We are excited to announce our relaunch!

Our first meetup for 2019 is going to take place in the meeting space on the third floor of Apsley House in Leeds.

• 6:30: Doors, chance to mingle.
• 7:15: Group news, updates and announcements
• 7:25: Combating Fraud and Providing Customer Insights In Real Time: A journey from Big Iron to AWS
• 8:05: Break
• 8:20: Cost Optimisation on AWS
• 9:00: Social

=

Combating Fraud and Providing Customer Insights In Real Time - Matt Houghton, CDL

Learn how CDL, a software provider for the retail insurance sector, processes vast amounts of consumer data in milliseconds using machine learning, AI and big data in order to help the UK's biggest insurance providers combat fraud, learn consumer habits, and more.

The talk will cover how we tried and failed to build a solution, called Hummingbird, with ‘big iron’ before moving to the cloud with AWS. We developed and delivered at scale in under 8 months. We will demo how Hummingbird works in production and how our DevOps team uses key AWS Services, logging, monitoring and machine learning to continually improve and deliver enhancements to the service.

We will share our experience and lessons learnt from completing an AWS Well-Architected Review and applying Chaos Engineering disciplines through Game Days. Technologies discussed include packer, terraform, Elasticsearch, DynamoDB, lambdas and containers.

Matt is a Technical Consultant at CDL. Their customer base comprises high volume retail operations or start-ups with serious growth ambitions, including over 100 Internet brands and all the major price comparison sites, and they also have partnerships with over 50 UK insurers. https://www.cdl.co.uk/