AWS User Group - Kenya

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Date & Time: Thursday, October 29, 2026 | 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Venue: KCA University (Main Campus, Ruaraka)
Snacks: 🍕 Pizza + Refreshments Provided

### Event Overview

Welcome to Kiro Nights—a brand-new community-led meetup series launching across EMEA!
Kiro is the agentic AI IDE that redefines software engineering through spec-driven development. Instead of standard chat prompts or throwaway code, Kiro translates your ideas into structured requirements, architectural specs, task lists, and testable code.
Join us (with SBG KCA) at KCA University for an evening of live coding, collaboration, and agentic AI exploration on AWS.

### What to Expect

• 💡 Demystifying Kiro: Understand how spec-driven agentic IDEs differ from traditional AI coding assistants.
• 🛠️ Hands-on Building: Experience Kiro in action—generating technical specs, planning architectures, and executing multi-step tasks.
• 🤝 Peer Collaboration: Work alongside fellow developers, experiment with steering files/custom prompts, and test Kiro on real projects.
• 🍕 Pizza & Networking: Connect with local cloud engineers, software developers, and community builders.

### Who Should Attend?

• Software Engineers & Developers aiming to elevate their developer workflows with autonomous coding agents.
• Cloud & DevOps Enthusiasts curious about spec-driven engineering on AWS.
• KCA University Students & Tech Community interested in modern developer tooling.

### Prerequisites & Preparation

1. Bring a charged laptop with your standard developer environment installed.
2. Set up Kiro beforehand to jump straight into the hands-on building segment.

RSVP today to reserve your spot and your slice of pizza!

### Event Overview

Serverless computing has transformed how we deploy applications, yet many teams still overspend on dedicated servers or complex container orchestration platforms.
In this practical, hands-on session, you will learn how to package application workloads into Open Container Initiative (OCI) compliant containers and deploy them directly onto AWS Lambda. By marrying the deployment flexibility of Docker and OCI standards with the pay-per-use efficiency of serverless execution, you can dramatically simplify your infrastructure while slashing operational costs.

### What We Will Cover

• OCI Specification Foundations: How Docker images map seamlessly to OCI standards and AWS Lambda’s container runtime.
• Hands-on Container Deployment: Step-by-step walkthrough of packaging and running real-world workloads on Lambda.
• Cost Optimization Strategies:
• Image Slimming: Techniques to minimize container size for faster deployments.
• Cold Start Mitigation: Architectural patterns to minimize latency overhead.
• Workload Profiling: Tuning memory and execution time to maximize Lambda’s pay-per-use pricing model.