Please join AWS User Group for a Buy Your Own Beverage (BYOB) happy hour with AWS User Group at Lucky Labs in NW Portland.

This is a no-programming networking social event for AWS Users to mingle and talk about all things cloud. Meet with your fellow cloud folks to discuss cloud security, cloud opportunities, cloud best practices, tips, tricks, and battle stories.

Can't wait to cheers our beers in person! See you there!!

Portland Amazon AWS Users Group

Portland Amazon AWS Users Group

Portland Amazon AWS Users Group

Jeff Barr is Amazon's chief web services evangelist and will be speaking about what's new with AWS. We'll have a Q&A afterwards so we can pick Jeff's brain about all of those questions that go unanswered.

Portland Amazon AWS Users Group

Portland Amazon AWS Users Group

IMPORTANT: PLEASE RSVP AT THE URL ABOVE, IT'S FREE!

ALSO: The date has changed to Tuesday.

ScaleOutCamp PDX (CloudCamp) is an unconference where early adopters of Cloud Computing technologies exchange ideas. With the rapid change occurring in the industry, we need a place where we can meet to share our experiences, challenges and solutions. At ScaleOutCamp, you are encouraged to share your thoughts in several open discussions, as we strive for the advancement of Cloud Computing. End users, IT professionals and vendors are all encouraged to participate.

Portland Amazon AWS Users Group

Portland Amazon AWS Users Group

Portland Amazon AWS Users Group

Portland Amazon AWS Users Group

Portland Amazon AWS Users Group

Please join us Tuesday night for the PADNUG February meet-up!

This month, Adron Hall will be presenting on Amazon Web Services development with Visual Studio.

WHERE: Intel Hawthorne Farms 3 (HF3) 5200 NE Elam Young Pkwy Hillsboro, OR 97124 Map: http://binged.it/IntelHF3Map

WHEN: Tuesday 2/7/2012 6:00 p.m. Pizza 6:30 p.m. Presentation ~8:30 p.m. After Words at On the Border Mexican Grill

WHO: Adron Hall is CTO of Three Step Solutions, working with startups and small businesses to get the right architecture, build and deployed product into place. He is one of the Node PDX organizers (RSVP now - it is next weekend!) In his day job Adron works on enterprise systems for Russell Investments. Adron's blog is at http://compositecode.com/, and his Twitter handle is @adron.

TOPIC: In this presentation we jump straight into the middle of web development using VS 2010 with AWS Toolkit as our primary deployment tooling. The tooling enables single step deployment to one, or 5,000 instances, in various ways, with multitudes of networking options, traffic distributions, etc. At the end I demo a sample application, using several of the Enterprise Tools & Open Source Tools many .NET Developers use, I deploy an application live.

Thanks to our Premium Sponsors that make these meetings possible:

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VanderHouwen & Associates, Inc. VHA specializes in the placement of Software Developers. http://www.vanderhouwen.com/

Looking forward to seeing you all there!

Cheers, Jesse PADNUG Outreach Coordinator

AWS User Group Road Trip with Jeff Barr

DevopsDays Portland is a two day event with a combination of presentations and open spaces designed to bring development and operations together at one conference.

Register to attend ($100 registration fee): http://devopsdays.org/events/2013-portland/registration/

Those who missed last OpenStack summit need not worry. This meetup will bring Hong Kong highlights to you. We will level set new comers on the technology then cover what's new in the Havana release and how it all fits in the overall Cloud market landscape. Come learn, chat, network and have a good time. Brought to you by DetaCloud.com

Introduction to AWS

Agenda:

• Quick overview of AWS
• 3 use case studies of services
• Overview of the SDK and documentation
• Q&A

Speaker

Brian Mason holds a Masters in Comp Science from Univ of IL. He has been developing for 25 years and currently works as developer at Netapp Inc.

Getting up to speed in OpenStack can be challenging. Whether you're just getting involved or trying to find the deepest details on a given project, where to start is not obvious. Vern Hart (Director of Delivery at Solinea) will cover the landscape of training options available, as well providing a roundup of the best sources of OpenStack information out there. He'll also give some guidance on interacting with the community and how best to leverage the knowledge of the thousands of brilliant developers available via mailing list or IRC.

Vern Hart is the Director of Delivery at Solinea. He is a proven consultant specializing in open infrastructure and helping customers adopting new infrastructure architectures and solutions. Vern has over 20 years of systems administration experience. Prior to Solinea, He was CTO at three separate companies including his own which eventually merged with their largest competitor. Most recently Vern was Director of Support Operations and Training at Morphlabs where he was instrumental in the migration of Morphlabs onto OpenStack from Eucalyptus. He has proven success in both systems development and engineering roles.

Dinner & drinks provided.

Please note our gracious hosts code of conduct: https://docs.puppetlabs.com/community/community_guidelines.html#event-code-of-conduct

Clojure on AWS Lambda is like the Reese's Peanut Butter Cup of the functional programming world. Lambda gives you an easy way to run your functions in the cloud without needing to provision or manage any servers. It's also really cheap and extremely scalable. In this short presentation we'll walk through building and deploying a Clojure microservice using only AWS Lambda and API Gateway. We'll also discuss ways that your Lambda functions could support larger applications in an AWS environment.

Bio:

Dan Anolik has been doing a mix of software development and solutions architecture in the Portland area for over 19 years. He has worked as a consultant for building cloud native applications and is a fairly recent convert to Clojure. Away from the keyboard Dan plays mandolin in a bluegrass band and has been a long-time wilderness search and rescue volunteer.

Greetings Portland AWS User Group! Please join us for the first of many Meetups in Portland this year. To kick things off, we'll be discussing the evolution of Micro-services using AWS Lambda and API Gateway.

Presenters: • Jim Tran, Principal Enterprise Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services • Lee Harding , CTO, Zapproved, Inc.

Schedule: • 5:00 PM: Check-in & Socializing • 5:30 PM: Presentation • 6:45 PM: Q&A

Don't forget to join the Portland AWS User Group on LinkedIn. https://www.linkedin.com/groups/7044332/profile

Join us for the April meeting of PdxDevOps.

Agenda:

1) Carl Hall, Cloudability

Deployment as a Feature

From single service deployment across a few instances to several services in multiple environments over hundreds of instances. We'll take a look at the evolution of a deployment process that has followed the growth of Cloudability over its 5 year history. I'll talk about the tools we've chosen, decisions we've worked through and the automation that drives it all.

pdxdevops is a Portland, Oregon user group that explores the glorious intersection of software development and systems operations, and shares practical advice on working effectively in an era of agile infrastructure, server automation and cloud computing. The group welcomes participants interested in any related products, technologies and methodologies. The group has been meeting regularly since August 2010 for presentations, demos and discussions applicable to all skill levels, from newbies and experts. Every month 15-35 people come together to share their knowledge, projects and enthusiasm for devops – join us!

Join us for the April meeting of PdxDevOps.

Agenda:

Colin Hom from CoreOS

Colin will showcase how CoreOS deploys production Kubernetes clusters on AWS and the open-source tooling around this process. Kube-aws built around the idea of "cluster artifacts" and is designed to be secure, auditable and reproducible. A simple templating system is leveraged to generate cluster configuration as a set of declarative configuration templates that can be version controlled, audited and re-deployed. Since the entirety of the provisioning is by AWS CloudFormation and cloud-init, there’s no need for external configuration management tools on your end. Batteries included!

pdxdevops is a Portland, Oregon user group that explores the glorious intersection of software development and systems operations, and shares practical advice on working effectively in an era of agile infrastructure, server automation and cloud computing. The group welcomes participants interested in any related products, technologies and methodologies. The group has been meeting regularly since August 2010 for presentations, demos and discussions applicable to all skill levels, from newbies and experts. Every month 15-35 people come together to share their knowledge, projects and enthusiasm for devops – join us!

A monthly gathering for Portland area tech junkies. More specifically, those focused on data, emerging technology, and general IT topics. Industry vets, IT pros, nerds, geeks, tech philosoraptors, whatever.... Whether 5 or 50 this is an awesome opportunity to get together and talk shop, learn from peers, or just have some beers and a good time.

No management, No selling, No recruiting, No problems. Talking to people about your product(s) or career networking is fine but people "leeching" on the attendance isn't cool so don't do it. Industry folks with expense cards typically cover festivities but this isn't a "sponsored" event and we don't intend to turn BwE into "powerpoint parties". Venue will be dynamic alternating between locations and if group size demands we'll book a location to support.

If you're new to the group or haven't been out in a while we're a pretty dynamic crowd and always have a lot of fun.

Gilt is an e-commerce fashion retailer. Gilt's application platform leverages popular programming languages such as Java, Scala, Ruby, and JavaScript.

This talk will focus on data persistence strategies in Gilt's core systems: order processing, payment management, invoicing, and checkout. We'll discuss the Event Sourcing pattern and its implementation in a production system.

Speaker:

Sean Sullivan is a Principal Software Engineer at Gilt. Sean has been a member of Gilt's backoffice team since 2011.

Doors open at 6pm for pizza provided by TEKSystems. The presentation will begin at 6:30pm.

slides: https://speakerdeck.com/sullis/e-commerce-under-the-hood

Topic

Serverless Bot Development on AzureChatbots are becoming ubiquitous. From customer service to personal assistance chatbots have come to the forefront because of the natural feel of conversational interfaces backed by AI, big data, and ML.

In this Meetup we’ll discuss how to put all of these elements together in a serverless way using Azure functions, the bot framework, and AI through cognitive services.

Presenter

Christopher Davis, Cloud Solutions Architect, Microsoft

Pizza and Beverages provided

Current popular cloud databases aren't native to serverless—you have to pay for capacity you don’t use. Additionally, they often lack support for joins, indexes, authentication, and other capabilities necessary to build a rich application.

See how FaunaDB's data and operations model fits serverless applications like a glove. The core of the talk is a live code session showing an app using the Serverless.com framework to run real world queries in FaunaDB. If you haven't coded with the Serverless framework before you'll be comfortable picking it up after this.

Presenter: Chris Anderson

Please RSVP: http://bit.ly/2ADeNvo

WHY WE'RE HERE So many of us are building amazing things at work and in the community - let's share, recognize and applaud our badassery. Our intent is to create speaking opportunities for gender minorities while holding a safe space for this technical learning community. We are thrilled to host women and non binary speakers both local and from across the country. Talks are geared towards a technical audience compromised of respectful, curious, supportive individuals who care deeply about technology. We start promptly at 5:15 and end by 6:30, kiddos welcome. Food and drink provided courtesy of Microsoft's Cloud Developer Advocacy Team.

Lightning Talk

Angela Yen: AWS 101 - The Basics of AWS in 7 Minutes or Less

Angela Yen is a senior software engineer at Cloudability, where she works on an app that helps companies manage and scale their cloud use efficiently. Prior to starting a new life surrounded by code, she worked as the producer of an international performing arts festival and before that as a legal aid attorney. Pronouns: she/her/hers

Keynote

Paige Bailey: Well-Aged Bacon: Guessing Kevin Bacon's Age

Paige is Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft. When she's not sitting in front of glowing rectangular screens at work, she absolutely adores hiking / kayaking / mountain-biking around Texas' glorious Green Belt; resuscitating Apples; and (poorly!) attempting to play bass guitar. Personal passions are sustainable energy and climate change research; STEM education reform; and empowering local governments via data science. @DynamicWebPaige Pronouns: she/her/hers

Questions/feedback/interested in speaking? [email protected]

Happy New Year!

Please join us for the next Portland AWS User Group Meetup on February 6th, hosted by Cambia Health Solutions.

TOPIC: Build, train, and deploy machine learning models at any scale with Amazon SageMaker

Presenters: Paul Fryer (AWS), Scott Gregoire (AWS), Dan Anolik (HealthSparq)

Schedule:

• 6:00 PM: Check-in and Happy Hour

• 6:30 PM: Demo and Deep Dive

• 7:45 PM: Q&A

Many thanks to our host Cambia Health Solutions, a local company that is using technology innovation to transform health care. (https://www.cambiahealth.com/newsroom/resources/using-technology-innovation-transform-health-care)

• What to bring

• Important to know
https://aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/

AWS customers continue to struggle demonstrating alignment with security, compliance and audit requirements, such as the PCI-DSS. Additionally, many compliance requirements necessitate administrative and operational security controls that lack technical validation.

This workshop is designed to instruct AWS cloud engineers, DevOps team members, security practitioners, and Managed Security Service Providers (MSSP) how to secure and manage regulated customer workloads in AWS. This class will focus on the security of an AWS customer account design (e.g. AWS CIS Foundation Benchmark), security architecture (e.g. AWS CIS 3-Tier Web Benchmark) and security automation leading practices. This workshop is an intermediate to advanced workshop with an emphasis on designing security automation for regulated workloads in AWS (e.g. PCI, DoD, CJIS, HIPAA, DFARs (800-171), FERPA and others).

The result will enable cloud engineers and security practitioners to design, architect and implement automation in an AWS customer account to automatically enforce compliance requirements. It will also enable attendees to document their security governance/audit readiness through integration of AWS Security Partners from our AWS Marketplace and Security Competency Partners and Solutions.

What will I learn in this class?

How to design automation in AWS to enforce security controls and compliance requirements Automate audit findings to accelerate the compliance process Use AWS Partners and Marketplace tools to create more secure and reliable environments Course Objectives:

Establish secure foundational account design and/or remediation of existing customer accounts Configure and manage AWS Security Services with a focus on automation Implement and design security automation services through AWS services and partner solutions Manage, secure and audit the use of AWS services using real-time risk management processes Leverage shared compliance across multiple security frameworks (e.g. PCI, DoD, CJIS, etc.) Learn about and leverage key security partners from the AWS Partner Network (APN) Learn about Container Security, Serverless Architecture, Advanced Encryption, and Auto-Healing in AWS

Women Who Code Portland's monthly DevOps study night for April. This month's theme: Cloud-based server management

This month, we'll take a look at Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), two of the main providers of cloud infrastructure services. We'll learn how to navigate the web dashboard of AWS, and go over some of the main services AWS provides, like EC2 instances and S3 buckets. Then, we'll all get a chance to workshop together to spin up a server using GCP, and configure some basic services.

The Portland Serverless Meetup is back! New hosts, new location, same great group.

Interested in speaking at a future event? Message us and let us know! We'd love to have you.

This month we'll have two talks:

Self-healing serverless applications

Serverless applications increasingly involve distributed systems where errors and bottlenecks can have significant downstream impact. This can be compounded by the ephemeral nature of FaaS offerings in which errors can be difficult to diagnose retroactively. In this session we'll discuss instrumentation and "self-healing" architectural patterns that will improve resiliency of your application and drive improved observability and performance.

You get serverless. Your team gets serverless. But does your organization get serverless?

You know a serverless architecture is the right solution for a project, but your VP of Engineering is pushing back. They are probably doing this because it’s not obvious how a serverless architecture will fit into the organization’s existing development, testing, and release processes. Their intuition that new techniques are needed to effectively maintain and extend serverless architectures is spot-on. But they can be convinced serverless is the right approach if you show them successful patterns.

Join us as we kick off OSCON with this fireside chat community event (open to all, no need to be an OSCON attendee!) with Kelsey Hightower and Nate Taggart.

Nate and Kelsey will be exploring the impact, trends, and future of serverless from the perspective of both cloud providers and the developer community. This is an event you won't want to miss!

This month we will have two talks:

"What the Heck is OAuth?"

The OAuth 2.0 authorization framework has become the industry standard in providing secure access to web APIs. OAuth allows users to grant external applications access to their data, such as profile data, photos, and email, without compromising security. However, OAuth can be intimidating when first starting out. In this talk, Aaron Parecki will break down the various OAuth workflows and provide a simplified overview of the framework, highlighting a few typical use cases for web apps, mobile apps and browserless devices.

Aaron Parecki is a developer advocate at Okta, and maintains oauth.net. He's the co-founder of IndieWebCamp, a yearly unconference focusing on data ownership and online identity, and is the editor of the W3C Webmention and Micropub specifications.

Alanna Risse will show us how she built a working 'bananaphone' with google cloud voice.

Alanna Risse is a artist, web developer, and full stack mentor at Thinkful. Her piece “Bananaphone” was included in a group show at PNCA this summer. This interactive piece features a Google AIY Voice/Rasperry Pi Zero encased in an oversized paper maché bananaphone. Her website is http://alannarisse.com

The AWS SDK for Java version 2.0 is a complete re-implementation of the SDK for the Java language. It provides a modern API that leverages the latest capabilities from the Java platform. This presentation will highlight key differences between the V1 API and the V2 API. Also, we will examine the V2 HTTP layer and the updated API for AWS CloudMetrics.
Presenter:

Sean Sullivan is a Principal Software Engineer at the Hudson Bay Company. HBC owns and operates multiple retail businesses, including Saks Fifth Avenue, Lord & Taylor, and TheBay.com. Sean has contributed code to the AWS SDK for Java project on Github. He lives in Portland Oregon.

Missed AWS re:Invent?

Join us along with Jerry Hargrove, an AWS Community Hero to recap all things Serverless from re:Invent. With Q&A to follow.

About Jerry: Jerry Hargrove is a cloud architect, evangelist and developer focused on guiding others on their journey to the cloud, helping them build secure, scalable and highly available solutions. Jerry has an extensive background in software development and brings with him over 20 years of experience working as a software architect, developer and manager for companies, including Rackspace, Intel, AWS and now Lucidchart.

This is a meetup that you will not want to miss!

Drinks and Light Snacks will be served.

Cheers to 2019! We are starting the year off talking about Security!

According to a 2018 survey from The New Stack, over 75% of organizations are using or plan to use serverless in the next 18 months. But it does not come without security risks. In this talk, Sonya will discuss key components of serverless architecture and potential risks organizations need to be aware of, such as: visibility and monitoring challenges, denial-of-service attacks, dependencies on external resources, access control risks, and best practices for serverless security both as functions are built and at runtime.

Sonya Koptyev is the Director of Evangelism at Twistlock. She has been driving community efforts across various development technologies since the early days of SharePoint and .NET. Sonya worked on building the Office developer community and the Microsoft AI developer community and bringing the latest in bleeding edge technologies into the hands of developers. As part of Twistlock, Sonya is looking to bring the world of secure cloud native development into the hands of every developer, ensuring that they can make the most of the best cloud native technologies in a secure way.

Schedule: Doors Open at 6 p.m. Programming to begin at 6:30 p.m. with Q&A after.

Drinks and Light Snacks will be served.

Interested in speaking at a future event? Message us and let us know! We'd love to have you.

Safe Lambda Deployments

RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/Portland-Serverless-Architecture-Meetup/events/258602787/

AWS Lambda and AWS CodeDeploy enable developers to safely deploy new application code to production. In this talk, we will discuss how Saks Fifth Avenue adopted 'safe deployment' practices for AWS Lambda functions. We'll examine traffic shifting, traffic hooks, YAML configuration, and the CodeDeploy API.

About the speaker:

Sean Sullivan is a Principal Software Engineer at the Hudson's Bay Company. Sean has worked on a variety of backoffice engineering projects, including payment processing and email generation. He is a contributor to open source projects and has contributed to Amazon's AWS SDK for Java version 2.0. He lives in Portland Oregon.

Schedule:
Doors Open at 6 p.m.
Programming to begin at 6:30 p.m. with Q&A after.

Drinks and Light Snacks will be served.

Safe Lambda Deployments

AWS Lambda and AWS CodeDeploy enable developers to safely deploy new application code to production. In this talk, we will discuss how Saks Fifth Avenue adopted 'safe deployment' practices for AWS Lambda functions. We'll examine traffic shifting, traffic hooks, YAML configuration, and the CodeDeploy API.

About the speaker:

Sean Sullivan is a Principal Software Engineer at the Hudson's Bay Company. Sean has worked on a variety of backoffice engineering projects, including payment processing and email generation. He is a contributor to open source projects and has contributed to Amazon's AWS SDK for Java version 2.0. He lives in Portland Oregon.

Schedule: Doors Open at 6 p.m. Programming to begin at 6:30 p.m. with Q&A after.

Drinks and Light Snacks will be served.

This special edition of the PDX Serverless/AWS User Group will feature a fireside chat with Adrian Cockroft, VP of Cloud Architecture Strategy at Amazon Web Services, conducted by Ben Whaley, AWS Community Hero, author, and open source enthusiast.

Join us to hear firsthand about Adrian's evolution from developing the cloud ecosystem as an instrumental Cloud Architect at Netflix to his VP role surrounding cloud strategy at AWS.

** Please note, an OSCON pass is not required.

Schedule:

Doors Open at 7:00 p.m. Fireside Chat to begin at 7:30 p.m.

Drinks and Light Snacks will be served.

July 18th Performance Efficiency Workshop: AWS Well-Architected Workshop Series

We’re heading back in Portland on July 18th to dive into:

Serverless architecture Scaling globally (in minutes!) Monitoring performance Using your resources efficiently when demand and technologies change

Special Guest: Dean Dietrikx – Manager of the AWS Well-Architected Program

Facilitated by CTO Ryan Comingdeer and Eddie Xu of New Relic.

Date: July 18th Time: 5:30-7:30pm Location: New Relic 111 SW 5th Ave #2700, Portland, OR 97204 Cost: FREE, food and beverages provided

Check out Dean’s interview with Ryan Comingdeer and Five Talent client Verdant Technologies on how the Well-Architected Framework transformed their business. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=qV5YQ_T5pjk

Register and attend to earn $25 in AWS Credits and a chance to win an Amazon Echo Dot!

Tonight we have a presentation on using GraphQL with AWS AppSync by Ryan Jones. There will also be plenty of time before and after the talk to converse with other GraphQL'ers.

Talk: How to leverage AWS AppSync to reduce backend complexity

Details: In this talk, we will dive into AWS AppSync a fully managed GraphQL solution provided by AWS. Which allows you to hook into "resolvers" such as AWS DynamoDB a NoSQL database or AWS Lambda a cloud function that can handle complex business logic.

Speaker: Ryan Jones is the Founder & CEO of a cloud development shop called Serverless Guru here in Portland. He got his start as a cloud developer in the Nike Innovation Engineering department before transitioning to a cloud consulting company and then started Serverless Guru in March of 2018. Serverless Guru helps companies build scalable and cost-effective applications on the cloud.

Want to give a lightning talk on GraphQL? Connect with Daniel in the comments or @dslemay on Twitter. It's a super low key group and we all have knowledge to share.

AWS re:Invent is coming up soon in Las Vegas December 2nd - 6th in 2019. Here's more info about the conference https://reinvent.awsevents.com/

In this Meetup, I'm planning to recap my sessions and share my interviews with other attendees. If videos and slides are available publicly in time, I'll share them as well.

Here's my current schedule 1. Finding a needle in a haystack: Use AI to transform content management 2. AWS Certification Exam Readiness: Machine Learning - Specialty 3. Get started with AWS DeepRacer 4. Build accurate training datasets with Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth 5. Build an engaging Alexa skill with Cake Walk 6. Cluster adverse events with Amazon Comprehend Medical & Amazon SageMaker 7. Deep learning applications with PyTorch, featuring Freshworks 8. Building predictive applications with IoT and machine learning

Everyone is welcome to learn or share their experiences.

Be inspired! Knowledge Mavens

The PDX Serverless Meetup is back! We're more excited than ever to continue the serverless talks.

Missed AWS re:Invent?

Join us along with Jerry Hargrove, from AWS to recap all things Serverless from re:Invent. With Q&A to follow.

About Jerry: Jerry Hargrove is a cloud architect, evangelist and developer focused on guiding others on their journey to the cloud, helping them build secure, scalable and highly available solutions. Jerry has an extensive background in software development and brings with him over 20 years of experience working as a software architect, developer and manager for companies, including Rackspace, Intel, Lucidchart, and AWS.

This is a meetup that you will not want to miss!

Drinks and Light Snacks will be served. RSVP to join.

Join us in February for a fantastic introduction to AWS CloudFormation from Senior Software Engineer at Nike, Yves Gurcan!

From Yves: "Tired of zipping and updating your Lambda functions by hand every time you want to deploy to production? Yeah, me too.

What if I told you that there is a solution out there that lets you deploy your entire application to AWS from your local machine? What, you don't believe me? But this tool even has a cool aerial name that's like super on point because it's about cloud computing! Too good to be true? Great news! This service exists and it is called AWS CloudFormation.

Let's talk about infrastructure as code! In this presentation, Yves will walk us through how to create a stack with CloudFormation... and then delete it! Together, we will thoroughly explore the capabilities of this service through the AWS Console. We will look at the CloudFormation template of an example application and decrypt the hieroglyphs 🐦 ☀️🏺 (also known as YAML CloudFormation) that deploy your resources to AWS. We will build things, break things, and have a good laugh!

Bonus: After demoing how CloudFormation works, host Yves Gurcan will also showcase how Stackery can help you visualize your stack while you are writing it in Visual Studio Code!"

About Yves: Yves Gurcan is a certified AWS Cloud Practitioner and a senior software engineer. Expert in all things JavaScript, he enjoys building bleeding edge web applications in React and Node. He also is the maintainer of an open-source library that enables browsers to play MIDI files: https://github.com/yvesgurcan/web-midi-player.

Want to know more about this mysterious Frenchman? Get in touch with him at https://connect.yvesgurcan.com

Schedule:

Doors Open at 5:45 p.m. Programming to begin at 6:15 p.m. with Q&A after.

Drinks and a casual dinner will be served.

Interested in speaking at a future event? Message us and let us know or fill out the form below! We'd love to have you.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdcCbOWpytWYeoUx0vJAnSn0aBOap3wvZkA-XudTG70G5mQuw/viewform?usp=sf_link

Portland Java User Group meetup December 2020

Topic: Java on AWS

This presentation is an overview of Java technology on Amazon's cloud platform. We will look at: - Amazon's JDK distribution - AWS SDK for Java - AWS CDK for Java - AWS serverless technology

Join us online for the last PJUG meetup of 2020.

RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/PDXJUG/events/275035815

Ever feel like a noob in the technology industry? You are not alone. Join us as Jeff Luxmore shares his journey from noob to Senior Software Engineer at Allwest Auto Remarketing and Owner of his own consulting firm, Left Coast Code.

Come join us for networking, learning, and engagement!

Learn more about The Tech Academy at www.LearnCodingAnywhere.com

The cloud is not a thing. It's a vast, interconnected web of things. An ecosystem of things. The Architect Path will help you understand this ecosystem, how different services interact with one another, and how to make the best use of them, while also going deep on services considered foundational for day-to-day cloud architects.

For more details on Aws Course

Please join AWS User Group for a Buy Your Own Beverage (BYOB) happy hour with AWS User Group at Lucky Labs in NW Portland.

This is a no-programming networking social event for AWS Users to mingle and talk about all things cloud. Meet with your fellow cloud folks to discuss cloud security, cloud opportunities, cloud best practices, tips, tricks, and battle stories.

Can't wait to cheers our beers in person! See you there!!

RSVP at meetup dot com https://www.meetup.com/pdxjug/events/303354895/

Join us for the PJUG September meetup. The topic is Amazon S3 and its developer API.

S3 is Amazon’s object storage service. S3 allows developers to persist data in the cloud. This presentation will discuss S3 primitives and the developer API. Attend this talk to learn best practices for building Java applications with S3.

Please join AWS User Group for a Buy Your Own Beverage (BYOB) happy hour with AWS User Group at Lucky Labs in NW Portland.

This is a no-programming networking social event for AWS Users to mingle and talk about all things cloud. Meet with your fellow cloud folks to discuss cloud security, cloud opportunities, cloud best practices, tips, tricks, and battle stories.

Can't wait to cheers our beers in person! See you there!!

Please join AWS User Group for a Buy Your Own Beverage (BYOB) happy hour with AWS User Group at Lucky Labs in NW Portland.

This is a no-programming networking social event for AWS Users to mingle and talk about all things cloud. Meet with your fellow cloud folks to discuss cloud security, cloud opportunities, cloud best practices, tips, tricks, and battle stories.

Can't wait to cheers our beers in person! See you there!!

Join Ram Vittal, Piyush Kadam & Karthik Rajendran from AWS,to hear about Accelerating AI to Production: Unlocking the Power of MLOps and Governance with Amazon SageMaker

Come to this meetup and hear how Amazon SageMaker enables robust MLOps and ML governance practices to accelerate your machine learning and generative AI deployments. You'll learn about SageMaker's key capabilities, including automated MLOps pipelines, model governance and traceability, and responsible AI management. Discover how SageMaker helps overcome common barriers to ML adoption, such as data quality issues, model governance challenges, and inefficient operations.

Speakers

Ram Vittal is a Principal ML Solutions Architect at AWS. He has over 3 decades of experience architecting and building distributed, hybrid, and cloud applications. He is passionate about building secure, scalable, reliable AI/ML and big data solutions to help enterprise customers with their cloud adoption and optimization journey to improve their business outcomes. In his spare time, he rides motorcycle and walks with his three-year old sheep-a-doodle!

Piyush Kadam is a Product leader for Amazon SageMaker, a fully managed service for generative AI builders. Piyush has extensive experience delivering products that help startups and enterprise customers harness the power of foundation models.

Karthik is a Senior Solutions Architect at AWS, with diverse Enterprise architecture experience across Finance, Retail, Insurance and energy sectors. He has over 20 years of experience architecting and building distributed, hybrid, and cloud native applications. His passion is helping enterprise customers with their cloud migration journey. Outside work passions include Milky Way photography and motorcycles.

This event is at ProFocus Technology! Check in and AWS User Group Community Networking begins at 5:30pm, AWS Tech Talk begins at 6:00, and the event ends at 7:30pm.