Test, Deploy and Ship

For something a bit different, this month we welcome Paul Grenyer, who'll talk to us about deploying and shipping on AWS Lambda. We also have Phil Nash talking about Testing and AI. Fun fact: Paul and Phil have worked together for at least two separate companies.

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Here's the approximate schedule:

18:30 Doors open

19:00 "Intro and news" - Anthony Peacock

19:10 "Testing in an Age of AI" - Phil Nash

After years of advocating for TDD and good testing practices (not to mention writing a test framework or two), Phil asks the question, "does any of that even matter any more?" - and if it does, what does that look like and how can we be most effective?

19:40 break

20:00 "From Zero to Deployed: Building and Shipping an AWS Lambda with TypeScript, Terraform & GitHub Actions - Paul Grenyer

Ever wanted to build a serverless function, but felt there was too much boilerplate to write before it gets interesting? In this talk, we’ll walk through creating an AWS Lambda from scratch, using TypeScript, and show just how clean, fast, and repeatable deployment can be when using Terraform for infrastructure and GitHub Actions for deployment.
This practical demonstration will cover:

- Writing and packaging a simple TypeScript Lambda
- Defining and provisioning AWS infrastructure with Terraform
- Automating deployment with GitHub Actions
- Things I’ve learnt using Lambdas

And all in the space of an hour.
Whether you’re new to AWS or just looking to try serverless, this talk will leave you knowing how to ship robust, serverless functions quickly and reliably, with everything under version control.

21:00 Conclusion, and moving on somewhere else

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About the speakers
Paul is a husband, father, software engineer and metaller. He has been writing software for over 40 years and professionally for more than 25. In that time he has worked for, and in, all sorts of companies from two man startups to world famous investment banks and insurance companies. He has built and run three limited companies, none of which made him a millionaire and two of which threatened his sanity on more than one occasion.

He was a founding member of both SyncNorwich and Norfolk Developers, two of the most successful tech and startup community groups in the East of England. He created and chaired the hugely successful Norfolk Developers Conference (nor(DEV):con) for seven years bringing in speakers and delegates in the sphere of software engineering from around the globe.

He is currently a Software Engineering Team Lead at Bourne Leisure, the owners of Haven holiday parks. He loathes the word Entrepreneur, not least because he struggles to spell it and it reminds him of Del Boy from the 80s sitcom Only Fools and Horses. He sees Entrepreneurship as a side effect of the creative process of problem solving, rather than a career path in its own right.

Despite having dealt with the world of business from directors of the board down, He has kept both feet firmly on the ground, even when his head has been in the clouds, with healthy doses of Heavy Metal, Science Fiction and Formula One and long hair until it started falling out in 2013.

Now he can add author to the mix, having written his first book, So You Think You Can Lead a Team?, based on 25 years of lessons, mistakes, and unexpected leadership journeys.

Oh, and he loves good tea too!

Phil is the original author of the C++ test framework, Catch2 and other open source libraries - including the, as yet unreleased, Catch23!

A Senior Software Engineer at Bloomberg he has had a career that spans finance, mobile and software security, with a diversion into Developer Advocacy at JetBrains, Sonar and Undo.

He's also a member of the ISO C++ standards committee, organiser of C++ London as well as former co-host and producer of CppCast, cpp.chat and No Diagnostic Required.