No More Black Boxes: Observable Local AWS Dev with LocalStack App Inspector
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Join our May meetup where Shelton Graves from LocalStack demonstrates how App Inspector opens up the black box of AWS development with a real-time view of every service interaction inside your local cloud. He'll show how it reveals exactly what triggered what, with what payload, and in what order, so you can catch bugs locally before they ever reach staging or production.
Talk Abstract
You've been there: Lambda triggers, SQS messages fly, Step Functions execute, and somewhere in the middle, something breaks. You have no idea what triggered what, what payload was passed, or where it all went wrong.
That's the black box problem of AWS development.
Once your architecture grows beyond a single service, visibility disappears fast. You're left stitching together scattered logs and redeploying just to see what's going on.
App Inspector is LocalStack's built-in observability layer that opens up that black box. It gives you a real-time, unified view of every service interaction happening inside your local cloud: what triggered what, with what payload, in what order.
In this talk, we'll walk through what App Inspector is, how it fits into your LocalStack workflow, and how to use it to catch bugs locally before they ever reach staging or production.
About Speaker
Shelton Graves is a Senior Technical Product Manager at LocalStack, focused on Developer Experience. Before joining LocalStack, he served as Senior Product Manager for Docker Hub, and brings over a decade of experience across cloud native infrastructure, Kubernetes, serverless, and developer tooling.
Participation
This event will be streamed live on YouTube. Once registered, you’ll receive a link and calendar invite with YouTube Live details. You can view the live stream, participate in chat, or join Q&A. You will be able to access the event recording on our YouTube channel.
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