Feb 6th, 2018 - 'Developer Tools Special' - featuring Abby Fuller & Friends

AWS COMMUNITY LIVE THEME: DEVELOPER TOOLS

FEATURING:

• ABBY FULLER, AWS
• DAN PITMAN, ALERT LOGIC
• ORI RAFAEL, UPSOLVER
• OISIN DE CONDUIN
• ADAM ZEGELIN, INSTACLUSTR.
• GARRY BARCOE, STELFOX

February 6th 2018 at the Button Factory, Dublin, Ireland.

Kick Off 5:45PM! Be early or be beerless!

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SPEAKER 1

Our first guest speaker is Ori Rafael CEO of UPSOLVER (http://www.upsolver.com/) who will tell us about his company Upsolver before deep-diving into In-memory Data Preparation & AWS Athena (https://aws.amazon.com/athena/

Title: Data Preparation for Amazon Athena, Done In Minutes.

Agenda: There are many advantages to using Amazon Athena for big data analytics, however the data preparation can be quite complex and take weeks or months to complete. In this talk, we will review the challenges of preparing data for Amazon Athena and demonstrate how Upsolver facilitates it in a matter of minutes.

About Upsolver: Upsolver is an In-Memory Data Preparation Platform. It removes the complexity from Big Data and Real-Time projects and shortens their implementation time from weeks/months to several hours, literally.

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SPEAKER 2 - DAN PITMAN, Senior Solutions Architect, Alert Logic

SECURITY & DEVOPS: Agility and Teamwork In this session, you learn pragmatic steps to integrate security controls into DevOps processes in your AWS environment at scale. Learn about reshaping the Security/Dev/Ops relationship utilising a Blueprint driven approach. Dan will give us an overview of the Cloud Security Maturity Model (CSMM) & two new integrated security solutions: Amazon GuardDuty™ and Alert Logic Cloud Insight™ Essentials. You will learn...

• Quickly attaining complete visibility of your cloud environment
• Identifying unexpected and malicious activity through Amazon GuardDuty
• Transforming security findings into action ***************

SPEAKER 3 DeepLens Demo by Oisin De Conduin.

AWS DeepLens was announced at re:Invent 2017. It is a video camera that runs deep learning models directly on the device (using Greengrass). This presentation will show how to deploy an object recognition neural network from Sagemaker to the Deeplens device. Then we can use Lambda and AWS IoT to trigger events based on the different objects detected. The deep integration with the AWS ecosystem makes it very easy to get up and running with DeepLens and deep learning algorithms.

Oisin De Conduin is a Solutions Architect with an AWS Consulting Partner in Dublin.

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SPEAKER 4 'THE POWER OF OPEN SOURCE' - Adam Zegelin (Co-founder, INSTACLUSTR) This talk provides a detailed comparison between open source Apache Cassandra managed and proprietary technologies. The aim is to highlight the operational and cost benefits associated with deploying open source Apache Cassandra and other data management technologies including Apache Spark. This talk will also discuss the modern business approach to open source and enterprise software deployment and the pitfalls associated with technology lock in.

You will discover:

• How to make smart use of open source software
• Why Cassandra is a smart business decision
• How to ensure your applications run smoothly on Cassandra
• Why open source is the new norm
• How to leverage the power of the open source community

INSTACLUSTR offers managed solutions for Apache Cassandra, ScyllaDB, Elasticsearch, Apache Spark, Apache Zeppelin, Kibana and Apache Lucene. As Instaclustr's founding software engineer, Adam provides the foundation knowledge of Instaclustr's capability and engineering environment. Adam is also focused on providing Instaclustr's contribution to the broader open source community on which the company's products and services rely, including Apache Cassandra, Apache Spark and other technologies such as CoreOS and Docker. Prior to founding Instaclustr, Adam worked on large-scale big data projects with Australian government agencies.