Sydney Serverless - October Edition

Hi All, this month we are at Lumify Group, Level 24, 477 Pitt St, Haymarket!

🏠 Platform Host: https://www.youtube.com/ServerlessDaysANZ
🍕 Food and Drink: Lumify Group https://www.lumifywork.com/

Schedule:
- 5pm: doors open
- 5.30pm: announcements and welcome
- 5.40pm: 1st Talk
- 6.10pm: 2nd Talk
- 6.40pm: Networking
- 7.10pm: doors close

Speakers:
🎤 Peter Hanssens, Principal at Cloud Shuttle, AWS Serverless Hero
Talk Title: tRPC is going to change your world!
Talk Summary: Let's face it, GraphQL isn't great! Nor are a bunch of managed service offerings for it... there's just a lot of code duplication - sure you can synthesise things but why? Enter tRPC (with some help from Zod)... it's going to change your world!
Speaker Bio: Peter runs a cloud consultancy called Cloud Shuttle and is an AWS Serverless Hero. In his spare time, he runs meetups and conferences and also coaches his son's u7s soccer team.

🎤 Daniela Miao, Cofounder and CTO, Momento
Talk Title: Supercharge DynamoDB using Vector Indexes
Talk Summary: DynamoDB scales!!!! and while it is great for key-value (and some secondary indexes), customers still often connect DynamoDB to OpenSearch / ElasticSearch to get meaningfully richer indexing across all of their attributes. These indexes are really powerful: suddenly, almost every attribute in your DynamoDB table can become query-able! But now, we can do even better by building a vector index on DynamoDB.

In this talk, Daniela will walk through how to connect DynamoDB Streams to Momento Vector Index to instantly index your DynamoDB table. She will go over a sample application with a movies database to demo how powerful vector searches can be - and then show you how simple the code is to get it all up and running in production.

Speaker Bio: Daniela Miao is the Co-Founder and CTO at Momento, a fully serverless data platform with caching, pub/sub and vector indexing. Previously, she led Platform Engineering at Lightstep, where she launched their new Metrics Product. She was also tech lead at AWS DynamoDB, and released cross-region replication. Daniela has spoken at many events including re:Invent, QCon, and Kubecon. At Momento, she works on distributed system performance, observability, security, and the intersection of engineering with business.

Remember to bring along some great questions!