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/

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.

Sean Sullivan will be presenting on Tuesday about the evolution of microservices at the Hudson's Bay Company.

7pm-8pm at WeWork Pioneer Place.

RSVP here: https://www.meetup.com/PDXJUG/events/254947342/

Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/sullis/microservices-portland-oregon-2018-09-25

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.

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