AWS User Group North #27: containers and serverless focus

We have a fantastic and packed agenda for this next meetup, so I’ve pushed out the end time to run from 6 to 9pm - hope that still works for everyone. See below for full, updated details of speakers and timings. We have a waitlist, so as ever, if you can’t now make it, please update your RSVP. Thanks and look forward to seeing you there!

6 - 6.15: Welcome, intros, etc

6.15 - 7: Session 1
Heitor Lessa, Specialist Solutions Architect, Serverless - AWS
Title: Building Real-Time Serverless Back Ends with AWS AppSync
Abstract: GraphQL is an open standard that lets you request, change, and subscribe to the exact data you need in a single network request. This makes prototyping and building data-intensive applications as simple as writing a few lines of code. In this session, we’ll introduce the core concepts of GraphQL and put that into practice with real-world implementations using tools such as AWS Lambda and AWS AppSync to deliver real-time collaborative experiences for web and mobile apps. We’ll also show you how to use multiple data sources, manage off-line users’ data, and resolve data conflicts.

7 - 7.30: Pizza and drinks break (and some announcements)

7.30 - 8.15: Session 2
Ryan Thornley, Technical Lead, deep3.co.uk
Title: Using Serverless (framework), Lambda functions, and AWS Fargate to perform document transformations for NCSC [National Cyber Security Centre]

8.15 - 8.30: Break

8.30 - 9: Session 3
Paul Maddox, Specialist Solutions Architect, DevOps & Developer Technologies - AWS
Title: Putting canaries into containers (25min + 5min Q/A)
Abstract: “I want fast, safe deployments, and I want to be able to roll back/forwards quickly in the event of a problem” said every developer ever. In this talk, we’ll dive into the world of canary deployments, why most articles and guides you read about them online are flawed, and how to implement a really good canary deployment pipeline for containers with Kubernetes, Spinnaker, Istio and Prometheus.

Our sponsors are steamhaus.co.uk, AWS and DevOps consultancy based in Manchester. (I have a vested interest here in that I work for Steamhaus, but we're big into Docker, K8S, EKS etc so I hope you'll forgive the self-interest!).
Steamhaus will be providing beers from local brewery www.shindiggerbrewing.co, (plus other beverages) and pizzas.