AWS Usergroup Dublin MeetUp #12

Thanks to Sponsors:

Infinity SDC - The London Data Centre Experts (http://www.infinitysdc.com)

Terra Alto (http://www.terraalto.com)

O'Hara's Brewery - Carlow (http://www.carlowbrewing.com/)

AWS Dublin usergroup is delighted to welcome our new supporter O'Hara's who have kindly made 100 bottles of Irish Pale Ale available to the first 100 members who attend - so get there early!

Agenda:

17:45 – Doors Open / Registration / Networking / Grab an O'Hara's IPA & Swag

18.00 – START - AWS Dublin User Group

Intro to Speakers & Sponsors with Jason O'Conaill

18.10: Ian Massingham from AWS (https://aws.amazon.com/)

What's new from AWS. Update from the world of AWS and recent technology developments. This is a must attend presentation for those working and innovating with AWS.

18:35: Adrian Trenaman & Graham Rhodes - Gilt (http://www.gilt.com)

After a number years experience and multiple attempts at determining the best way to deploy our web applications and services to AWS, we've settled on a lightweight set of tools wrapping Cloud Formation, CodeDeploy and Docker that supports sandbox, dark canary, canary and production deployment at Gilt. In this talk I'll give a detailed overview of where we've landed

Adrian is an experienced, outspoken software engineer, communicator and leader with over 20 years of experience working with teams throughout Europe, US and
Asia in diverse industries such as financial services, telecoms, retail, and manufacturing.

He has a strong specialization in high performance middleware, messaging and application development, and is pragmatic, hard-working, collaborative and results-oriented. In the past, he has held the positions of
CTO of Gilt Japan, Tech Lead at Gilt Groupe Ireland, Distinguished Consultant at FuseSource, Progress Software and IONA Technologies, and Lecturer at the
National University of Ireland in Maynooth. He became a committer for the Apache Software Foundation in 2010, has acted as an expert reviewer to the European Commission, and has spoken at numerous Tech events.

Adrian holds a Ph.D, Computer Science from the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, a Diploma in Business Development from the Irish Management Institute, and a BA (Mod. Hons) Computer Science from Trinity College, Dublin.

19:00 Networking break - Drinks & Food

19:30 JP Hayes from Terra Alto (http://www.terraalto.com)

The silence of the Lambda - automate Windows AMI updates to stop the screaming

TerraAlto are a Dublin based AWS Advanced Consulting Partner, who as a team of Technical Consultants have been working with Amazon Web Services since 2011

19:50 Brian Murray from Fineos (http://www.fineos.com)

Building a hosted offering for bricks & mortar customers (aka Using AWS without the cool new toys)”.

Brian will discuss as much as we all want to use all of the latest features released by AWS, a lot of companies are still operating on a much more basic level. Providing enterprises with an alternative to an on-premises deployment, and getting the basics right, still requires a lot of thought.

20:25: prize giving and networking - job hunting and connecting with fellow enthusiasts

21:00: ENDS