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Summary: Serverless comes with its own set of best practices, quirks and benefits when it comes to monitoring and performance engineering.<br><br>In this episode we have Michael Garski, Director of Platform Engineering at Fender Musical Instruments ( <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/mgarski/" rel="noopener">https://www.linkedin.com/in/mgarski/</a> ), giving us a technical deep dive into lessons learned and best practices they learned when re-platforming their architecture to AWS Lambda. We get to learn about optimizing Cold Starts, Re-Using HTTP Connections, Leveraging API Gateway Caching and finding the sweet spot for CPU & Memory settings to optimize price/performance of AWS Lambda executions.<br><br>For more details check out Michael’s slides on Innovating Through React Native Mobile Apps. ( <a href="https://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/innovating-through-react-native-mobile-apps-with-fender-musical-instrumentspdf" rel="noopener">https://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/innovating-through-react-native-mobile-apps-with-fender-musical-instrumentspdf</a> )