Jackson Area Web & App Developers Meetup @ C Spire

LOCATION: C Spire, 1018 Highland Colony Pkwy, Ridgeland, Mississippi 39157

IMPORTANT NOTE: Enter through the main lobby on the north side of the building, then take the elevator to the 6th floor.

C Spire is an alcohol-free campus.

Sponsors: C Spire, JetBrains & J.C. Hiatt

Want to sponsor? Read our sponsorship info here.

Check out our website: https://jacksondevs.tech/
Get updates on Twitter: @jacksondevs

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5:30 pm- 6:00 pm: Complimentary drinks, food, and socializing

6:00 pm- 6:30 pm: Intro, announcements, and general discussion

6:30 pm - 7:30 pm: Hunter Lovvorn - Build & Deploy a Free, Serverless AWS Web Application - WORKSHOP

Confused on where to even start on AWS? Don’t worry, everyone starts there. In this workshop, we will walk through the process of taking a newly created AWS account and leveraging AWS’s homemade infrastructure-as-code framework to create our infrastructure quickly! The CDK code, web app, and supporting ‘back-end’ have all been created for you. We will simply walk through the process of setting it up on your own account from start to finish, with many stops along the way to fill in the blanks on what services are used and how they fit together. This will be a high-level overview with much of the content coming from questions and discussion.

Required Hardware:

1. A laptop with either WiFi or ethernet connection.
2. An up-to-date web browser. According to AWS, it must be Chrome, Firefox, or Edge (3 latest versions) or Safari for macOS (2 latest versions)
3. Admin/root privileges are not required

Prerequisites:

1. Create an AWS account. If you already have one, I suggest creating a new one using a different email and credit card. While we will be leveraging free tier resources, a valid card will need to be used during account set up.
2. Create a GitHub account. If you do not already have one, create a GitHub account. The repository being cloned is hosted on GitHub. Once forked, we will also be using GitHub actions to build and deploy our application.

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Wanna speak? Get in touch! We are looking for two speakers for our upcoming meeting.

Call 601-919-6935 if you have any issues finding us!