The Twelve Clouds of Christmas - Year 12

It's our December tradition - a dozen (or more) 5 minute lightning demos/talks from the members of CloudAustin and the larger Austin technical community!

Thank you to our sponsors! Q2 is providing the venue, Liatrio is providing food, and Edge Delta is providing drinks and desserts for the attendees!

Speakers
Want to speak? Email (austin-cug-admin@googlegroups.com) or comment below with name and talk title to get on the list. Talks are OK, demos are better, and there is a strict 5-minute limit. Show off whatever you're working on! Anyone can speak, but no sales pitches please.

1. Rich Boyd - Operational Readiness Reviews in Five Minutes or Less
2. Sophia Parafina - Build Fast on AWS LightSail
3. Nathaniel Eliot - More Dakka: Hunt'n Jobz Like Da Orkz
4. Ruben Quinones - Improving code quality through Performance Driven Development
5. Ian Littman - Under the Hood at a 2500+ User Mastodon Server
6. Vishal P. - Supercharge Software Development by Coding in the Cloud
7. Allison Price - How OpenStack has become one of the most successful open source projects, powering over 40 million cores worldwide.
8. Paul DeJean - How Amazon charges you $300 to download a 4TB file
9. Brian A. - Using Crossplane with Terraform and AWS
10. Carl Perry - It's beginning to look a lot like RISC-mass: An Introduction to RISC-V
11. Pawan K. - State of Cloud Security - learnings from real world
12. Perry Statham - Observability Primitives

Sponsors
Want to sponsor? Super! For 12 Clouds we usually have lots, multiple food/treats, drinks, door prizes... Contact us, you bring it to the meeting, and we'll list you here and you get a 2 minute pitch. (We don't handle money).

Other Meetup Groups
Various other user groups will be joining us for this festive holiday celebration - if your local tech user group wants to just pile onto this instead of trying to schedule a meeting near the holidays are welcome to call this their official December meeting too, sure! Comment to the effect of "add in XX" below and then point your members to this invite! You can also post it on your own Meetup but please ask members to also RSVP here because this will have the correct meeting link when the time comes.

What's 12 Clouds?
You can see previous years' 12 Clouds lineups for
2020 (https://www.meetup.com/CloudAustin/events/pljpfrybcqbtb/)
2019 (https://www.meetup.com/CloudAustin/events/pljpfryzqbwb/),
2018 (https://www.meetup.com/CloudAustin/events/gxwbkpyxqbxb/),
2017 (https://www.meetup.com/CloudAustin/events/mzfzwnywqbzb/),
2016 (https://www.meetup.com/CloudAustin/events/qlldhhyvqbbc/),
2015 (https://www.meetup.com/CloudAustin/events/226373629/),
2014 (https://www.meetup.com/CloudAustin/events/212248062/),
2013 (https://www.meetup.com/CloudAustin/events/140828762/),
2012 (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/austin-cloud-user-group-meeting-december-18-2012-tickets-4922596619),
and 2011 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jX1BT9T2tcw).