AWS Meetup #8 - Cardiff

We're thrilled to announce the 8th meetup of the AWS South Wales User Group, with an incredible line up of speakers, and a return to the stunning headquarters of Alert Logic (https://www.alertlogic.com/) in Cardiff.

The order of talks is still to be confirmed, but the rough agenda is as follows

Rough Agenda:

17:30 - Doors Open and refreshments

18:00 - Introduction

18:05 - Sam Machin (@sammachin (https://twitter.com/sammachin)) - Amazon Lex

Sam Machin, Alexa champion and developer advocate at Nexmo (https://www.nexmo.com/), will provide a general overview of Lex and how it relates / differs from the Alexa Voice Service. He will then show how to hook this up to the Nexmo Lex Connector, opening up a whole new world of possibilities. If you are interested in how natural language communication can be combined with Bots and AI, this talk is for you.

18:40 - Nic Jackson (@sheriffjackson (https://twitter.com/sheriffjackson)) - Nomad

Nic Jackson is a developer advocate and polyglot programmer working for Hashicorp (@Hashicorp (https://twitter.com/HashiCorp)), and the author of "Building Microservices with Go (https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/building-microservices-go)", a book which examines the best patterns and practices for building microservices with the Go programming language. In his spare time, Nic coaches and mentors at Coder Dojo (https://coderdojo.com/), teaches at Women Who Go (@womenwhogo (https://twitter.com/womenwhogo)) and GoBridge (https://golangbridge.org/), speaks and evangelises good practice, processes and technique.

Hashicorp provide a suite that includes Vagrant, Packer, Terraform, Vault, Nomad and Consul. This talk will focus on Nomad.

Nomad is a highly available and distributed scheduler supporting virtualised, containerised and standalone applications. Designed to run across multiple data centres and even multiple cloud providers, this talk will examine Nomad’s major features and demonstrate how a Nomad cluster can easily handle a cloud provider outage

19:15 - New Relic (@newrelic (https://twitter.com/newrelic))

New Relic have been recognised as a leader 5 years running in Gartner's magic quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring. New Relic help you understand how your applications and cloud services work together, and allows you to quickly resolve issues when they don't. Learn best practices in monitoring distributed applications to enable you to gain increased visibility of your application performance and improve resolution speed.

19:50 - 20:30 - Networking and Close

Sponsors
Special thanks to our sponsors:

• Alert Logic (https://www.alertlogic.com/) for allowing us to use their venue in Cardiff

• TechHub Swansea (https://swansea.techhub.com/) for allowing us to use their venue in Swansea

• Mobilise (http://mobilise.cloud/) for providing refreshments

• A Cloud Guru (https://acloud.guru/) for supporting the meet up and providing special offers to members

• Hacking Insider (http://www.hackinginsider.com/) for recording the talks