Build It: DevOps & AWS Deployment

Build It. Ship It. Secure It. — Session 2: Ship It.
DevOps & AWS Deployment · Tonight, Sunday March 15 · 9:30PM · Online via Zoom
This is session 2 of a 3-part live series. One API — built last Thursday, deployed to AWS tonight, secured on Tuesday. Three engineers. Three careers. One complete picture of how software actually reaches production.
Tonight belongs to DevOps.
The problem this session solves:
Every developer hits it eventually. The code runs perfectly locally — then breaks on a teammate's machine, crashes on the server, or behaves completely differently in production. It's not bad luck. It's a fundamental gap between writing code and running code, and an entire engineering discipline exists to close it.
That discipline is DevOps. And tonight, Fares ElDesouky (DevOps Engineer @ VOIS) shows exactly what it looks like in practice.
🐳 Docker & containers — what they are, why they exist, and how a Dockerfile is written live from scratch. The shipping container analogy that finally makes it click.
☁️ Cloud computing & serverless — what "deployed to AWS" actually means, what serverless is, and why AWS Lambda fits our use case perfectly.
⚡ Live deployment — the Talk 1 FastAPI service gets containerized, pushed to AWS Lambda, and given a public URL. Live. On screen.
🔐 Security preview — the API key gets moved out of the source code into Lambda environment variables. Talk 3 takes this further.
💼 DevOps career roadmap — the honest learning path (Linux → networking → Docker → AWS → IaC → CI/CD), which certifications matter and why, and how students break into DevOps roles when cloud experience is genuinely rare.
Session 1 (Build It — Backend Engineering) ran last Thursday. Session 3 (Secure It — Security Engineering) follows Tuesday. Tonight's session stands completely on its own — but follow all three and you'll have watched a real product go from zero to deployed to secured, end to end.
Free. Online. Tonight.
📅 Session 2 — Ship It: Tonight, Sunday March 15 · 9:30PM
📅 Session 3 — Secure It: Tuesday, March 17 · 9:30PM
📍 Online — Zoom