Supper Club × 70,000 Serverless Functions with Kristi Perreault of Liberty Mutual

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 Mutual Liberty
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
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