Fixing Shadow AI and Surviving re:Invent with Chase Douglas
Chase Douglas, CEO at Archodex, talks about AI security problems and why re:Invent has become a nightmare. Chase helps companies capture every AI interaction so they don't get in trouble with compliance. Corey and Chase discuss Shadow AI, why Corey runs Claude Code in an account called “Superfund,” and how re:Invent put metal spikes on benches so people couldn't sit down. They also talk about why AWS released fewer announcement than before, and why Chase is finally optimistic about AI coding tools after months of frustration.
Show Highlights:
(01:51) What Archodex Does
(07:00) The Superfund Account for AI
(08:19) Shadow AI Problem
(11:41) What Happened at re:Invent
(14:59) Sponsorship Costs at re:Invent
(17:00) Metal Spikes on Benches
(21:39) AWS Releases Declining
(25:24) Why Chase Is Finally Optimistic About AI Coding
(27:13) Code Review Changed with AI
(31:22) Where to Find Chase
Links:
Archodex: https://archodex.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chasedouglas/
Sponsored by:
duckbillhq.com
Serverless Evangelism with Farrah Campbell
About Farrah Campbell
After 10 years of working in healthcare management, a serendipitous 20-minute car ride with Kara Swisher inspired Farrah to make the jump into technology. She has worked at multiple startups in many different capacities, eventually working her way to being the Ecosystems Director for Stackery in Portland, Oregon.
As the Stackery Ecosystems Director, Farrah has managed the Stackery relationship with AWS including Stackery as an Advanced Technology Partner, achieving the AWS DevOps Competency, a launch partner for Lambda Layers and is an AWS Serverless Hero. Farrah has cultivated the serverless community as an organizer of Portland Serverless Days, the Portland Serverless Meetup, along with numerous serverless workshops and the Portland tech community events from Techfest to bringing multiple luminaries to Portland.
Links Referenced
AD: DigitalOcean
AD: DataStax
Portland Serverless Days
Portland Serverless Meetup
Twitter: @FarrahC32
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/farrahcampbell/
Email: farrah@stackery.io
Personal site: https://medium.com/@FarrahC32
Company site: www.stackery.io
Episode 62: Serverless Storytelling with Anna Spysz
About Anna Spysz
Anna Spysz is a writer turned software engineer at Stackery in Portland. When not software engineering, she likes to travel, play music, and kung fu fight for fun and profit.
Links Referenced:
https://www.stackery.io
https://medium.com/@annaspies
Episode 38: Must be Willing to Defeat the JSON Heretics
Do you understand how tabs work? How spaces work? Are you willing to defeat the JSON heretics? Most people understand the power of the serverless paradigm, but need help to put it into a useful form. That’s where Stackery comes in to treat YAML as an assembly language. After all, no one programs processors like they did in the '80s with raw assembly routines and no one programs with C. Everyone is using a higher-level scripted or other programming language.
Today, we’re talking to Chase Douglas, co-founder and CTO of Stackery, which is serverless acceleration software where levels of abstraction empower you to move quickly. Stackery has an intricate binding model that gives you a visual representation - at a human logical level - of the infrastructure you defined in your application.
Some of the highlights of the show include:
Stackery builds infrastructures by using best practices with security applications
What's a VPC? Way to put resources into a Cloud account that aren’t accessible outside of that network; anything in that network can talk to each other
Lambda layers let developers create one Git layer that includes multiple functionality and put it in all functions for consistency and management
Git is an open-source amalgam of different programming languages that has grown and changed over time, but it has its own build system
Stackery created a PHP runtime functionality for Lambda; you don't want to run your own runtime - leave that up to a Cloud service provider for security reasons
Should you refactor existing Lambda functions to leverage layers? No, rebuild everything already built before re-architecting everything to use serverless
Many companies find serverless to be useful for their types of workloads; about 95% of workloads can effectively be engineered on a serverless foundation
Trough of Disillusionment or Gartner Hype Cycle: Stackery wants to re-engage and help people who have had challenges with serverless
Is DynamoDB considered serverless? Yes, because it’s got global replication
Puritanical (being able to scale down to zero) and practical approaches to the definition of serverless
Links:
Stackery
JSON
AWS
Lambda
Aurora Serverless Data API
Hype Cycle
Secrets Manager
YAML
S3
GitHub
GitLab
AWS Codecommit
Node.js
WordPress
re:Invent
Ruby on Rails
Kinesis Streams
DynamoDB
Docker
Simon Wardley
Datadog
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