AWS Community Day Amsterdam 2022

We're happy to announce the third edition of AWS Community Day in Amsterdam!

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Want to sponsor the event? Let me know: martijn@awsug.nl. We're looking for additional sponsors for food, drinks and maybe a larger venue.

Agenda at a glance
17:30 Doors open
18:45 Sessions
20:00 Short Break
20:10 Sessions
21:15 Networking
22:00 End

Sessions

Best practices to design your events in event-driven applications
Dave Boyne, Amazon Web Services
Events are at the core of any event-driven application as they help us reduce coupling between systems and increase the speed of teams. Event design plays an important part of how your distributed architecture is built, scales and remains fault tolerant. In this session you will learn the emerging best practices for event design with Amazon EventBridge, the importance of event design up front and how your event structure can impact your architecture.

20 ways event-driven architectures can improve your development process
James Beswick, Amazon Web Services
In this fast-paced session, I'll show 20 ways that event-driven architectures can improve your experience of developing applications. Whether you build for a startup or an enterprise, or work by yourself or in a team, using events to model and build your workloads can be a transformative experience. By the end of this session, you'll see how you can start take advantage of EDA to accelerate development.

Serverless at Stedi - Learnings and Best Practices
Marek Kuczynski, Stedi
In this talk, Marek will share his best practices for designing and operating serverless workloads at scale. You will learn how Stedi designed it’s business critical services to become multi region and how the company ensures the cost and performance of the workloads is optimised on a continuous basis.

User-driven Composable Infrastructure with CDK, Step Functions and CodeBuild
Luc van Donkersgood, PostNL | AWS Serverless Hero
The AWS CDK allows us to define cloud infrastructure in full-fledged programming languages. This opens the door for new, powerful integrations. In this talk we'll demonstrate a PostNL self-service portal which deploys infrastructure on demand, using SQS, Step Functions, CodeBuild and of course, the CDK.

Event-driven high-performance dashboards with DynamoDB materialized views and Kotlin Lambda
Elena van Engelen, PostNL
The PostNL Mission Control Platform is responsible for aggregating large volumes of IoT event data into highly performant real time views. In this talk we will demonstrate the challenges we faced and choices we made along our serverless journey. The solutions we will present include analytics data in DynamoDB, Materialized Views, DynamoDB Streams, Lambda Functions written in Kotlin, AppSync and EventBridge.

Is Serverless Too Hard?
Matt Coulter, Liberty Mutual | AWS DevTools Hero
We often hear the tagline that serverless is easy, just focus on business value. As an experienced Serverless Architect who has worked with dozens of teams over the past few years let me walk you through how I see the Serverless Developer Experience in 2022 and my thoughts for how we can improve going forward.