July - Doing 'cloud' correctly will cost you less

Welcome to July's edition of AWS User Group Leeds!

This meetup is kindly sponsored by BJSS, who will be providing the venue, food and drink.

We have two great talks lined up for you:

Why you are using Lambda wrong: comparing monolithic vs microservice architectures for AWS API workloads
Aiden Vaines, Principal Technologist at BJSS
Daniel Yip, Software Engineer at BJSS

Clickbait titles aside; some experimentation and recap of common microservice architectural decisions we’ve seen teams and engineers making. Some consciously and some without realising the alternative approaches.
We’ll cover some of those misconceptions and the results of a small scale experimentation we conducted with some results we found interesting.

DevOps on a budget - my journey of migrating to AWS with a 2k budget
Ethan Sumner, Principal Consultant at Contino & organiser of Yorkshire DevOps

Ethan will discuss how to create a DevOps mindset and adoption of DevOps tools and principles in an SME or Startup using Open source, FinOps and the cloud, showcasing just how far you can go on a budget and how accessible DevOps is to everyone, no matter the size of your organisation. Utilising past experience leading a DevOps transformation for an SME on a strict budget, technical debt and resistant leadership, this talk contains first-hand experience on just how powerful adopting DevOps is.

Schedule (subject to timings)
17:45 - 18:00: Doors open - turn up, meet people, grab a drink.
18:00 - 18:30: Pizza arrives, more time for people to turn up - please arrive by 18:30 or you may not be able to get in!
18:30 onwards: Talk 1 - 'Why you are using Lambda wrong...'
19:15-ish: break time - an opportunity to chat, grab a drink, etc
19:45-ish: Talk 2 - 'DevOps on a budget'
20:30 onwards: Continue the conversation over drinks at the Brew Society pub, which is round the corner on Aire Street

Where
BJSS, Ground Floor, 1 Whitehall Quay, Leeds LS1 4HR
A short walk from Leeds train station - head west down Aire Street, and it is on the left - you'll see the big 'bjss' sign in the window!

Food and Drink
We’ll be providing a range of drinks, both alcoholic and non-alcoholic, at the venue, from BJSS, our sponsors for this event.

Food will be in the form of pizza - please let us know if you have any specific dietary requirements prior to the day and we will endeavour to meet your needs.

Code of Conduct
Like a large number of other communities, we have an anti harassment policy and code of conduct, in order to support the inclusive nature of our events. Please view here. It is necessary for all attendees, speakers, sponsors and volunteers at any AWS User Group Leeds event to agree with the code of conduct.

Helping with diversity and inclusivity
The organising team for AWS User Group Leeds are keen to promote diversity and inclusivity, in terms of speakers, how events are run, and the composition of the organising team. If you would like to contribute to this aim, particularly if you think you have experiences that you might not consider to be typical for the majority of the tech community, we would be really excited to talk with you at the event.