AWS Usergroup Dublin MeetUp #18

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AGENDA

17:45 – Doors Open / Registration / Networking / Grab a Drink
18.00 – START - AWS | User Group Network (Dublin)

Intro to Speakers & Sponsors, update on User Group news and Raffle Prize details with Jason O'Conaill (https://twitter.com/aokcloud), Group Leader.

We will have an attractive hoard of geeky Prizes for this meet up + Metalman Craftbeer and even some background music.

With thanks to Amazon AWS, we'll have plenty of AWS $50 credits to give away during the evening for best questions and audience feedback.

18.10: Colm MacCárthaigh AWS (https://aws.amazon.com/)

@colmmacc (https://twitter.com/colmmacc)

Principal Engineer working on ELB, S3, Route 53, CloudFront, DDOS, and Crypto at AWS.

David Brown will be here too. He's Director of Engineering for ELB

Colm will speak about the AWS Application Load Balancer, with useful takeaways people can apply right away and Encryption.

An Application Load Balancer is a load balancing option for the Elastic Load Balancing service that operates at the application layer and allows you to define routing rules based on content across multiple services or containers running on one or more Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances.

18:40: Mandi Walls – Chef (https://www.chef.io/)

Author and leading expert on DevOps Mandi Walls from Chef Key DevOps Lessons from Cloud Migrations

This talk will share some of the lessons that Chef has learned while helping organizations make use of cloud infrastructures and DevOps Practices. Many organizations approach migrating to the Cloud with one of two mindsets: do everything the same but use the cloud to run the end products; or throw away everything we're currently using and start over from brand new. Successful implementations build on good practice and switch out things that don't work. We'll talk about some of the things we've seen organizations do and some that lead to struggle.

Q&A

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19:05 Networking break - Beer & Food

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19:30: Alexa Deep Dive – building a voice App – with Cloud Architect Alan Kiernan (https://www.linkedin.com/in/alan-kiernan-a2876b18?authType=NAME_SEARCH&authToken=u3GC&locale=en_US&trk=tyah&trkInfo=clickedVertical%3Amynetwork%2CclickedEntityId%3A61606400%2CauthType%3ANAME_SEARCH%2Cidx%3A1-1-1%2CtarId%3A1483637023427%2Ctas%3Aalan%20kier) from Cation Dynamics working with Ryanair (http://www.ryanair.com/)

The objective of this session is to:

• Demonstrate the build of an Alexa voice app in realtime on node.js.

• Complete zero --> App deployed and demonstrated live... with no "fancy tooling"

• Prepared Code snippets used and walked through

• Utterances and Lists prepared in advanced but deployed in realtime.

• Artefacts Deployed & Tested in realtime.

The application itself will be one that integrated directly with Ryanairs plublic facings API's via an api gateway, realtime flight details, or ticket schedules and price.

20:00: Alexa Deep Dive - Oscar Merry (https://twitter.com/MerryOscar) from Opearlo (http://www.opearlo.com/)

Oscar has extensive experience with Amazon Alexa, having worked with the technology since November 2015.

Tonight he will talk about best practices ha has found and also the Alexa skill analytics tool Opearlo just launched into beta

http://analytics.opearlo.com (https://t.co/AmkFP8sQKi)

20:20 Sam Machin Developer Advocate @nexmo (https://twitter.com/sammachin)

Sam has been developing with Alexa since late 2015, most of his work has been on the Alexa Voice Service building new and interesting ways to access Alexa.

His project "The $10 Echo" reached the No. 1 spot on Hacker News and generated significant interest by allowing people to build their own Alexa devices based on platforms like the Raspberry Pi.

The project has since been taken forward by the community with many additional features and improvements.

He also created a browser based Alexa client which was particularly useful for testing and was used as the basis for the Amazon tool http://echosim.io

He was recognized by Amazon as one of the first 10 Alexa Champions and the first one outside the US.
Sam will talk about how to get started with the Alexa Voice Service and show us some of his work.

20:50 Wrap Up - Awarding of Prizes - More event Announcements and maybe a surprise or two!