#730: The Frugal Architect w/ Werner Vogels: At Too Good To Go, Practical Engineering Keeps Food Out of the Bin
In the fifth episode of "The Frugal Architect" podcast, Werner and co-host Simon Elisha welcome Morten Keldebaek (CTO) and Robert Hjertmann from Too Good To Go. Too Good To Go is the world's largest marketplace for surplus food, connecting consumers with restaurants, cafes, and grocery stores to rescue food that would otherwise go to waste. The discussion will start with their journey from Endomondo (a sports tracking app) to Too Good To Go, exploring how they applied frugal engineering principles across both startups. They'll dive deep into the technical challenges of scaling a global platform with limited resources, the architectural decisions that enabled their growth, and how their frugal mindset aligns perfectly with Too Good To Go's mission of reducing waste. The conversation will highlight how constraints breed creativity and how asking "why" before building has helped them create sustainable, scalable systems while keeping costs under control.
Learn More:
• https://aws.amazon.com/architecture/sustainability-pillar/: Explore the Sustainability Pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework
• https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/the-frugal-architect/: Read more about The Frugal Architect series by Werner Vogels
• https://toogoodtogo.com/en-us/movement: Learn about Too Good To Go's mission and impact
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#729: AWS News: Aurora Storage Upgrades, DynamoDB Multi-Region Strong Consistency, and More
There are over 60 new updates that your hosts Simon, Jillian and Shruthi take you through this week!
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#728: The Duck Talks Back - Using GENAI in Your Work
Simon shares some tips, tricks, and experiences in how Builders can use GENAI in their work to get things done faster, and with better outcomes.
Links:
Amazon Q Developer CLI: https://github.com/aws/amazon-q-developer-cli
Promptz: https://www.promptz.dev/
AWS MCP Servers: https://github.com/awslabs/mcp
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#727: AWS News: AWS Shield Network Security Director, Amazon GuardDuty for EKS, and more
Simon and Jillian take you through all the big security announcements from AWS re:Inforce plus a host of cool new features and price reductions!
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#726: Single region, zero excuses: Mastering AWS resilience
Dive into single-region resilience with AWS experts John Formento and Tarik Makota as they debunk common misconceptions and share practical strategies for building robust applications. Learn why multi-AZ isn't enough on its own, discover key AWS services for resilience, and get actionable tips for identifying and mitigating failure modes.
Learn More: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/prescriptive-guidance/latest/resilience-analysis-framework/introduction.html
The Official AWS Podcast is a podcast for developers and IT professionals looking for the latest news and trends in storage, security, infrastructure, serverless, and more. Join Simon Elisha and Hawn Nguyen-Loughren for regular updates, deep dives, launches, and interviews. Whether you’re training machine learning models, developing open source projects, or building cloud solutions, the Official AWS Podcast has something for you.
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