Berlin AWS User Group Meetup - February 2024

Dear all,

January was a blast, we had amazing talks on the meetup and delivered a Big Data workshop. It will be hard to beat, but we will try by bringing two new talks in a venue hosted by Shiftmove.

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The evening

18:30 - Warming up and networking chat
18:45 - Welcome talk

19:00 - 19:45 - Renato Losio // Balancing Acts: A Developer’s Journey with RDS

The era when a web application could only choose RDS for MySQL as a relational database on AWS is long gone. Today, an array of engines and deployment options, including RDS, Aurora, and serverless choices, is available. AWS provides many managed databases, each offering multiple options, pricing models, and deployment patterns: how does one strike a balance between maintaining a simple architecture and succumbing to FOMO (Fear of Missing Out)? When is it beneficial to use a serverless option? We will conclude with a simple unconventional demo.

About Renato: Renato has extensive experience as a cloud architect, tech lead, and cloud services specialist. Currently, he lives between Trieste and Berlin and works remotely as a principal cloud architect. His primary areas of interest include cloud services and relational databases. He is an editor at InfoQ and a recognized AWS Data Hero.

19:45 - 20:15 - Short break with snacks and drinks

20:15 - 21:00 - Johannes Langer & Miha Zeleznikar // How Deutsche Bahn Uses MLOps on Amazon SageMaker to Stay Ahead of Fraudsters

Deutsche Bahn, the German national railway company, is the second-largest transport company in the world and the largest railway operator and infrastructure owner in Europe. Annually, the company sells over 100 million tickets online and has prioritised not only preventing fraud, but also ensuring explainability and ethical use of AI in its processes. By training and deploying machine learning models through Amazon SageMaker, Deutsche Bahn built a solution that is both effective and scalable while ensuring the security of their ticket transactions. Join us to learn how Deutsche Bahn has implemented their fraud prevention solution leveraging MLOps practices on Amazon SageMaker to serve 300k transactions per day in under 250ms.

About Johannes: Johannes is a Senior Solutions Architect at AWS, working with enterprise customers in Germany. Johannes is passionate about applying machine learning to solve real business problems. In his personal life, Johannes enjoys working on home improvement projects and spending time outdoors with his family.
About Miha: Miha is Lead Enterprise Architect at DB Systel. He specializes in leveraging the power of machine learning to drive innovation and efficiency across the organization. With a keen focus on building robust, scalable cloud solutions, his work centers on transforming complex business challenges into actionable data-driven strategies.

21:00 - 21:15 Closing Announcements

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