How not to start a side hustle on AWS

📖 Abstract 📖
This session covers both technical and soft skills required to create and run a side hustle on AWS. It is a postmortem on WarpURL , a product Rehan attempted to side hustle and failed. I will share some of my knowledge and experience on what it takes to side hustle.

There will ofcourse be AWS talk as the product was built serverlessly with the AWS CDK, we will cover:

• Lambda and Lambda@Edge functions that we use for compute .
• DynamoDB & DynamoDB Global Tables (12 regions) used as a database.
• Cognito Pool for user management.
• API Gateway.
• S3 buckets for storage.
• SQS for queueing.
• Lousy code :) as we do some code dives

Some soft skills topics will include:

• Building in Public
• Payment for South Africans wanting to bill in USD
• Marketing
• Everything else required to get to production

🎚️ Level 🎚️
Beginner - Intermediate

📢 Speaker📢
Rehan van der Merwe, Technical Head Of Innovation at Swipe iX.

Rehan turns an unhealthy amount of coffee into outcomes by delivering value beyond code. He is a passionate multilingual developer and architect focusing on AWS, Serverless and all that AWS has to offer.

He is also an AWS Community Hero in South Africa and organizes the AWS meetups in South Africa.

• LinkedIn
• Twitter

🎉 Sponsors 🎉

• Swipe iX: Innovative and Scalable Cloud Computing Solutions. https://www.swipeix.com, check out our open careers.

🎁 Swag 🎁
2 x $25 AWS Credits (lucky draw)

🏚️ Venue 🏚️
Online Zoom Meeting. Get the link by RSVP of yes.

✏️ Requirements ✏️
Free, no requirements, come as you are.

⏳ Agenda ⏳
18:40 - 19:00 🌍 Socializing & networking for those that want to participate
19:00 - 19:40 ☁️ Presentation
19:40 - 20:00 🙋 Questions & 💲 lucky draw