The Twelve Clouds of Christmas - Year 13

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!
• IBM watsonx is providing food!
• Civo is providing non-alcoholic drinks and cookies!
• (And this could be your company! More info below.)

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. David L - Adventures in S3-land
2. Mohinish S - How to build streaming applications within less than 5 minutes
3. Joseph - Deck the Halls with Data: Streamlining Cloud Admin with Streamlit Magic
4. Moe - 12 types of stream processing application
5. Karl K. - Here's where to look for hidden AWS costs to cut
6. Cory Kim - demo of a Retrieval-Augmented GenAI (RAG) Model hosted using AWS services
7. Peco K - Demo Cloudwatch storybooks with PQL
8. W. Watson - K8s Open Source 5g Node Demo in 5 minutes
9. Paul D. - Lower AWS bill with spot instances and Attribute Based Instance Type Selection
10. Mitesh S - GoCloudz CPQ
11. Evan N - Adding Security Checks to your Playwright E2E tests
12. JJ Asghar - You say you can exit `vim`, have you ever tried exiting `ed` instead?
13. Perry Statham - Why I'm a Chromebook Convert
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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).

The More the Merrier
We will be joined this year be the great folks in these communities:

• Austin DevOps
• Austin OpenInfra User Group
• Austin Automation Professionals
• Austin Postgres

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
2022 (https://www.meetup.com/cloudaustin/events/287021766/)
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).