April DJUG: Building Serverless Applications in AWS

The April DJUG meeting will be at Detroit Labs, 1520 Woodward Ave #500, Detroit, Michigan.

Topic: Building Serverless Applications with AWS

Building scalable applications using a serverless architecture is easier than you may think using the AWS Cloud. With the AWS SDKs and the AWS Serverless Framework you can easily build applications with popular frameworks like Spring, Angular, ASP.NET and more. In this talk, we’ll explorer how to build a serverless web application using the Amazon Web Services technologies of AWS Lambda, AWS API Gateway, the AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM), and Java.

Speaker Bio:

Our keynote speaker is Tara Walker, who is coming in from Atlanta, Georgia.

Tara is a Technical Evangelist for Amazon Web Services, dedicating her time to help developers build apps, games, and technical solutions in the AWS cloud. Tara has most recently been working on evangelizing AWS cloud computing architectures and development for various technologies like Mobile, Gaming, IoT, AI, Serverless just to name a few.

Tara’s background is as a software engineer & developer who has worked on wide-ranging development platforms and systems while leveraging a myriad of development languages across her various technical and engineering roles. Over her 20-year career, she has been employed by Microsoft, Turner Broadcasting/Time Warner, Georgia Pacific, and various other Fortune 500 companies.

She holds a Bachelor’s degree from Georgia State University, and currently working on her Master’s degree in Computer Science (MSCS) at Georgia Institute of Technology. Tara's passion is to continue spreading the “good news” to diverse audiences about a plethora of technologies, development languages, and frameworks with a focus and proficiency in:

o Cloud computing and Serverless architectures
o IoT (Internet of Things) development
o Mobile, Game, and Web development
o Artificial Intelligence services and frameworks
o NUI (Natural User Interfaces) & Biometric Interface service/development frameworks

You can find Tara on Twitter at @taraw.

Rundown:

6:30pm - Doors open. Pizza, beverages, and networking.
7:00pm - Opening Remarks, Industry News, Peer Review, and Jobs in Java.
7:10pm - Main presentation (60 mins approx. with Q&A)
8:30pm - Lights out.