LEGO.com Software Engineering Meetup - September 2019

** Please note - this meetup is focused on software engineering at the LEGO Group (including Node.js, React, AWS Serverless and more) - rather than talking about the LEGO Group in general :-) **

Join us at the LEGO Hub in London for our fourth software engineering-focused meetup where we’ll be talking about our adventures building LEGO.com.

Come learn about LEGO.com and make new JavaScript friends. Food and drinks provided (note all drinks are alcohol-free and meat, veggie, vegan and GF food options provided).

Please enter your full name when you RSVP - we need it for building security!

Agenda:

6:30 - Arrival, food, drinks and networking
7:00 - Introduction and update on LEGO.com - Joe Hart (Software Engineer, The LEGO Group)
7:10 - “🥓 === OSS - 10 things every maintainer should do to 💓open source” - Lorenzo Sciandra (Software Engineer, Formidable)
7:35 - “Fargate Journey of LEGO.com (former shop.lego.com)” - Alvaro Llamojha (Senior Infrastructure Engineer, The LEGO Group)
7:50 - Networking Break
8:00 - No more AWS Keys for you - Nicole Yip (Senior Infrastructure Engineer, The LEGO Group)
8:20 - Serverless Patterns - Sheen Brisals (Senior Application Engineer & Coach)
8:45 - Wrap up

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Talk #1 - 🥓 === OSS - 10 things every maintainer should do to 💓open source - Lorenzo Sciandra

Open Source and, in particular, maintaining a project is often seen as something complicated or an overhead.

In this talk, I'll try to make you fall in love with being an OSS maintainer - the same way you'd fall in love with bacon.

Talk #2 - Fargate Journey of LEGO.com (former shop.lego.com) - Alvaro Llamojha

Alvaro will take you on an Infrastructure/DevOps journey across the latest changes on LEGO.com. Starting on the CI pipelines implementation through the migration to AWS Fargate featuring Terraform and ending with releasing using CircleCI.

Talk #3 - No more AWS Keys for you - Nicole Yip

AWS has security built into all of it's services and an extensive toolkit for keeping intruders out. But some people legitimately need access... like the dev team. This talk will explore how we are enabling our dev team to access our environments without needing to trust that they will guard their AWS keys with their lives.

*Talk #4 - Serverless Patterns - Sheen Brisals

Connecting LEGO play experience with millions around the world requires an innovative platform. This fueled the cloud migration of the legacy eCommerce platform. Based on that experience, this talk takes you through a number of serverless patterns employed during this journey, and discussed with real world scenarios to get you better equipped for your serverless journey!