JSJ 330: “AWS: Amplify” with Nader Dabit

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Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2018 10:00:00 +0000

<div class="trix-content"> <div><strong>Panel: </strong></div><ul> <li>AJ O’Neal</li> <li>Aimee Knight</li> <li>Joe Eames</li> </ul><div> <strong>Special Guests:</strong> <a href="http://naderdabit.me/#/">Nader Dabit </a> </div><div>In this episode, the panel talks with programmer, Nader Dabit, who has been with Amazon’s 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!</div><div><strong>Show Topics:</strong></div><div>1:45 – There are two main things that Nader works with. Check out this timestamp to see what they are.</div><div>3:29 – AJ to Nader: Tell me more about manage cloud. I am not sure about <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/cognito/?sc_channel=PS&amp;sc_campaign=acquisition_USsc_publisher=google&amp;sc_medium=ACQ-P%257CPS-GO%257CNon-Brand%257CDesktop%257CSU%257CSecurity%257CCognito%257CUS%257CEN%257CText&amp;sc_content=cognito_p&amp;sc_detail=cognito&amp;sc_category=Security&amp;sc_segment=293649588890&amp;sc_matchtype=p&amp;sc_country=US&amp;s_kwcid=AL!4422!3!293649588890!p!!g!!cognito&amp;ef_id=W5RTKgAAAUa7GPf1:20180908225434:s">Cognito</a>.</div><div>3:56 – <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/cognito/?sc_channel=PS&amp;sc_campaign=acquisition_USsc_publisher=google&amp;sc_medium=ACQ-P%257CPS-GO%257CNon-Brand%257CDesktop%257CSU%257CSecurity%257CCognito%257CUS%257CEN%257CText&amp;sc_content=cognito_p&amp;sc_detail=cognito&amp;sc_category=Security&amp;sc_segment=293649588890&amp;sc_matchtype=p&amp;sc_country=US&amp;s_kwcid=AL!4422!3!293649588890!p!!g!!cognito&amp;ef_id=W5RTKgAAAUa7GPf1:20180908225434:s">Yes, Cognito is used by/through Amazon.</a> </div><div>5:06 – What are the other manage cloud services that companies want to offer through the tools you have?</div><div>5:12 – Nader answers AJ’s question.</div><div>7:30 – Can you give me more specifics on the storage solutions you are offering?</div><div>8:03 – Nader answers AJ’s question. People store websites there for example. Frontend developers are using S3 buckets, and they are using the library, which is a storage solution.</div><div>9:10 – AJ and Nader are having a dialogue between different situations, and Nader is giving the solutions to those hypothetical situations.</div><div>10:17 – AJ: “I am interested in what you are talking about <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/appsync/">AppSync</a>. Can you tell me how that works?” AJ is picking Nader’s brain about how <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/appsync/">AppSync</a> works.</div><div>11:05 – Nader: “It is a single API layer for a point of entry. You can have multi-data sources.” Nader continues, in detail, answering AJ’s question.</div><div>12:36 – 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?</div><div>15:37 – 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?</div><div>16:18 – Yes, it is not an easy solution to solve. Nader goes into detail about how he would approach this situation.</div><div>18:26 – AJ: Are these resolvers written in <a href="https://www.javascript.com">JavaScript</a>?</div><div>22:04 – Acronym fun!</div><div>22:45 – <a href="https://nodejs.org/en/">Node</a> </div><div>23:51 – Summarizing these pasts 20-some-minutes: Off-Storage, <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/appsync/">AppSync</a>,<a href="https://sites.google.com/site/landismodel/developers"> Landis</a>, and others are what people are using Amplify for. New Question/New Topic: Simplify.</div><div>25:45 – <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/mobile/">AWS MOBILE</a> – is not mobile specific.</div><div>26:44 – If you are using <a href="https://angular.io"... Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/javascript-jabber/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy