Posts tagged "serverless"

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AWS re:Invent 2018: The Day 2 Buzz

Nov 28, 2018

Today started super early with the annual re:Invent Fun Run which this year had two options, 4km like last year and double for fun this year, 8km. Silly me, I opted for 8km. The run starts at The Mirage and heads down behind the casino's along Frank Sinatra drive, 4km turn around at the Aria and 8km was past Mandalay Bay both ending back at the Mirage. There was a fun and lively warm up beforeh...

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AWS re:Invent 2018: The Quad at Aria - Builders Fair + other fun and games

Nov 28, 2018

The Quad is a great part of re:Invent separate from the normal vendor showfloor. The Quad contains a builders fair, a big VMware community booth which I've blogged about separately: ( and plenty of other fun and games. I spent some time going through some of the booths to see what interesting things people are cooking up on the cloud. Interesting the vast majority where using mostly serverless...

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AWS re:Invent 2018: VMware at AWS re:Invent

Nov 28, 2018

VMware and AWS have both made a significant investment in VMware Cloud on AWS. One of the interesting facets of this relationship is how the VMware and AWS communities are starting to cross over more than when VMware thought of AWS as just "a book seller"! The Power of Community VMware has always had an extremely vibrant community. Some of it was timing, having a technology that became ubiquito...

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AWS re:Invent 2018: Closing Loops and Opening Minds: How to Take Control of Systems, Big and Small - ARC337

Nov 27, 2018

( - Sr Principal Engineer, EC2 Networking, AWS This session was a rare opportunity to hear from AWS itself how it runs its cloud. It was all about the AWS control plane and how it is the key to the success of the system. Distributing configurations and customer settings, launching instances, or responding to surges in load are all things that this stable and scalable control plane needs to do. ...

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AWS re:Invent 2018: Get Started with Deep Learning and Computer Vision Using AWS DeepLens - AIM316

Nov 27, 2018

Kashif Imran and Jyothi Nookula from AWS I wanted to attend a workshop on something I don't normally deal with. This workshop was all about deep learning so we're into the work of AI! The idea was to learn how to build and deploy computer vision models using the AWS DeepLens deep learning-enabled video camera. This was then extended to build a machine learning application and a model from scrat...

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AWS re:Invent 2018: Monday Night Live with Peter DeSantis

Nov 27, 2018

Peter is AWSs Global Infrastructure VP which he’s been now doing for a little over 2 years although he’s a company man of 20 years. Peter did his ( (it was a Tuesday) which he took over from previous super techie guru, James Hamilton. Peter gets to peel back some of the curtain of what AWS is working on for its global platform. As a recap, last year it was a good explanation of the Nitro system...

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AWS re:Invent 2018: The Day 1 Buzz

Nov 27, 2018

AWS Re:Invent started full-on today, There are a rumoured 45,000 people at the conference, the event is spread across 6 hotels in Las Vegas and if you know the size of the hotels in Vegas, you can imaging how enormous this actually is. Last year was of course super busy and there were logistics problems getting people around the venues and more annoyingly I missed a number of sessions despite b...

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AWS re:Invent 2018: Workshop - Alexa, Ask Jarvis to Create a Serverless App for Me - SRV315

Nov 27, 2018

Aleksandar Simovic - a software engineer from ScienceExchange Slobodan Stojanovic - CTO of Cloud Horizon This workshop piqued my interest as a little peak into the future of creating serverless applications. Today, we can already use existing CloudFormation templates or the Serverless Application Repository (SAM) to spin up a serverless application quickly without having to write any new code a...

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AWS re:Invent 2018: Serverless Retail Technologies at Scale Workshop - RET302

Nov 26, 2018

Mike Mackay, Toby Knight, Bastien Leblanc, Imran Dawood, Mike Morain, Andrew Kane, Samuel Waymouth, Lee Packham, all from Amazon and Charles Wilkinson Architecture Head from River Island This was a retail focused workshop which although not in my normal sphere of interest piqued my interest as its a great example of designing technology for massive, seasonal scale. There's a difference between...

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AWS re:Invent 2018: Supercharge VMware Cloud on AWS Environments with Native AWS Services - CMP360

Nov 26, 2018

Andy Reedy, Aarthi Raju and Wen Yu from AWS Being a long time VMware customer, I'm very interested in what VMware Cloud on AWS (VMConAWS) could offer. Its early days and I'm not sure what customer take-up has been so far but there is certainly industry buzz, attention and interested customers. Its VMware's current big push to be seen as a cloud company. One of the criticisms levelled at VMConAW...

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