AMA with Yan Cui

This is our first ever “ask me anything” (AMA) session and we are delighted to have the amazing Yan Cui (@theburningmonk) join us on our Discord server to answer your questions.

Yan is an experienced engineer who has run production workload at scale in AWS for over 10 years. He has been an architect and principal engineer with a variety of industries ranging from banking, e-commerce, sports streaming to mobile gaming. He has worked extensively with AWS Lambda in production since 2015. Nowadays, he splits his time between advancing the state of serverless observability as a Developer Advocate at lumigo.io and helping companies around the world adopt serverless as an independent consultant.

Yan is also an AWS Serverless Hero and a regular speaker at user groups and conferences internationally. He is the author of Production-Ready Serverless and co-author of Serverless Architectures on AWS, 2nd Edition, both by Manning. And he keeps an active blog at https://theburningmonk.com and hosts a weekly podcast at https://realworldserverless.com.

So join our Discord server here (https://discord.gg/yMa8Rvtsmy) and start posting your questions for Yan in our AMA -> Yan Cui channel. Keep checking back on the server to have your vote on new questions.

Yan will start answering the questions live at 7pm, 26th May and you can also ask your questions during the live chat session.

In case you have never attended an AMA before, here are the rules

• The AMA channel is for questions to Yan only, so please don’t reply to other people’s questions. If you'd like to comment on the questions, please do so in the #general channel. Any messages apart from questions in this channel will be removed.
• Please feel free to upvote or downvote any question in this channel - just click on the thumbs.
• The questions with the most positive votes will be answered by Yan, however Yan is free to answer/not answer any question posted in this channel.

If you want to add your own questions:

• First check that no one else has asked the same/similar question.
• Keep your questions short and to the point
• You must follow our CoC (https://bit.ly/3bLn6Us)
• Post your question - the thumb reactions will be added automatically for voting

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