AWS veteran shares the secret to succeeding at AWS & the inception story of Cognito

Ep #105 of the Real-World Serverless podcast

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David Behroozi, a 15-year Amazon veteran, tells us the inception story of Amazon Cognito and the cheat code for succeeding at AWS.

He also gave us a demo of Speedrun, his latest project since leaving Amazon. It turns your GitHub markdown into executable blocks of code that remember your context (e.g. AWS account and region) so your runbook can be executed right from the markdown.

Links from the episode:

David's LinkedIn profile   / david-behroozi  
David's Twitter profile https://x.com/rooToTheZ
Learn more about Speedrun https://speedrun.nobackspacecrew.com/...
David's blog https://speedrun.nobackspacecrew.com/...
How to Securely let Frontend Apps to Directly Access AWS services https://theburningmonk.com/2023/12/di...

Sections:

0:00 Coming up...
1:16 Sponsor message
1:29 Introduction
5:15 Inception story of Cognito
11:21 Most common use cases for Cognito
15:22 Sponsor message
17:55 David's favorite Cognito feature
20:23 Does anyone actually use Cognito Sync
22:26 Should you avoid using ID tokens
28:02 Secrets to succeeding at AWS
35:41 How to collect metrics for new features
40:14 What's the "welcome back, buddy" experience
45:24 Demo of Speedrun
1:15:15 Sponsor message

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