Yan Cui
@theburningmonk.com
I help engineers build better software faster with serverless | AWS Serverless Hero
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TIL web neural network API, an emerging web standard for building in-browser AI apps that lets you use those new NPUs in phones and laptops.
w3.org/TR/webnn
w3.org/TR/webnn
July 10, 2025 at 10:38 AM
TIL web neural network API, an emerging web standard for building in-browser AI apps that lets you use those new NPUs in phones and laptops.
w3.org/TR/webnn
w3.org/TR/webnn
Reposted by Yan Cui
I have not paid a ton of attention to the uproar over RTO policies, bc we are all in on distributed teams and not going back.
My impression (via social media) has been that these were shadow layoffs.
Last month I asked an investor why they are doing RTO. He said: "Retention, mostly. And morale."
My impression (via social media) has been that these were shadow layoffs.
Last month I asked an investor why they are doing RTO. He said: "Retention, mostly. And morale."
May 26, 2025 at 11:13 PM
I have not paid a ton of attention to the uproar over RTO policies, bc we are all in on distributed teams and not going back.
My impression (via social media) has been that these were shadow layoffs.
Last month I asked an investor why they are doing RTO. He said: "Retention, mostly. And morale."
My impression (via social media) has been that these were shadow layoffs.
Last month I asked an investor why they are doing RTO. He said: "Retention, mostly. And morale."
I've been diving into Neon and I like what I see!
Here's how you can use Neon with ephemeral environments to simplify serverless development.
theburningmonk.com/2025/04/how-...
Here's how you can use Neon with ephemeral environments to simplify serverless development.
theburningmonk.com/2025/04/how-...
How to use Neon and ephemeral environments to simplify serverless development
Understand the value of ephemeral environments, and how you can use Neon and ephemeral environments to simplify serverless development
theburningmonk.com
May 2, 2025 at 9:50 PM
I've been diving into Neon and I like what I see!
Here's how you can use Neon with ephemeral environments to simplify serverless development.
theburningmonk.com/2025/04/how-...
Here's how you can use Neon with ephemeral environments to simplify serverless development.
theburningmonk.com/2025/04/how-...
Saying "coding is dead" is missing the point. Coding isn’t just about producing code, it’s also a way of thinking.
It teaches us structure, systems thinking, abstractions and problem decomposition.
If you don’t learn those skills, AI won’t make you productive, it’ll make you dependent.
It teaches us structure, systems thinking, abstractions and problem decomposition.
If you don’t learn those skills, AI won’t make you productive, it’ll make you dependent.
April 11, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Saying "coding is dead" is missing the point. Coding isn’t just about producing code, it’s also a way of thinking.
It teaches us structure, systems thinking, abstractions and problem decomposition.
If you don’t learn those skills, AI won’t make you productive, it’ll make you dependent.
It teaches us structure, systems thinking, abstractions and problem decomposition.
If you don’t learn those skills, AI won’t make you productive, it’ll make you dependent.
I finally binged The Orville, it was time well spent, especially seasons 2 and 3!
So high on Star Trek nostalgia right now 😅
So high on Star Trek nostalgia right now 😅
April 7, 2025 at 6:51 PM
I finally binged The Orville, it was time well spent, especially seasons 2 and 3!
So high on Star Trek nostalgia right now 😅
So high on Star Trek nostalgia right now 😅
I recently spoke with Waldemar Hummer to find out what's new in LocalStack v4 - e.g. visualize and trace event-driven arch end-to-end, or create snapshots of your system.
It's crazy how fast they are innovating!
youtu.be/vVUBnXD6eto
It's crazy how fast they are innovating!
youtu.be/vVUBnXD6eto
Introducing LocalStack v4
YouTube video by Master AWS with Yan
youtu.be
April 2, 2025 at 7:09 PM
I recently spoke with Waldemar Hummer to find out what's new in LocalStack v4 - e.g. visualize and trace event-driven arch end-to-end, or create snapshots of your system.
It's crazy how fast they are innovating!
youtu.be/vVUBnXD6eto
It's crazy how fast they are innovating!
youtu.be/vVUBnXD6eto
Through chaos experiments, the Lambda team reduced response time to an AZ outage by 90%! 🤯
March 27, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Through chaos experiments, the Lambda team reduced response time to an AZ outage by 90%! 🤯
"Lambdaliths have slower cold starts"
"Lambdaliths have fewer cold starts"
Both can be true, but neither is entirely correct. It depends on several factors.
In my new post, I explain these nuances so you can make a better choice.
theburningmonk.com/2025/03/the-...
"Lambdaliths have fewer cold starts"
Both can be true, but neither is entirely correct. It depends on several factors.
In my new post, I explain these nuances so you can make a better choice.
theburningmonk.com/2025/03/the-...
The pros and cons of Lambdalith
Learn about lambdalith and how it helps you build serverless APIs with AWS Lambda, as well as its pros and cons.
theburningmonk.com
March 27, 2025 at 12:23 AM
"Lambdaliths have slower cold starts"
"Lambdaliths have fewer cold starts"
Both can be true, but neither is entirely correct. It depends on several factors.
In my new post, I explain these nuances so you can make a better choice.
theburningmonk.com/2025/03/the-...
"Lambdaliths have fewer cold starts"
Both can be true, but neither is entirely correct. It depends on several factors.
In my new post, I explain these nuances so you can make a better choice.
theburningmonk.com/2025/03/the-...
I spoke with Khawajas Shams about building large-scale (think millions of TPS) multi-tenant systems.
We talked about pros & cons of cell-based architectures, how it reduces the blast radius, and techniques for building high-throughput systems e.g. core pinning
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jte...
We talked about pros & cons of cell-based architectures, how it reduces the blast radius, and techniques for building high-throughput systems e.g. core pinning
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jte...
How to Build a Multi-Tenant System (Best Practices)
YouTube video by Master AWS with Yan
www.youtube.com
March 12, 2025 at 7:23 AM
I spoke with Khawajas Shams about building large-scale (think millions of TPS) multi-tenant systems.
We talked about pros & cons of cell-based architectures, how it reduces the blast radius, and techniques for building high-throughput systems e.g. core pinning
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jte...
We talked about pros & cons of cell-based architectures, how it reduces the blast radius, and techniques for building high-throughput systems e.g. core pinning
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jte...
Nice to see a full house at the serverless days Manchester 💪
February 20, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Nice to see a full house at the serverless days Manchester 💪
Thank you to everyone who attended my talk at the Serverless London meetup last night 🙏
Here are my slides for those who couldn't make it.
You can try Evolua for free at evolua.io. We'd appreciate your feedback!
speakerdeck.com/theburningmo...
Here are my slides for those who couldn't make it.
You can try Evolua for free at evolua.io. We'd appreciate your feedback!
speakerdeck.com/theburningmo...
How we built an AI code reviewer with serverless and Bedrock
Slides for my talk at the Serverless London meetup on 12-Feb-2025
speakerdeck.com
February 13, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Thank you to everyone who attended my talk at the Serverless London meetup last night 🙏
Here are my slides for those who couldn't make it.
You can try Evolua for free at evolua.io. We'd appreciate your feedback!
speakerdeck.com/theburningmo...
Here are my slides for those who couldn't make it.
You can try Evolua for free at evolua.io. We'd appreciate your feedback!
speakerdeck.com/theburningmo...
New post: How we built an AI code reviewer with serverless and Bedrock
My biggest lesson learnt is that, at least for our use case, LLM is the easy part and there's still a lot of "app" in an "AI-powered app"!
My biggest lesson learnt is that, at least for our use case, LLM is the easy part and there's still a lot of "app" in an "AI-powered app"!
How we built an AI code reviewer with serverless and Bedrock
Explore the high-level architecture of Evolua, an AI code reviewer built with Bedrock and serverless technologies, and what we learnt
buff.ly
January 31, 2025 at 9:16 AM
New post: How we built an AI code reviewer with serverless and Bedrock
My biggest lesson learnt is that, at least for our use case, LLM is the easy part and there's still a lot of "app" in an "AI-powered app"!
My biggest lesson learnt is that, at least for our use case, LLM is the easy part and there's still a lot of "app" in an "AI-powered app"!
Wiz found a publicly accessible ClickHouse database linked to DeepSeek, completely open and unauthenticated, exposing sensitive data like chat history 🤦♂️
www.wiz.io/blog/wiz-res...
www.wiz.io/blog/wiz-res...
Wiz Research Uncovers Exposed DeepSeek Database Leaking Sensitive Information, Including Chat History | Wiz Blog
A publicly accessible database belonging to DeepSeek allowed full control over database operations, including the ability to access internal data. The exposure includes over a million lines of log str...
www.wiz.io
January 30, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Wiz found a publicly accessible ClickHouse database linked to DeepSeek, completely open and unauthenticated, exposing sensitive data like chat history 🤦♂️
www.wiz.io/blog/wiz-res...
www.wiz.io/blog/wiz-res...
I spoke with the co-founder of @hookdeck.com to find out what it can do, and it's impressive!
There is a lot of focus on DX for building Event-Driven Architecture, and EventBridge can learn a lot from them.
Have a look for yourself.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jmM...
There is a lot of focus on DX for building Event-Driven Architecture, and EventBridge can learn a lot from them.
Have a look for yourself.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jmM...
Hookdeck has built a better Developer Experience than EventBridge
YouTube video by Yan Cui
www.youtube.com
January 29, 2025 at 10:53 PM
I spoke with the co-founder of @hookdeck.com to find out what it can do, and it's impressive!
There is a lot of focus on DX for building Event-Driven Architecture, and EventBridge can learn a lot from them.
Have a look for yourself.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jmM...
There is a lot of focus on DX for building Event-Driven Architecture, and EventBridge can learn a lot from them.
Have a look for yourself.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jmM...
This is AWESOME!!
EventBridge now delivers events to cross-account targets directly without having to send them to the default bus in the target account first.
More details here:
aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wh...
EventBridge now delivers events to cross-account targets directly without having to send them to the default bus in the target account first.
More details here:
aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wh...
January 22, 2025 at 12:38 AM
This is AWESOME!!
EventBridge now delivers events to cross-account targets directly without having to send them to the default bus in the target account first.
More details here:
aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wh...
EventBridge now delivers events to cross-account targets directly without having to send them to the default bus in the target account first.
More details here:
aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wh...
Here's a mindmap of everything we'll cover in my 4-week boot camp starting on Monday.
Are we missing anything that one should know for running serverless workloads in production?
Detailed curriculum here: productionreadyserverless.com#curriculum
Are we missing anything that one should know for running serverless workloads in production?
Detailed curriculum here: productionreadyserverless.com#curriculum
January 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Here's a mindmap of everything we'll cover in my 4-week boot camp starting on Monday.
Are we missing anything that one should know for running serverless workloads in production?
Detailed curriculum here: productionreadyserverless.com#curriculum
Are we missing anything that one should know for running serverless workloads in production?
Detailed curriculum here: productionreadyserverless.com#curriculum
We're back with a new episode of real-world serverless.
I spoke with @boyney123.bsky.social about the hard parts of building event-driven architectures and how EventCatalog can help with event documentation, discovery, versioning, visualization and testing.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVl7...
I spoke with @boyney123.bsky.social about the hard parts of building event-driven architectures and how EventCatalog can help with event documentation, discovery, versioning, visualization and testing.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVl7...
EventCatalog REVOLUTIONIZES Governance in Event-Driven Architectures | ft. David Boyne
YouTube video by Yan Cui
www.youtube.com
January 17, 2025 at 3:10 PM
We're back with a new episode of real-world serverless.
I spoke with @boyney123.bsky.social about the hard parts of building event-driven architectures and how EventCatalog can help with event documentation, discovery, versioning, visualization and testing.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVl7...
I spoke with @boyney123.bsky.social about the hard parts of building event-driven architectures and how EventCatalog can help with event documentation, discovery, versioning, visualization and testing.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVl7...
oh, this is a toughie...
January 10, 2025 at 9:53 PM
oh, this is a toughie...
Stop wasting money on CORS preflight requests.
Here's a quick tip for reducing API Gateway costs. 👇
Here's a quick tip for reducing API Gateway costs. 👇
January 10, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Stop wasting money on CORS preflight requests.
Here's a quick tip for reducing API Gateway costs. 👇
Here's a quick tip for reducing API Gateway costs. 👇
Reposted by Yan Cui
Confessions of a Big Tech and startups recruiter: with Blake Stockman. Blake has been a tech recruiter for 12 years, working at Google, Meta, Uber, Flexport, Y Combinator and startups.
Full episode:
• Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6sA6...
• YouTube: youtu.be/d7GsnaQYZ68
(cont'd)
Full episode:
• Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6sA6...
• YouTube: youtu.be/d7GsnaQYZ68
(cont'd)
January 8, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Confessions of a Big Tech and startups recruiter: with Blake Stockman. Blake has been a tech recruiter for 12 years, working at Google, Meta, Uber, Flexport, Y Combinator and startups.
Full episode:
• Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6sA6...
• YouTube: youtu.be/d7GsnaQYZ68
(cont'd)
Full episode:
• Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6sA6...
• YouTube: youtu.be/d7GsnaQYZ68
(cont'd)
This is still my favourite answer to "What does a software architect do?"
Source: youtube.com/watch?v=FGKG...
Source: youtube.com/watch?v=FGKG...
January 9, 2025 at 7:42 AM
This is still my favourite answer to "What does a software architect do?"
Source: youtube.com/watch?v=FGKG...
Source: youtube.com/watch?v=FGKG...
Current status: working on Terraform track for
productionreadyserverless.com
✅ Set up TF project & serverless.tf
✅ Support multi-account
✅ REST APIs with API Gateway and Lambda
✅ Testing with ephemeral environments
⃣ Event-Driven Architectures
⃣ Observability & performance
productionreadyserverless.com
✅ Set up TF project & serverless.tf
✅ Support multi-account
✅ REST APIs with API Gateway and Lambda
✅ Testing with ephemeral environments
⃣ Event-Driven Architectures
⃣ Observability & performance
Production-Ready Serverless
Learn BEST PRACTICES for building production-ready serverless applications.
productionreadyserverless.com
January 6, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Current status: working on Terraform track for
productionreadyserverless.com
✅ Set up TF project & serverless.tf
✅ Support multi-account
✅ REST APIs with API Gateway and Lambda
✅ Testing with ephemeral environments
⃣ Event-Driven Architectures
⃣ Observability & performance
productionreadyserverless.com
✅ Set up TF project & serverless.tf
✅ Support multi-account
✅ REST APIs with API Gateway and Lambda
✅ Testing with ephemeral environments
⃣ Event-Driven Architectures
⃣ Observability & performance
I'm speaking at AWS Community Day Romania this April, in the beautiful city of Timisoara. Hope to see you there 👋
Their CFP is open until February, so there's still time to submit your talk.
More details here: aws-community.ro
Their CFP is open until February, so there's still time to submit your talk.
More details here: aws-community.ro
January 5, 2025 at 10:44 AM
I'm speaking at AWS Community Day Romania this April, in the beautiful city of Timisoara. Hope to see you there 👋
Their CFP is open until February, so there's still time to submit your talk.
More details here: aws-community.ro
Their CFP is open until February, so there's still time to submit your talk.
More details here: aws-community.ro