Delighted to post the draft agenda for the next AWS User Group Glasgow Meet Up on Wednesday 29th January 2020.
We will have two speakers on the night, please RSVP if you intend to come along to help make sure we have food and drinks for everyone.
The main themes of the evening will be recapping on the news and announcements from AWS re:Invent 2019 and diving deeper into some of the new product announcements and a look at AWS Deep Racer in the flesh.
Agenda:
18:15 – 18:30 : Door Opens, Food, Refreshments and Networking
18:30 – 19:15 : Finlay MacRae, Glasgow AI
“Finlay” will introduce us to the world of AWS Deep Racing
Overview: It looks really cool but what is exactly reinforcement learning, the principle behind the AWS Deep Racer, in this talk we will be introduced to the RL concept and explore the console training environment, plus there will be some news around getting involved with AWS Deep Racer going forward too
19:15 – 19:30 : Break
19:30 – 20:45 : Craig Muir, AWS Glasgow User Group
“Craig Muir” will present an AWS reCAP of the AWS re:Invent2019
Overview: Dive into the big and not so big announcements from AWS re:Invent 2019 and deep dive into some of the launch announcements as well, such as Amazon Auroa Machine Learning, AWS Data Exchange, AWS Transit Gateway Inter-Region Peering and Amazon VPC Ingress Routing
20:45 - 21:00 : AOB, Next Meet Up Agenda, Good Night, Pub.
Sponsors:
Thanks to Skyscanner for letting us use their office, supplying refreshments and help on the night.
Delighted to post the final agenda for the next AWS User Group Glasgow Meet Up on Wednesday 16thOctober 2019.
We will be running a workshop on the night focusing on the AWS Solution Architect (Associate) exam accreditation, please RSVP if you intend to come along to help make sure we have food and drinks for everyone.
Agenda:
18:15 – 18:45 : Door Opens, Food, Refreshments and Networking
18:45 – 19:30 : AWS User Group Glasgow Workshop
“As an AWS Meet Up group” we want to help you better understand what is required to pass the AWS Solution Architect (Associate) exam.
Overview: For the workshop, the format will be a review and discussion on a wide range of AWS Solution Architect (Associate) topics and relevant exam questions to help you be better prepared for the AWS Solution Architect (Associate) exam.
19:30 – 19:45 : Break
19:45 – 20:45 : AWS User Group Glasgow Workshop
Workshop continued…
20:45 - 21:00 : AOB, Next Meet Up Agenda, Good Night, Pub.
Sponsors:
Thanks to Skyscanner for letting us use their office, supplying refreshments and help on the night.
Delighted to post the final agenda for the next AWS User Group Glasgow Meet Up on Wednesday 28th August 2019.
We will have two speakers on the night, please RSVP if you intend to come along to help make sure we have food and drinks for everyone.
Agenda:
18:15 – 18:45 : Door Opens, Food, Refreshments and Networking
18:45 – 19:30 : Michael Roddy, Skyscanner
“Michael” will share Skyscanner’s learnings on the hidden challenge of API Rate Limiting and the pain and problems it can cause.
Overview: In this talk, Michael discusses Skyscanner’s exploration of a poorly documented area of AWS – API Rate Limiting. An increasing problem for the company, it requires care to avoid and diagnose production incidents. Michael will talk about how diagnosing these issues happens at Skyscanner currently, and how it’s pushing them to a multi-account approach to AWS.
19:30 – 19:45 : Craig Muir, AWS User Group Glasgow
Group discussion on the upcoming AWS Glasgow User Group Certification approach workshop scheduled for October…
19:45 – 20:00 : Break
20:00 – 20:45 : Guy Templeton, Skyscanner
“Guy’ will share an overview of the challenges of running large workloads on AWS Spot instances, but also the benefits it can bring them.
Overview: In this talk, Guy will discuss Skyscanner's experiences of running Kubernetes production workloads on spot instances at scale. This has brought them savings of over 70% on compute cost whilst running more than 15,000 pods and serving more than 3 million requests per minute across multiple clusters. He will reveal the benefits this brings to the company, the challenges for cluster operators, and areas for improvement in how the Kubernetes ecosystem handles these challenges.
20:45 - 21:00 : AOB, Next Meet Up Agenda, Good Night, Pub.
Sponsors:
Thanks to Skyscanner for letting us use their office, supplying refreshments and help on the night.
Delighted to post the final agenda for the next AWS User Group Glasgow Meet Up on Wednesday 28th August 2019.
We will have two speakers on the night, please RSVP if you intend to come along to help make sure we have food and drinks for everyone.
Agenda:
18:15 – 18:45 : Door Opens, Food, Refreshments and Networking
18:45 – 19:15 : Michael Roddy, Skyscanner
“Michael” will share Skyscanner’s learnings on the hidden challenge of API Rate Limiting and the pain and problems it can cause.
Overview: In this talk, Michael discusses Skyscanner’s exploration of a poorly documented area of AWS – API Rate Limiting. An increasing problem for the company, it requires care to avoid and diagnose production incidents. Michael will talk about how diagnosing these issues happens at Skyscanner currently, and how it’s pushing them to a multi-account approach to AWS.
19:45 – 20:00 : Break
20:00 – 20:30 : Guy Templeton, Skyscanner
“Guy’ will share an overview of the challenges of running large workloads on AWS Spot instances, but also the benefits it can bring them.
Overview: In this talk, Guy will discuss Skyscanner's experiences of running Kubernetes production workloads on spot instances at scale. This has brought them savings of over 70% on compute cost whilst running more than 15,000 pods and serving more than 3 million requests per minute across multiple clusters. He will reveal the benefits this brings to the company, the challenges for cluster operators, and areas for improvement in how the Kubernetes ecosystem handles these challenges.
20:30 – 20:45 : Craig Muir, AWS User Group Glasgow
Group discussion on the upcoming AWS Glasgow User Group Certification approach workshop scheduled for October…
21:00 : AOB, Next Meet Up Agenda, Good Night, Pub.
Sponsors:
Thanks to Skyscanner for letting us use their office, supplying refreshments and help on the night.
Delighted to post the final agenda for the next AWS User Group Glasgow Meet Up on Wednesday 19th June 2019.
We will have one speaker on the night, please RSVP if you intend to come along to help make sure we have food and drinks for everyone.
Agenda:
18:15 – 18:45 : Door Opens, Food, Refreshments and Networking
18:45 – 19:45 : Andrew Langhorn, Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services
Andrew will be presenting: A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Nitro
Objective: Understand Nitro, the current EC2 hypervisor, how it works and the history behind virtualisation at AWS
Overview: EC2 underpins many of the world’s largest websites, services and infrastructure - sometimes directly but sometimes indirectly, through services such as RDS and ECS. Let’s take a peek behind-the-scenes to see how EC2 works and what advantages Nitro gives to our customers.
19:45 – 20:00 : Break
20:00 – 20:40 : Andrew Langhorn, Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services
Andrew will be hosting a deep dive question and answer session on EC2 Hypervisor and other AWS Services
20:40 – 21:00 : AOB, Next Meet Up Agenda, Good Night, Pub.
Sponsors:
Thanks to Skyscanner for letting us use their office, supplying refreshments and help on the night.
I will update with a full agenda soon but the draft plan for this Meet Up is to have an AWS Deep Dive.
Andrew Langhorn, an AWS Solution Architect will be discussing how some of the more popular services work under the hood and will discuss a brief history of the AWS HyperVisor.
Delighted to post the final agenda for the next AWS User Group Glasgow Meet Up on Wednesday 13th March 2019.
We will have one “Spotlight Session” on the night, please RSVP if you intend to come along to help make sure we have food and drinks for everyone.
Agenda:
18:15 – 18:45 : Door Opens, Food, Refreshments and Networking
18:45 – 19:45 : AWS User Group Glasgow “Spotlight Session”
An informal discussion amongst the group to discuss individual current issues or successes, with it being an AWS User Group, we will try and keep the topics to AWS but I am sure there is enough experience in the group to look at other areas as well.
Overview: As a starter for ten, I would like to discuss the following topics, AWS Certification, AWS CLI, EC2 Sizing but please feel free to have your own topics ready for discussion as well.
19:45 – 20:00 : Break
20:00 – 20:40 : AWS User Group Glasgow “Spotlight Session”
Continuing on from the earlier “Spotlight Session”.
20:40 – 21:00 : AOB, Next Meet Up Agenda, Good Night, Pub.
Sponsors:
Thanks to Skyscanner for letting us use their office, supplying refreshments and help on the night.
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Delighted to post the final agenda for the next AWS User Group Glasgow Meet Up on Wednesday 23rd January 2019.
We will have one speaker on the night, please RSVP if you intend to come along to help make sure we have food and drinks for everyone.
Agenda:
18:15 – 18:45 : Door Opens, Food, Refreshments and Networking
18:45 – 19:45 : Philip Fitzsimon, Leader of the AWS Well-Architected Team at Amazon Web Services
“Fitz” will present an overview of the Well Architected Framework covering its evolution since it was introduced in 2012, Fitz will also share some of the valuable lesson his team has learned over the years and will demo the new automated Well Architected tooling announced at AWS re:Invent 2018.
Overview: The Well-Architected Framework has been developed to help cloud architects build secure, high-performing, resilient, and efficient infrastructure for their applications. Based on five pillars — operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, and cost optimization — the Framework provides a consistent approach for customers and partners to evaluate architectures and implement designs that will scale over time.
19:45 – 20:00 : Break
20:00 – 20:40 : Philip Fitzsimon, Leader of the AWS Well-Architected Team at Amazon Web Services
Fitz will be hosting a deep dive question and answer session on the Well Architected Framework and other AWS Services
20:40 – 21:00 : AOB, Next Meet Up Agenda, Good Night, Pub.
Sponsors:
Thanks to Skyscanner for letting us use their office, supplying refreshments and help on the night.
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