January Meetup - Mobile Apps on AWS and Maps - the Original Big Data Problem

Hi Everyone! It's time for our first meeting of 2017!

Note we have a new location. Proven Recruiting is hosting us now! Many thanks to Kelly Feest for arranging the meeting place. Here's the address:

9444 Waples St., San Diego, CA

Note: We were originally setup to be hosted at Qualcomm but there was a problem with the space so we've moved to the Proven Recruiting office!

Food & Drink Sponsor: Kelly Feest and Proven Recruiting are sponsoring this event!

Schedule

5:30 doors open - networking and (hopefully) food/drink

6:00 Android group housekeeping

6:10 Rob Chohan on Maps

6:35 Rohan Deshpande on Mobile Apps using AWS

8:00ish - wrap up

Parking: There's parking in the garage (no gates / no badging need) and also street parking around the perimeter of the campus.

Here's a map of the area. We will be in building AZ!

http://photos4.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/c/1/6/8/600_457549512.jpeg

Presenters: We have 2 presenters for this meeting.

Building Secure and Scalable Mobile Applications on AWS

by Rohan Deshpande, Senior Engineer Amazon Web Services

Description: AWS Mobile Hub is a cloud platform for developers to "build, test, and monitor mobile apps" that leverage AWS services. AWS Mobile Hub lets you easily add and configure features for your mobile apps, including user authentication, data storage, APIs and backend logic, push notifications, intelligent bots, content delivery, and analytics. Whether you are creating a brand new mobile app or adding features to an existing app, AWS Mobile Hub lets you leverage the features, scalability, reliability, and low cost of AWS in minutes. AWS Mobile Hub walks you through feature selection and configuration, automatically provisions the AWS services required to power these features, and generates working apps for iOS and Android that use your provisioned services.
You can then test your app on the same devices your customers use and run tests across a large selection of physical devices. Unlike emulators, physical devices provide a more accurate understanding of how users interact with your app by taking into account factors such as memory, CPU usage, location, and modifications done by manufactures and carriers to the firmware and software.

In this session, we will demo how to create a mobile app with AWS Mobile Hub and integrate the features with various AWS Services, and test the app using AWS Device Farm.

Speaker Bio: Rohan Deshpande is a Senior Engineer with Amazon Web Services. He is the technical owner of the Amazon Mobile Push/SMS/Email channels, AWS Device Farm, Amazon Pinpoint, AWS Mobile Hub, and the AWS SDK for React Native. He is passionate about the mobile developer experience, automation, intelligent interfaces, and serverless cloud computing.

Maps — the original big data problem (literally). Maps — the original data visualization solution.

by Rob Chohan, Mobile Architect (https://www.linkedin.com/title/mobile-architect?trk=mprofile_title), ePi Rational, Inc. (https://www.linkedin.com/vsearch/p?company=ePi+Rational%2C+Inc%2E&trk=prof-exp-company-name)

Summary: No matter how you describe a map, it is probably one of the top ten used apps on your mobile device. Consider how much land or square kilometers a paper map covers. Add in a mobile device and GPS receiver, and a location that has no data signal and you have solid compelling product for traversing the back country with a mobile map. The talk will focus around making a back country hiking map for iOS and Android based on US Forest Service maps that are freely available.

This talk is about the power of maps for mobile. Rob will discuss the data wrangling and image processing of making a map for mobile using open source technologies such as Mapbox, GDAL, GeoJSON, and WEBP.

For a quick intro on the product check out: http://RobLabs.com/MtW (http://roblabs.com/MtW)

Speaker Bio: Rob Chohan loves maps. Rob is taking his background in statistics, image processing, mobile imaging, and printing to create innovations in maps for mobile. Rob currently works for ePi Rational, Inc., a San Diego based startup creating innovations in cartography, data visualization, mobile, and geoinformatics. ePi focuses on 'data wrangling' to tell a story about a location. Rob has a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and a Master of Science in Statistics, both from Oregon State University. He has two patents related to calibration.