Serverless Disaster Recovery - Auckland AWS Tools and Programming

Kia ora, dear members!

Our Auckland AWS Tools and Programming team is thrilled to invite you to our June meetup to learn more about disaster recovery from a guest speaker coming from Australia, especially to talk in our meetup.
We are honoured to have Dawn Cooper, Senior Software Engineer at Slack, who will talk about “Serverless Disaster Recovery” and guide us on leveraging some inherent features of serverless architecture to make disaster recovery much less painful.
It will be a fantastic night with delicious pizzas and beers, kindly sponsored by Mantel and AWS.
Don’t forget that our meetup is also a great opportunity to network and have a great time with friends. Join us!

Since this meetup will take place at AWS offices, please remember to bring a valid ID with you. You will need to present it upon arrival.

When: 5 pm on 20 June
Where: AWS Office - Training Room, Level 13, PwC Tower, 15 Customs Street West · Auckland

Agenda
5:00 pm - Welcome & Networking
5:30 - Food & beverages
6:00 - Talk: “Serverless Disaster Recovery” / Dawn Cooper (Senior Software Engineer at Slack)
6:40 - Networking

Serverless Disaster Recovery
When a cloud provider has an outage, it typically takes a decent chunk of the Internet with it. This usually results in front-page headlines as large tech companies scramble to get their systems up and running again. The problem of business continuity in the cloud isn't well-solved; traditional DR processes are tailored to on-premises workloads. The answer to 'should we bring up our infrastructure in a different region before AWS manages to bring us-east-1 back up?' is, of course, 'It depends'.
Fortunately, when we're dealing with serverless solutions, we can leverage some inherent features of serverless architecture to make disaster recovery a lot less painful. Let's join ProductCorp as they build a cloud-native business continuity and disaster recovery plan for their serverless products; from the questions that the infrastructure teams ask to determine the scope of the plan, to all of the ways that their systems could fail, to the pager setup which will wake up their incident managers at 03:00 when us-east-1 inevitably goes down again.

Bio
Dawn likes to tinker with cloud infrastructure and security, and regularly goes down rabbit holes in a futile search for ways to develop systems that are both reliable and impenetrable. As well as accidental accessibility advocacy, Dawn can regularly be found sharing knowledge within the cloud infrastructure community.
Outside work, Dawn is an occasional author, kitchen alchemist, and raging sportsball fan.

We look forward to seeing you there!
Auckland AWS Tools and Programming team

How to find us:
Entry to the PWC building by the main entrance at Customs Street.
Go up by the escalators until the end. You will land at the Spectra cafe and PWC reception on the right. Take the lift to level 13

Code of Conduct
Auckland AWS Tools and Programming is committed to providing a friendly and welcoming space for everyone who attends our meetup events, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, age, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, religion (or lack thereof), or technology choices. Any form of harassment, racism, misogyny, or xenophobia is unacceptable. Participants violating these rules will be invited to leave the meetup.