AWS User Group Cologne - April Edition

AWS User Group Cologne, virtual meetup on Thursday, April 21st 2022, 6:00 pm / 18:00 CET – presented by StormForge. With talks by Cloud Engineer Nora Schöner ("Infrastructure as Code with Terraform") and AWS Cloud Developer John Nguyen ("How CDK made me a better Typescript developer").

Nora Schöner: Infrastructure as Code with Terraform
Being able to script my infrastructure is an awesome feature I don’t want to miss anymore. Over two years ago I started with Terraform and I’m still in love, but run through some pain points, as well.
In this session I want to give you an introduction to scripting your infrastructure with Terraform, talking about best practices as well as tips and tricks and what I like and don’t like. I’ll mainly focus on deploying infrastructure to AWS, but Terraform can be used for multiple providers.
So let’s explore together how far we can go with IaC - Infrastructure as Code.
This session requires at least a basic understanding of Cloud Computing.

About Nora
Nora Schöner, a German based Cloud Engineer, has been working in the tech industry since 2012. Among other things, she focuses on Cloud Computing and DevOps. You can find her mainly working with Amazon Web Services. Currently Nora works at Codecamp:N, a Startup based in Nuremberg, providing and maintaining the infrastructure of one of the projects challenging digital personal provision. Since this year she shares her knowledge and experiences through her German tech blog.

Meet Nora:
Website: https://wolkencode.de/
Twitter: @wolkencode

John Nguyen: How CDK made me a better Typescript developer
AWS CDK is an Infrastructure to Code framework which gives an architect the possibility to define cloud application resources by a high-level programming language such as Python, Java, or Typescript. Usually, you should have experience in a particular language in order to use a framework such as CDK. But since I was already experienced in Cloudformation, it was the other way round and I learned Typescript by setting up a CDK project. In this talk, I would like to show you the power of Typescript when using CDK.

About John
John Nguyen is AWS certified and from Berlin. He is currently working as a Cloud Engineer at kreuzwerker. John has been using AWS for almost three years with a focus on Serverless. When he's not coding, he enjoys running and traveling.

Meet John:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-long-nguyen-256457111/
Twitter: @jolodevguru
Github: https://github.com/jolo-dev
Website: https://jolodev.guru/