-founder and CTO of Depot, reveals how they're changing CI/CD by making builds dramatically faster. Learn how Depot achieves up to 40x speed improvements through innovative use of AWS services, sophisticated caching mechanisms, and custom low-level…
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Empowering Women in Tech: A Perspective from India
This episode of the AWS Developers Podcast focuses on the empowerment of women in technology, particularly in India. The conversation highlights personal journeys of women in tech, the challenges they face, the importance of mentorship, and the need to break stereotypes surrounding women in the...
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Vibe Coding — The future of AI-assisted development?
Join us for an exciting episode recorded live from AWS Summit India in Bangalore, where we dive deep into 'Vibe Coding' with Amazon Q. Our special guest Omshree, an AWS Community Builder and Cloud Engineer, shares her journey of transforming tedious coding tasks into enjoyable experiences using...
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Lambda Extensions - the unsung hero for observability
In this episode recorded live from AWS Summit Bangalore, we dive deep into AWS Lambda Extensions and Observability with Jones, a serverless hero and developer advocate at New Relic. Learn about the critical role of observability in serverless architectures, how Lambda Extensions work as sidecars…
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