Lab: Deploying a virtual dev environment with AWS LightSail

***This will be a virtual meetup. We will be video conferencing using Zoom, please make sure you have signed up for Zoom, as this is now a requirement to join Zoom meetings.

Not everyone can afford a shiny new MacBook, and provisioning a VM on your personal machine can be a drag. So instead, we will set up a virtual development environment using AWS Lightsail. This will allow us to offload all the work to an AWS EC2 instance, freeing up precious resources on our personal computers.

We will be using AWS LightSail: https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail - if you plan on following along during the lab, please sign up for a lightsail account in advance.

AGENDA

SCHEDULE

6:30: Virtual high-fives, General Networking

7:00-8:00: Presentation

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Lab: Deploying a virtual dev environment with AWS LightSail

Jordan Rhodes
John Hampton

LOGISTICS

Topic: ReactJS Tampa Bay - May 27, 2020
Time: May 27, 2020 06:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

*** We will be hosting via Zoom ***

About the Presenter

John is a founding member of the ReactJS Tampa Bay Meetup and currently works as an Engineering Manager at GitLab. He previously worked at AgileThought and has been in the Software Industry for ~17 years. He enjoys all technology, and favors Go, Node, and Python.

Jordan is a Sr Software Engineer at Exzeo USA, Inc. He started programming in his late 20’s, and has been riding the JavaScript renaissance ever since. Being “self taught”, he loves helping those new to software development find their way.