Momento cofounder Khawaja Shams joined theburningmonk’s Real World Serverless Podcast to discuss what makes caching difficult in serverless architectures. Drawing on his distributed systems experience, including leading the Amazon DynamoDB team, he explains how that problem led him to create Momento.
What the conversation covers
Across the 30-minute episode, Shams shares anecdotes from building scalable serverless services and discusses:
- why traditional cache infrastructure breaks the serverless operating model;
- the problems developers encounter when they add caching; and
- how Momento Cache approaches caching without requiring teams to manage servers.
They’ve got S3 for storage, they’ve got DynamoDB for their persistence of key-value, lookups, and so forth. And then it’s time to help accelerate and the entire serverless dream falls apart—because you cannot do caching today without introducing servers into the mix.
—Khawaja Shams
Listen to the episode
Listen to episode 62 of the Real World Serverless Podcast for the full conversation about serverless caching and the origins of Momento.
