York AWS User Group: Monday 14th October 2024

Monday 14th October 2024;
Aviva, Wellington Row, York, YO90 1WR
City centre, a short walk from York railway station.

Join us for our next face-to-face meetup: learn and chat about all-things AWS, and meet other cloud practitioners in the area.

Two great talks on Chaos Engineering, and on lessons learned using GenAI dev tools.

18:00: Doors open - turn up, meet people, grab a drink
18:00 - 18:30: Pizza arrives, more time for people to turn up
18:30 - 19:10: Talk 1: 'Your First Chaos Experiment’ - Chris Strug, AWS
19:10 - 19:20: Break
19:20 - 20:00: Talk 2: ‘Build without limits - lessons learned from using generative AI dev tools’, Ricardo Sueiras, AWS
20:00 onwards: post-meetup drinks in The Judge's Lodging, at 9 Lendal

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Talk 1: Your First Chaos Experiment
Speaker: Chris Strug, Senior Technical Account Manager, UK Public Sector, AWS

In this session learn about chaos engineering concepts such as steady states, hypothesis, and how to demonstrate the value of an experiment to your business. We will detail what a good hypothesis looks like, the value of defining steady state in terms of business value, and how to use chaos engineering frameworks to build repeatable experiments. We will outline the evolutionary journey so that you are prepared to conduct your second chaos experiment, and beyond.

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Talk 2: Build without limits - lessons learned from using generative AI dev tools
Speaker: Ricardo Sueiras, AWS

Next generation developer tools that incorporate generative AI are everywhere, but how good are they, and. more importantly, how useful. In this talk I am going to share what I have learned from using these tools over the last 12 months. I will cover the kinds of day-to-day scenarios and use cases I am finding them useful for, how they are helping me address some of my developer problems, and tips I have learned to more effectively use these tools. This session contains live coding/demos that will help you see this in action.

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Food and drink

Food will be in the form of pizza - please let us know if you have any specific dietary requirements prior to the day and we will endeavour to meet your needs. We’ll also be providing a range of drinks.

Code of conduct

Like a large number of other communities, we have an anti harassment policy and code of conduct (https://www.meetup.com/York-Amazon-Web-Services-User-Group/pages/32649582/Code_of_Conduct/), in order to support the inclusive nature of our events. It is necessary for all attendees, speakers, sponsors and volunteers at any AWS Leeds to agree with the code of conduct.

Helping with diversity and inclusivity

The organising team for AWS York are keen to promote diversity and inclusivity, in terms of speakers, how events are run, and the composition of the organising team. If you would like to contribute to this aim, particularly if you think you have experiences that you might not consider to be typical for the majority of the tech community, we would be really excited to talk with you at the event.