ACCU York

🕡 Doors open 18:30
Bit different this time, no talk/workshop, a pure social event.
It is summer after all ☀️ there will be board games 🎲 and chatting

🕡 Doors open 18:30
📋 Intro and admin 18:50
🗣️ Talk by Greg Law (🕖 start at 19:00)
Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. With the new generation of time travelling debuggers it doesn't have to be that way! Time travel lets you see exactly what your program did: full memory + registers for every line that executed. There are open-source and commercial products available today for C++ that work with code at scale.

🍕 Food will be provided, let us know if you have dietary requirements
🔗 Finish off with Q&A, networking, and 🍻
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About the speaker: Greg Law
Greg is the founder of Undo. He is a coder at heart, but likes to bridge the gap between the business and software worlds.

Greg has 20 years’ experience in the software industry and has held development and management roles at companies including the pioneering British computer firm Acorn, as well as fast-growing start ups, NexWave and Solarflare. Greg has overseen the company as it transitioned from his garden shed to a scaling, award-winning business.

🕡 Doors open 18:30
📋 Intro and admin 18:50
🗣️ Talk by Paul Grenyer (🕖 start at 19:00)
From Zero to Deployed: Building and Shipping an AWS Lambda with TypeScript, Terraform & GitHub Actions

Ever wanted to build a serverless function, but felt there was too much boilerplate to write before it gets interesting? In this talk, we’ll walk through creating an AWS Lambda from scratch, using TypeScript, and show just how clean, fast, and repeatable deployment can be when using Terraform for infrastructure and GitHub Actions for deployment.

This practical demonstration will cover:

* Writing and packaging a simple TypeScript Lambda
* Defining and provisioning AWS infrastructure with Terraform
* Automating deployment with GitHub Actions
* Things I’ve learnt using Lambdas

And all in the space of an hour.

Whether you’re new to AWS or just looking to try serverless, this talk will leave you knowing how to ship robust, serverless functions quickly and reliably, with everything under version control.

🔗 Finish off with Q&A, networking, and 🍻
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About the speaker: Paul Grenyer
Husband, father, software engineer, metaller, Paul has been writing software for over 35 years and professionally for more than 20. In that time he has worked for and in all sorts of companies from two man startups to world famous investment banks and insurance companies. He has built and run three limited companies, none of which made him a millionaire and two of which threatened his sanity on more than one occasion.

Paul was a founding member of both SyncNorwich and Norfolk Developers, two of the most successful tech and startup based community groups in the East. He created and chaired the hugely successful Norfolk Developers Conference (nor(DEV):con) for seven years bringing in speakers and delegates in the sphere of software engineering from around the globe.

Paul is currently a Senior Software Engineer at Bourne Leisure, the owners of Haven caravan parks. He loathes the word Entrepreneur, not least because he struggles to spell it and it reminds him of Del Boy from the 80s sitcom Only Fools and Horses. He sees Entrepreneurship as a side effect of the creative process of problem solving, rather than a career path in its own right.

Despite having dealt with the world of business from directors of the board down, Paul has kept both feet firmly on the ground even when his head has been in the clouds with healthy doses of Heavy Metal, Science Fiction and Formula One and long hair until it started falling out in 2013.