AWS & Skyscanner Tech Talk

Come along to hear Technical Account Managers (TAMs) and Skyscanner engineers talk about running Kubernetes at scale in AWS!

This event will feature two AWSome Tech Talks by TAMs from AWS Enterprise Support team, and a senior Skyscanner engineer. Find out more details about how Skyscanner runs one of the biggest Kubernetes production setups in AWS. Come and chat about all things containers and Kubernetes, food and drinks will be provided through the night.

• Putting Production on the Spot * - Guy Templeton (Software Engineer @Skyscanner) & Paul Moran (Sr TAM @ AWS)

How can you keep your CFO happy whilst still providing a reliable service to your users?
EC2 spot instances can offer savings of over 70% compared to On Demand instances, but how do we achieve these savings whilst still ensuring our Kubernetes workloads run reliably to serve travellers? What do you need to take into account, and what advantages can it bring you other than the obvious financial ones?

• The Pain of Gain - Running AWS at Scale * - Neil Armitage (Senior Systems Engineer @ Skyscanner)

At Skyscanner we run all of our operations in AWS and we have learnt the hard way that Cloud resources are not infinite. We constantly hit both known and unknown limits of our AWS accounts. In this talk we will share the lessons we have learnt on running at scale in AWS and the steps we are taking to try and avoid them as we continue to grow.

Representatives of AWS and Skyscanner Talent Acquisition teams will be present on the night for those who are interested in careers with AWS or Skyscanner around the world.

6pm - Arrival & refreshments
6.30pm - Tech Talk: Putting Production on the Spot
7pm - Food & drinks
7.30pm - Tech Talk: The Pain of Gain - Running AWS at Scale
8pm-8.30pm - Networking & drinks

*** Please no recruiters, this is an engineering event ***