JSJ 330: AWS: Amplify with Nader Dabit

Published: Sept. 11, 2018, 10 a.m.

Panel:\xa0
- AJ O\u2019Neal
- Aimee Knight
- Joe Eames
Special Guests: http://naderdabit.me/#/ In this episode, the panel talks with programmer, Nader Dabit, who has been with Amazon\u2019s AWS for the past six months. They discuss the new innovations that Amazon is currently working on, and the exciting new projects that Nader gets to be involved with. Check out this episode to hear all the latest!Show Topics:1:45 \u2013 There are two main things that Nader works with. Check out this timestamp to see what they are.3:29 \u2013 AJ to Nader: Tell me more about manage cloud. I am not sure about https://aws.amazon.com/cognito/?ef_id=W5RTKgAAAUa7GPf1%3A20180908225434%3As&s_kwcid=AL%214422%213%21293649588890%21p%21%21g%21%21cognito&sc_campaign=acquisition_USsc_publisher%3Dgoogle&sc_category=Security&sc_channel=PS&sc_content=cognito_p&sc_country=US&sc_detail=cognito&sc_matchtype=p&sc_medium=ACQ-P%257CPS-GO%257CNon-Brand%257CDesktop%257CSU%257CSecurity%257CCognito%257CUS%257CEN%257CText&sc_segment=293649588890.3:56 \u2013 https://aws.amazon.com/cognito/?ef_id=W5RTKgAAAUa7GPf1%3A20180908225434%3As&s_kwcid=AL%214422%213%21293649588890%21p%21%21g%21%21cognito&sc_campaign=acquisition_USsc_publisher%3Dgoogle&sc_category=Security&sc_channel=PS&sc_content=cognito_p&sc_country=US&sc_detail=cognito&sc_matchtype=p&sc_medium=ACQ-P%257CPS-GO%257CNon-Brand%257CDesktop%257CSU%257CSecurity%257CCognito%257CUS%257CEN%257CText&sc_segment=293649588890 5:06 \u2013 What are the other manage cloud services that companies want to offer through the tools you have?5:12 \u2013 Nader answers AJ\u2019s question.7:30 \u2013 Can you give me more specifics on the storage solutions you are offering?8:03 \u2013 Nader answers AJ\u2019s question. People store websites there for example. Frontend developers are using S3 buckets, and they are using the library, which is a storage solution.9:10 \u2013 AJ and Nader are having a dialogue between different situations, and Nader is giving the solutions to those hypothetical situations.10:17 \u2013 AJ: \u201cI am interested in what you are talking about https://aws.amazon.com/appsync/. Can you tell me how that works?\u201d AJ is picking Nader\u2019s brain about how https://aws.amazon.com/appsync/ works.11:05 \u2013 Nader: \u201cIt is a single API layer for a point of entry. You can have multi-data sources.\u201d Nader continues, in detail, answering AJ\u2019s question.12:36 \u2013 AJ: As a frontend developer, it sounds like I will have to become familiar with the backend, too. How is it providing the most value? What is it that I do not have to touch, because I am using this?15:37 \u2013 How would these relations work? As a frontend developer, and I do not want to learn sequel, how would that might look like; currently or in the future? How do you extract that knowledge?16:18 \u2013 Yes, it is not an easy solution to solve. Nader goes into detail about how he would approach this situation.18:26 \u2013 AJ: Are these resolvers written in https://www.javascript.com?22:04 \u2013 Acronym fun!22:45 \u2013 https://nodejs.org/en/ 23:51 \u2013 Summarizing these pasts 20-some-minutes: Off-Storage, https://aws.amazon.com/appsync/,https://sites.google.com/site/landismodel/developers, and others are what people are using Amplify for. New Question/New Topic: Simplify.25:45 \u2013 https://aws.amazon.com/mobile/ \u2013 is not mobile specific.26:44 \u2013 If you are using https://angular.io, we have a plugin in https://angular.io to help you. We also have that for React and https://vuejsdevelopers.com as well.27:52 \u2013 https://sentry.io/welcome/ 28:56 \u2013 What should we be talking about?29:04 \u2013 Let\u2019s talk about Amazon\u2019s Lex, https://aws.amazon.com/lex/?ef_id=W5RTKgAAAUa7GPf1%3A20180908230815%3As&s_kwcid=AL%214422%213%21209039218013%21p%21%21g%21%21amazon%2520chatbot&sc_campaign=lex_2017&sc_category=lex&sc_channel=PS&sc_content=chatbot_p&sc_country=US&sc_detail=amazon%2520chatbot&sc_matchtype=p&sc_medium=awns_lex_b&sc_publisher=google&sc_segment=209039218013. Nader goes into full detail of this service.33:52 \u2013 https://www.apple.com/tv/ 34:00 \u2013 AJ: Sounds like this is more platform/ more agnostic than getting different things to come together, and the Microsoft one is more hybrid and the Amazon one is more open?35:13 \u2013 Joe, let\u2019s go back to what you had to ask.35:28 \u2013 Nader, you talked about https://www.biznessapps.com/blog/what-is-a-push-notification/ earlier. What is https://cloud.google.com/pubsub/docs/overview?36:30 \u2013 Is this like traditional hooks? Or custom?37:25 \u2013 What is the \u201cstuff\u201d that gets you up in the morning and gets you excited to go to work at AWS?38:40 \u2013 Nader: I really had no desire to change career paths, but it happened.41:30 \u2013 AJ: I totally agree with the idea in that finding the common patterns, so that way someone on the lower-level can participate. AJ wants a platform that is open or purchase that can offer some of these benefits. It could be open-source or you used to buy the different tools.43:27 AJ: What about for the hobbyist?43:40 \u2013 Nader: I agree, that would be really nice. I can\u2019t think of any free services that would be nice.44:03 AJ \u2013 Not free in \u201cfree,\u201d but \u201cfree\u201d towards the idea of \u201cfree speech.\u201d They would all be available and you get to choose what works well for you.45:00 \u2013 SHOUTOUT to LISTENERS: Have an idea about this? Shoot the panel an e-mail!45:33 \u2013 Hopefully this opens the listeners\u2019 eyes to what\u2019s out there.45:48 \u2013 Cloud services.46:55 \u2013 Innovation follows niche markets. When something gets big and established, innovation comes to a plateau. The innovation will develop in a new economic area like hydraulics. AJ thinks a niche will develop.49:03 \u2013 Is there anything, Dabit, which you would like to talk about?49:15 \u2013 Can we talk about https://docs.aws.amazon.com/aws-technical-content/latest/aws-overview/artificial-intelligence-services.html?51:10 \u2013 Nader saw a demonstration recently.52:26 \u2013 Hearing these implications is so cool, but when it comes to ML a panelist dabbled a little bit. He watched some videos, unless you want to devote a year or two to learning it then it\u2019s too complex to put together. Do you have to be genius-level to get through?53:29 \u2013 ML you are passing data. Nader is not quite sure.56:00 Nader just did a blog post \uf0e0 check-it-out!56:49 \u2013 Let\u2019s do Picks!56:50 \u2013 https://www.digitalocean.com/ Links:
- https://twitter.com/dabit3?ref_src=twsrc%255Egoogle%257Ctwcamp%255Eserp%257Ctwgr%255Eauthor
- https://medium.com/@dabit3
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/naderdabit/
- https://github.com/dabit3
- http://naderdabit.me/#/
- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7mca3O0DmdSG2Cr80sOD7g
- https://egghead.io/instructors/nader-dabit
- https://www.javascript.com
- https://aws.amazon.com/cognito/?ef_id=W5RTKgAAAUa7GPf1%3A20180908225434%3As&s_kwcid=AL%214422%213%21293649588890%21p%21%21g%21%21cognito&sc_campaign=acquisition_USsc_publisher%3Dgoogle&sc_category=Security&sc_channel=PS&sc_content=cognito_p&sc_country=US&sc_detail=cognito&sc_matchtype=p&sc_medium=ACQ-P%257CPS-GO%257CNon-Brand%257CDesktop%257CSU%257CSecurity%257CCognito%257CUS%257CEN%257CText&sc_segment=293649588890
- https://aws.amazon.com/appsync/https://nodejs.org/en/
- https://sites.google.com/site/landismodel/developers
- https://aws.amazon.com/mobile/
- https://vuejsdevelopers.com
- https://angular.io
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