Melbourne Serverless Meetup Group event for February 2023

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NOTE- change in Location for this month!!
Venue: Contino, Level 37, 360 Elizabeth St. Melbourne (this is the Melbourne Central tower probably best to enter from the Elizabeth st entrance)
Look for the signs! If the lifts are closed - there will be a phone number to call.

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We are back for 2023! We have you had a relaxing festive season and have digested all the serverless goodness that was announced at re:Invent 2022!

Small advertisement: ServerlessDays ANZ is running on March 10! We have some terrific speakers talking all things Serverless, and there is something for everyone. Early bird tickets are available until 7th Feb. Get your ticket here: https://anz.serverlessdays.io/

Welcome to the Melbourne Serverless Meetup Group event for February 2023!

📅 Agenda 📅

5:30 PM - Doors Open!
6:00 PM - Welcome from the organizers / housekeeping
6:05 PM - "Serverless disaster recovery" by Dawn
Description:
When a cloud provider has an outage, it typically takes a decent chunk of the Internet with it. This usually results in front-page headlines as large tech companies scramble to get their systems up and running again. The problem of business continuity in the cloud isn't well-solved; traditional DR processes are tailored to on-premises workloads. The answer to 'should we bring up our infrastructure in a different region before AWS manages to bring us-east-1 back up?' is, of course, 'It depends'.

Fortunately, when we're dealing with serverless solutions, we can leverage some inherent features of serverless architecture to make disaster recovery a lot less painful. Let's join ProductCorp as they build a cloud-native business continuity and disaster recovery plan for their serverless products; from the questions that the infrastructure teams ask to determine the scope of the plan, to all of the ways that their systems could fail, to the pager setup which will wake up their incident managers at 03:00 when us-east-1 inevitably goes down again.

6:35 PM - Food and mingling

7:10 PM - "All the cool stuff from re:Invent (aka a Serverless re:Cap)" by Arjen Schwarz

Description:
In this talk, Arjen will take us all through the shiny new serverless toys that re:Invent brought us in 2022. This will include some of the announcements from pre:Invent and maybe a discussion or two about when something is actually serverless and when it should just be called a service.

7:45 PM - Finish the food and further networking and discussions.
8:00 PM - Door Close, see you next time!

Bios

Dawn:
Dawn likes to tinker with cloud infrastructure and security, and regularly goes down rabbit holes in a futile search for ways to develop systems that are both reliable and impenetrable. As well as accidental accessibility advocacy, Dawn can regularly be found sharing knowledge within the Melbourne cloud infrastructure and DevOps communities.
Outside work, Dawn is an occasional author, kitchen alchemist, and raging sportsball fan.

Arjen:
Arjen Schwarz is originally from the Netherlands, but on a trip around the world decided that Melbourne was the place for him. Since coming there he's become involved with all things AWS and runs the Melbourne AWS User Group, is an AWS Ambassador, and works as Principal Consultant at CMD Solutions. Outside of work he has come to realise that everything he does is dictated by a toddler but still at times pretends he has a say in matters.