VIRTUAL -- UC Berkeley Cloud Meetup 016

The UC Berkeley Cloud Community of Practice will be holding our 16th meetup, in an all virtual mode (due to covid-19/coronavirus). We have some excellent guests and topics and hope to see you (cameras on!) later this month. Sorry we do not know how to deliver 🍕🍕🍕🥤 remotely !

Everyone is welcome - this is a really inclusive group! You don't have to be an expert, or already know about cloud technologies; we get together so people can learn from each other.

CONNECT VIA ZOOM: See connection info in meetup invite.

AGENDA:

4:45 We will open the virtual event slightly before 5pm to troubleshoot connections and get speaker AV working.

5:00 Host welcome and announcements

5:10: Speakers: Marisa Strong & Terry Brady from the California Digital Library will present about using presigned URLs in the Merritt Preservation System which provides digital preservation for 50 million files totaling 150 TB of original content. The Merritt System has utilized cloud storage and cloud compute resources for several years and the team is currently undertaking a number of initiatives that embrace cloud computing design patterns to assist with an ever increasing volume of content. They will discuss how one such pattern, presigned URLs, has improved system reliability.

5:40 SkyDeck Startup Showcase: Shawn Razek, CEO/Founder Xoba Labs. Shawn will talk about how Xoba uses cloud infrastructure to make it easier than ever to discover, organize, and share information across work applications and teams.
https://xobalabs.com

5:50 Speaker: Bill Allison, UC Berkeley Chief Technology Officer, will talk about how we are modernizing our IT practices and engaging people to work together on more strategic approaches to hybrid and cloud computing.

6:30 pm - End/ "Doors" close.

About the format of the talks-- presenters have been invited to share their experience with a short story framed around 3 questions:

1. WHY - Start with Why & the business value/value to mission. Why did you need cloud computing? Describe the big vision, business problem and/or academic challenge (not technical!) that you were trying to solve. (For example, teaching thousands of Berkeley students data science and making it come alive, or enabling citizen scientists around the world to crowdsource bird migration data to ascertain patterns...)

2. HOW - How did you end up using cloud computing to solve the challenge? How did you architect, build, design, etc. How do the pieces fit together and how does it work?

3. WHAT - What was the result? What did you learn? Share your war stories, lessons learned, insights, gotchas etc.