Yan Cui
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what they talk about
all 15 in the filters
where they keep going back
- Craft Conference2 editions2019–2021
- NDC London2 editions2017–2018
all 26 in the filters
on a stage with
- Domas Lasauskasonce
who talks about the same things
- Eric Johnson25 talks
- Marcia Villalba15 talks
- Slobodan Stojanović16 talks
- Danilo Poccia16 talks
- Erwin van der Koogh4 talks
- Alex Casalboni12 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| How we built an AI-powered code reviewer in 80 hours | NDC Copenhagen 2025 | 2025-09-08 |
Prototype runs in a few hours; the backend takes 80 hours to stabilize using AWS API Gateway, Lambda, EventBridge, DynamoDB and Amazon Bedrock with Anthropic… | ||
| Patterns for efficient serverless development | Codemotion Madrid 2025 | 2025-05-20 |
Five concrete patterns for fast serverless development: use hexagonal architecture (ports-and-adapters) to isolate business logic and swap adapters for mocks… | ||
| Money-saving tips for the frugal serverless developer | DevOps Barcelona 2024 | 2024-11-14 |
Uses concrete fixes: enable billing alarms early, stop Secrets Manager calls per invocation that spiked costs, set CloudWatch retention to ~30 days and sample… | ||
| How to Choose the Right Messaging Service for Your Workload | GOTO EDA Day 2022 | 2022-09-01 |
Compares AWS bridges and queues by concrete tradeoffs: throughput quotas, Lambda concurrency behavior, cost per million messages and real-world scale… | ||
| Serverless in Production, Lessons from the Trenches | Node Congress 2022 | 2022-02-17 |
This talk provides valuable insights for those considering serverless in 2022, with a focus on troubleshooting and observability using Lumigo. It emphasizes… | ||
| Building Resilient Serverless Applications | Reliable Web Summit 2021 | 2021-08-26 |
Explains concrete failure modes and fixes: Lambda + API Gateway give multi-AZ but hit a hard 29 second API Gateway timeout, DynamoDB supports DynamoDB global… | ||
| Why your next serverless project should use AppSync | Craft Conference 2021 | 2021-06-02 |
Built a social network in a couple of weeks using AppSync + Lambda + DynamoDB and scales to hundreds of thousands of requests per day while costing about $60… | ||
| Build a social network with Serverless and GraphQL | JSWorld Conference 2021 | 2021-02-22 |
Claim: a working social network for university students is Built in 4 weeks using AppSync, Lambda, Algolia and Cognito with a three‑engineer effort and… | ||
| Serverless gives you wings | Frontend Love 2020 | 2020-10-01 |
Case study of moving a small social network from EC2 to serverless with migrated Yopo from EC2 to Lambda, replacing long deploys and 30‑minute downtime and… | ||
| How to build a social network on serverless | apidays Barcelona 2019 | 2019-09-12 |
Migrates a monolith to an event‑driven serverless backend using Kinesis streams, Lambda handlers and per‑service DynamoDB/Redis stores, reaching about 200… | ||
| How to build a social network entirely on serverless | Full Stack Fest 2019 | 2019-09-04 |
Yubl migrates from a monolith to serverless by publishing state changes to Kinesis and wiring Kinesis + Lambda + API Gateway for search, feeds… | ||
| How to build observability into a serverless application | Craft Conference 2019 | 2019-05-07 |
Shows how to implement log aggregation, tracing and correlation IDs for serverless apps using CloudWatch Logs, API Gateway, SNS/SQS/Kinesis and X‑Ray… | ||
| How to build a social network entirely on serverless | NDC Porto 2019 | 2019-02-26 |
Rebuilds a monolithic social network into an event-driven, serverless system using Kinesis, API Gateway, SQS, Redis, CloudSearch, BigQuery (or Athena + S3 +… | ||
| Applying principles of chaos engineering to serverless | Code Mesh LDN 2018 | 2018-11-08 |
Claims that chaos for serverless focuses on testing behavior not killing servers, and demonstrates concrete techniques: inject latency into HTTP client (config… | ||
| Applying the Principles of Chaos to Serverless | SREcon18 Europe/Middle East/Africa | 2018-08-29 |
Applies chaos engineering to AWS Lambda by instrumenting clients and configs rather than killing servers, using X‑Ray and SSM Parameter Store to injectableAll… | ||
| Serverless design patterns | Voxxed Days Luxembourg 2018 | 2018-06-21 |
Practical patterns: move periodic work and ops scripts off always-on servers into cron jobs → Lambda via CloudWatch Events to save cost; auto-subscribe new… | ||
| Serverless architectural patterns | NDC Oslo 2018 | 2018-06-11 |
Shows concrete serverless choices and tradeoffs: use API Gateway 29s timeout to justify background work; use SQS/SNS/Kinesis/DynamoDB Streams for brokering… | ||
| Serverless in production, an experience report | NDC London 2018 | 2018-01-15 |
Company migrates a monolith to an event-driven, service-oriented system centered on AWS Lambda and ships concrete wins: 170 Lambdas in production, running at… | ||
| Serverless in production, an experience report | Build Stuff 2017 | 2017-11-15 |
Company moves from EC2 to an event-driven, service-oriented stack centered on AWS Lambda, running 170 Lambda functions in production and paying roughly 5% of… | ||
| Serverless in production, an experience report | Codemotion Milan 2017 | 2017-11-10 |
Project migrates a monolithic backend to an event-driven stack centered on AWS Lambda, reaching 170 Lambda functions and cutting compute cost to roughly 5% of… | ||
| AWS Lambda from the trenches | code.talks 2017 | 2017-09-28 |
Claim: serverless replaces EC2 at large scale with 95% cost saving and over 170+ Lambda functions running in production. Built working Search, Timeline and… | ||
| Taming Cloud Complexity with F# DSLs | NDC London 2017 | 2017-01-16 |
The emergence of Cloud platforms has fundamentally changed the IT landscape. However, attempting to ride on this ever-expanding platform ecosystem wave has… | ||
| F# in the Real World | NDC Sydney 2016 | 2016-08-01 |
Gamesys social team uses F# to run backends for 1 million DAU and about 250 million daily requests, claiming a fivefold server efficiency gain and over 90%… | ||
| Tour of language landscape | The Lead Developer 2016 | 2016-06-23 |
A whirlwind tour of five languages shows concrete wins not platitudes: S3 type provider generates types on the fly so missing S3 objects fail compile rather… | ||
| Taming Cloud Complexity with F# DSLs | Lambda Days 2016 | 2016-02-25 |
Slides and more info: http://www.lambdadays.org/lambdadays2016/yan-cui
The emergence of Cloud platforms has fundamentally changed the IT landscape, to the… | ||
| F# in the real world | Lambda World 2015 | 2015-10-24 |
F# powers backend services for social games serving 1 million DAU and handling 250 million daily requests using AWS (S3, DynamoDB) plus MailboxProcessor actors… | ||
| My adventure with Elm | Codemotion Rome 2015 | 2015-03-25 |
Elm demo builds a playable Snake: keyboard arrows sampled at 20 frames per second feed foldp signals to produce a stream of full game states, a random seed… | ||
| F# in Social Gaming | Code Mesh 2013 | 2013-12-03 |
Backend for social slots and mobile games runs on F# and an actor-based agent/mailbox processor model supporting ~1,000,000 DAU; the slots engine and… | ||
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