DevOps at re:Invent 2019!

[Session] Amazon’s approach to building resilient services (DOP342-R; DOP342-R1) — SPACE AVAILABLE! REGISTER TODAY!

Speaker: Marc Brooker – Senior Principal Engineer, Amazon Web Services

One of the biggest challenges of building services and systems is predicting the future. Changing load, business requirements, and customer behavior can all change in unexpected ways. In this talk, we look at how AWS builds, monitors, and operates services that handle the unexpected. Learn how to make your own services handle a changing world, from basic design principles to patterns you can apply today.

[Session] Amazon’s approach to failing successfully (DOP208-R; DOP208-R1)

Speaker: Becky Weiss – Senior Principal Engineer, Amazon Web Services

Welcome to the real world, where things don’t always go your way. Systems can fail despite being designed to be highly available, scalable, and resilient. These failures, if used correctly, can be a powerful lever for gaining a deep understanding of how a system actually works, as well as a tool for learning how to avoid future failures. In this session, we cover Amazon’s favorite techniques for defining and reviewing metrics—watching the systems before they fail—as well as how to do an effective postmortem that drives both learning and meaningful improvement.

[Session] Improving resiliency with chaos engineering (DOP309-R; DOP309-R1)

Speaker 1: Olga Hall – Senior Manager, Tech Program Management
Speaker 2: Adrian Hornsby – Principal Evangelist, Amazon Web Services

Failures are inevitable. Regardless of the engineering efforts put into building resilient systems and handling edge cases, sometimes a case beyond our reach turns a benign failure into a catastrophic one. Therefore, we should test and continuously improve our system’s resilience to failures to minimize impact on a user’s experience. Chaos engineering is one of the best ways to achieve that. In this session, you learn how Amazon Prime Video has implemented chaos engineering into its regular testing methods, helping it achieve increased resiliency.

[Session] Amazon’s approach to security during development (DOP310-R; DOP310-R1)

Speaker: Colm MacCarthaigh – Senior Principal Engineer, Amazon Web Services

At AWS we say that security comes first—and we really mean it. In this session, hear about how AWS teams both minimize security risks in our products and respond to security issues proactively. We talk through how we integrate security reviews, penetration testing, code analysis, and formal verification into the development process. Additionally, we discuss how AWS engineering teams react quickly and decisively to new security risks as they emerge. We also share real-life firefighting examples and the lessons learned in the process.

[Session] Driving change and building a high-performance DevOps culture (DOP207-R; DOP207-R1)

Speaker: Mark Schwartz – Enterprise Strategist, Amazon Web Services

When it comes to digital transformation, every enterprise is different. There is often a person or group with a vision, knowledge of good practices, a sense of urgency, and the energy to break through impediments. They may be anywhere in the organizational structure: high, low, or—in a typical scenario—somewhere in middle management. Mark Schwartz, an enterprise strategist at AWS and the author of “The Art of Business Value” and “A Seat at the Table: IT Leadership in the Age of Agility,” shares some of his research into building a high-performance culture by driving change from every level of the organization.

[Session] Amazon’s approach to running service-oriented organizations (DOP301-R; DOP301-R1; DOP301-R2)

Speaker: Andy Troutman – Director AWS Developer Tools, Amazon Web Services

Amazon’s “two-pizza teams” are famously small teams that support a single service or feature. Each of these teams has the autonomy to build and operate their service in a way that best supports their customers. But how do you coordinate across tens, hundreds, or even thousands of two-pizza teams? In this session, we explain how Amazon coordinates technology development at scale by focusing on strategies that help teams coordinate while maintaining autonomy to drive innovation.

re:Invent TIP #4: The max number of 60-minute sessions you can attend during re:Invent is 24! These sessions (e.g., sessions, chalk talks, builders sessions) will usually make up the bulk of your agenda.

[Session] Deploy your code, scale your application, and lower Cloud costs using AWS Elastic Beanstalk (DOP326) — SPACE AVAILABLE! REGISTER TODAY!

Speaker: Prashant Prahlad – Sr. Manager

You can effortlessly convert your code into web applications without having to worry about provisioning and managing AWS infrastructure, applying patches and updates to your platform or using a variety of tools to monitor health of your application. In this session, we show how anyone- not just professional developers – can use AWS Elastic Beanstalk in various scenarios: From an administrator moving a Windows .NET workload into the Cloud, a developer building a containerized enterprise app as a Docker image, to a data scientist being able to deploy a machine learning model, all without the need to understand or manage the infrastructure details.

[Session] Amazon’s approach to high-availability deployment (DOP404-R; DOP404-R1) — SPACE AVAILABLE! REGISTER TODAY!

Speaker: Peter Ramensky – Senior Manager

Continuous-delivery failures can lead to reduced service availability and bad customer experiences. To maximize the rate of successful deployments, Amazon’s development teams implement guardrails in the end-to-end release process to minimize deployment errors, with a goal of achieving zero deployment failures. In this session, learn the continuous-delivery practices that we invented that help raise the bar and prevent costly deployment failures.

[Session] Strategies for securing code in the cloud and on premises. Speakers: (DOP320-R; DOP320-R1)

Speaker 1: Craig Smith – Senior Solutions Architect
Speaker 2: Lee Packham – Solutions Architect

Some people prefer to keep their code and tooling on premises, though this can create headaches and slow teams down. Others prefer keeping code off of laptops that can be misplaced. In this session, we walk through the alternatives and recommend best practices for securing your code in cloud and on-premises environments. We demonstrate how to use services such as Amazon WorkSpaces to keep code secure in the cloud. We also show how to connect tools such as Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) and AWS CodeBuild with your on-premises environments so that your teams can go fast while keeping your data off of the public internet.

[Session] Introduction to DevOps on AWS (DOP209-R; DOP209-R1)

Speaker 1: Jonathan Weiss – Senior Manager
Speaker 2: Sebastien Stormacq – Senior Technical Evangelist

How can you accelerate the delivery of new, high-quality services? Are you able to experiment and get feedback quickly from your customers? How do you scale your development team from 1 to 1,000? To answer these questions, it is essential to leverage some key DevOps principles and use CI/CD pipelines so you can iterate on and quickly release features. In this talk, we walk you through the journey of a single developer building a successful product and scaling their team and processes to hundreds or thousands of deployments per day. We also walk you through best practices and using AWS tools to achieve your DevOps goals.

[Workshop] DevOps essentials: Introductory workshop on CI/CD practices (DOP201-R; DOP201-R1; DOP201-R2; DOP201-R3)

Speaker 1: Leo Zhadanovsky – Principal Solutions Architect
Speaker 2: Karthik Thirugnanasambandam – Partner Solutions Architect

In this session, learn how to effectively leverage various AWS services to improve developer productivity and reduce the overall time to market for new product capabilities. We demonstrate a prescriptive approach to incrementally adopt and embrace some of the best practices around continuous integration and delivery using AWS developer tools and third-party solutions, including, AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeBuild, Jenkins, AWS CodePipeline, AWS CodeDeploy, AWS X-Ray and AWS Cloud9. We also highlight some best practices and productivity tips that can help make your software release process fast, automated, and reliable.

[Workshop] Implementing GitFLow with AWS tools (DOP202-R; DOP202-R1; DOP202-R2)

Speaker 1: Amit Jha – Sr. Solutions Architect
Speaker 2: Ashish Gore – Sr. Technical Account Manager

Utilizing short-lived feature branches is the development method of choice for many teams. In this workshop, you learn how to use AWS tools to automate merge-and-release tasks. We cover high-level frameworks for how to implement GitFlow using AWS CodePipeline, AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeBuild, and AWS CodeDeploy. You also get an opportunity to walk through a prebuilt example and examine how the framework can be adopted for individual use cases.

[Chalk Talk] Generating dynamic deployment pipelines with AWS CDK (DOP311-R; DOP311-R1; DOP311-R2)

Speaker 1: Flynn Bundy – AppDev Consultant
Speaker 2: Koen van Blijderveen – Senior Security Consultant

In this session we dive deep into dynamically generating deployment pipelines that deploy across multiple AWS accounts and Regions. Using the power of the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK), we demonstrate how to simplify and abstract the creation of deployment pipelines to suit a range of scenarios. We highlight how AWS CodePipeline—along with AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeCommit, and AWS CodeDeploy—can be structured together with the AWS deployment framework to get the most out of your infrastructure and application deployments.

[Chalk Talk] Customize AWS CloudFormation with open-source tools (DOP312-R; DOP312-R1; DOP312-E)

Speaker 1: Luis Colon – Senior Developer Advocate
Speaker 2: Ryan Lohan – Senior Software Engineer

In this session, we showcase some of the best open-source tools available for AWS CloudFormation customers, including conversion and validation utilities. Get a glimpse of the many open-source projects that you can use as you create and maintain your AWS CloudFormation stacks.

[Chalk Talk] Optimizing Java applications for scale on AWS (DOP314-R; DOP314-R1; DOP314-R2)

Speaker 1: Sam Fink – SDE II
Speaker 2: Kyle Thomson – SDE3

Executing at scale in the cloud can require more than the conventional best practices. During this talk, we offer a number of different Java-related tools you can add to your AWS tool belt to help you more efficiently develop Java applications on AWS—as well as strategies for optimizing those applications. We adapt the talk on the fly to cover the topics that interest the group most, including more easily accessing Amazon DynamoDB, handling high-throughput uploads to and downloads from Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), troubleshooting Amazon ECS services, working with local AWS Lambda invocations, optimizing the Java SDK, and more.

[Chalk Talk] Securing your CI/CD tools and environments (DOP316-R; DOP316-R1; DOP316-R2)

Speaker: Leo Zhadanovsky – Principal Solutions Architect

In this session, we discuss how to configure security for AWS CodePipeline, deployments in AWS CodeDeploy, builds in AWS CodeBuild, and git access with AWS CodeCommit. We discuss AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) best practices, to allow you to set up least-privilege access to these services. We also demonstrate how to ensure that your pipelines meet your security and compliance standards with the CodePipeline AWS Config integration, as well as manual approvals. Lastly, we show you best-practice patterns for integrating security testing of your deployment artifacts inside of your CI/CD pipelines.

[Chalk Talk] Amazon’s approach to automated testing (DOP317-R; DOP317-R1; DOP317-R2)

Speaker 1: Carlos Arguelles – Principal Engineer
Speaker 2: Charlie Roberts – Senior SDET

Join us for a session about how Amazon uses testing strategies to build a culture of quality. Learn Amazon’s best practices around load testing, unit testing, integration testing, and UI testing. We also discuss what parts of testing are automated and how we take advantage of tools, and share how we strategize to fail early to ensure minimum impact to end users.

[Chalk Talk] Building and deploying applications on AWS with Python (DOP319-R; DOP319-R1; DOP319-R2)

Speaker 1: James Saryerwinnie – Senior Software Engineer
Speaker 2: Kyle Knapp – Software Development Engineer

In this session, hear from core developers of the AWS SDK for Python (Boto3) as we walk through the design of sample Python applications. We cover best practices in using Boto3 and look at other libraries to help build these applications, including AWS Chalice, a serverless microframework for Python. Additionally, we discuss testing and deployment strategies to manage the lifecycle of your applications.

[Chalk Talk] Deploying AWS CloudFormation StackSets across accounts and Regions (DOP325-R; DOP325-R1)

Speaker 1: Mahesh Gundelly – Software Development Manager
Speaker 2: Prabhu Nakkeeran – Software Development Manager

AWS CloudFormation StackSets can be a critical tool to efficiently manage deployments of resources across multiple accounts and regions. In this session, we cover how AWS CloudFormation StackSets can help you ensure that all of your accounts have the proper resources in place to meet security, governance, and regulation requirements. We also cover how to make the most of the latest functionalities and discuss best practices, including how to plan for safe deployments with minimal blast radius for critical changes.

[Chalk Talk] Monitoring and observability of serverless apps using AWS X-Ray (DOP327-R; DOP327-R1; DOP327-R2)

Speaker 1 (R, R1, R2): Shengxin Li – Software Development Engineer
Speaker 2 (R, R1): Sirirat Kongdee – Solutions Architect
Speaker 3 (R2): Eric Scholz – Solutions Architect, Amazon

Monitoring and observability are essential parts of DevOps best practices. You need monitoring to debug and trace unhandled errors, performance bottlenecks, and customer impact in the distributed nature of a microservices architecture. In this chalk talk, we show you how to integrate the AWS X-Ray SDK to your code to provide observability to your overall application and drill down to each service component. We discuss how X-Ray can be used to analyze, identify, and alert on performance issues and errors and how it can help you troubleshoot application issues faster.

[Chalk Talk] Optimizing deployment strategies for speed & safety (DOP341-R; DOP341-R1; DOP341-R2)

Speaker: Karan Mahant – Software Development Manager, Amazon

Modern application development moves fast and demands continuous delivery. However, the greatest risk to an application’s availability can occur during deployments. Join us in this chalk talk to learn about deployment strategies for web servers and for Amazon EC2, container-based, and serverless architectures. Learn how you can optimize your deployments to increase productivity during development cycles and mitigate common risks when deploying to production by using canary and blue/green deployment strategies. Further, we share our learnings from operating production services at AWS.

[Chalk Talk] Continuous integration using AWS tools (DOP216-R; DOP216-R1; DOP216-R2)

Speaker: Richard Boyd – Sr Developer Advocate, Amazon Web Services

Today, more teams are adopting continuous-integration (CI) techniques to enable collaboration, increase agility, and deliver a high-quality product faster. Cloud-based development tools such as AWS CodeCommit and AWS CodeBuild can enable teams to easily adopt CI practices without the need to manage infrastructure. In this session, we showcase best practices for continuous integration and discuss how to effectively use AWS tools for CI.

re:Invent TIP #5: If you’re traveling to another session across campus, give yourself at least 60 minutes!

[Session] Migrating .Net frameworks to the cloud (DOP321) — SPACE AVAILABLE! REGISTER TODAY!

Speaker: Robert Zhu – Principal Technical Evangelist, Amazon Web Services

Learn how to migrate your .NET application to AWS with minimal steps. In this demo-heavy session, we share best practices for migrating a three-tiered application on ASP.NET and SQL Server to AWS. Throughout the process, you get to see how AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio can enable you to fully leverage AWS services such as AWS Elastic Beanstalk, modernizing your application for more agile and flexible development.

[Session] Best practices for authoring AWS CloudFormation (DOP302-R; DOP302-R1)

Speaker 1: Olivier Munn – Sr Product Manager Technical, Amazon Web Services
Speaker 2: Dan Blanco – Developer Advocate, Amazon Web Services

Incorporating infrastructure as code into software development practices can help teams and organizations improve automation and throughput without sacrificing quality and uptime. In this session, we cover multiple best practices for writing, testing, and maintaining AWS CloudFormation template code. You learn about IDE plug-ins, reusability, testing tools, modularizing stacks, and more. During the session, we also review sample code that showcases some of the best practices in a way that lends more context and clarity.

[Chalk Talk] Using AWS tools to author and debug applications (DOP215-R; DOP215-R1; DOP215-R2)

Speaker: Fabian Jakobs – Principal Engineer, Amazon Web Services

Every organization wants its developers to be faster and more productive. AWS Cloud9 lets you create isolated cloud-based development environments for each project and access them from a powerful web-based IDE anywhere, anytime. In this session, we demonstrate how to use AWS Cloud9 and provide an overview of IDE toolkits that can be used to author application code.

[Session] Deep dive into AWS Cloud Development Kit (DOP402-R; DOP402-R1)

Speaker 1: Elad Ben-Israel – Principal Software Engineer, Amazon Web Services
Speaker 2: Jason Fulghum – Software Development Manager, Amazon Web Services

The AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) is a multi-language, open-source framework that enables developers to harness the full power of familiar programming languages to define reusable cloud components and provision applications built from those components using AWS CloudFormation. In this session, you develop an AWS CDK application and learn how to quickly assemble AWS infrastructure. We explore the AWS Construct Library and show you how easy it is to configure your cloud resources, manage permissions, connect event sources, and build and publish your own constructs.

[Session] Introduction to the AWS CLI v2 (DOP406-R; DOP406-R1)

Speaker 1: James Saryerwinnie – Senior Software Engineer, Amazon Web Services
Speaker 2: Kyle Knapp – Software Development Engineer, Amazon Web Services

The AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) is a command-line tool for interacting with AWS services and managing your AWS resources. We’ve taken all of the lessons learned from AWS CLI v1 (launched in 2013), and have been working on AWS CLI v2—the next major version of the AWS CLI—for the past year. AWS CLI v2 includes features such as improved installation mechanisms, a better getting-started experience, interactive workflows for resource management, and new high-level commands. Come hear from the core developers of the AWS CLI about how to upgrade and start using AWS CLI v2 today.

[Session] What’s new in AWS CloudFormation (DOP408-R; DOP408-R1; DOP408-R2)

Speaker 1: Jing Ling – Senior Product Manager, Amazon Web Services
Speaker 2: Luis Colon – Senior Developer Advocate, Amazon Web Services

AWS CloudFormation is one of the most widely used AWS tools, enabling infrastructure as code, deployment automation, repeatability, compliance, and standardization. In this session, we cover the latest improvements and best practices for AWS CloudFormation customers in particular, and for seasoned infrastructure engineers in general. We cover new features and improvements that span many use cases, including programmability options, cross-region and cross-account automation, operational safety, and additional integration with many other AWS services.

[Workshop] Get hands-on with Python/boto3 with no or minimal Python experience (DOP203-R; DOP203-R1; DOP203-R2)

Speaker 1: Herbert-John Kelly – Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services
Speaker 2: Carl Johnson – Enterprise Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services

Learning a programming language can seem like a huge investment. However, solving strategic business problems using modern technology approaches, like machine learning and big-data analytics, often requires some understanding. In this workshop, you learn the basics of using Python, one of the most popular programming languages that can be used for small tasks like simple operations automation, or large tasks like analyzing billions of records and training machine-learning models. You also learn about and use the AWS SDK (software development kit) for Python, called boto3, to write a Python program running on and interacting with resources in AWS.

[Workshop] Building reusable AWS CloudFormation templates (DOP304-R; DOP304-R1; DOP304-R2)

Speaker 1: Chelsey Salberg – Front End Engineer, Amazon Web Services
Speaker 2: Dan Blanco – Developer Advocate, Amazon Web Services

AWS CloudFormation gives you an easy way to define your infrastructure as code, but are you using it to its full potential? In this workshop, we take real-world architecture from a sandbox template to production-ready reusable code. We start by reviewing an initial template, which you update throughout the session to incorporate AWS CloudFormation features, like nested stacks and intrinsic functions. By the end of the workshop, expect to have a set of AWS CloudFormation templates that demonstrate the same best practices used in AWS Quick Starts.

[Workshop] Building a scalable serverless application with AWS CDK (DOP306-R; DOP306-R1; DOP306-R2; DOP306-R3)

Speaker 1: David Christiansen – Senior Partner Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services
Speaker 2: Daniele Stroppa – Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services

Dive into AWS and build a web application with the AWS Mythical Mysfits tutorial. In this workshop, you build a serverless application using AWS Lambda, Amazon API Gateway, and the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK). Through the tutorial, you get hands-on experience using AWS CDK to model and provision a serverless distributed application infrastructure, you connect your application to a backend database, and you capture and analyze data on user behavior. Other AWS services that are utilized include Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose and Amazon DynamoDB.

[Chalk Talk] Assembling an AWS CloudFormation authoring tool chain (DOP313-R; DOP313-R1; DOP313-R2)

Speaker 1: Nathan McCourtney – Sr System Development Engineer, Amazon Web Services
Speaker 2: Dan Blanco – Developer Advocate, Amazon Web Services

In this session, we provide a prescriptive tool chain and methodology to improve your coding productivity as you create and maintain AWS CloudFormation stacks. We cover authoring recommendations from editors and plugins, to setting up a deployment pipeline for your AWS CloudFormation code.

[Chalk Talk] Build using JavaScript with AWS Amplify, AWS Lambda, and AWS Fargate (DOP315-R; DOP315-R1; DOP315-R2)

Speaker 1: Trivikram Kamat – Software Development Engineer, Amazon Web Services
Speaker 2: Vinod Dinakaran – Software Development Manager, Amazon Web Services

Learn how to build applications with AWS Amplify on the front end and AWS Fargate and AWS Lambda on the backend, and protocols (like HTTP/2), using the JavaScript SDKs in the browser and node. Leverage the AWS SDK for JavaScript’s modular NPM packages in resource-constrained environments, and benefit from the built-in async features to run your node and mobile applications, and SPAs, at scale.

[Chalk Talk] Scaling CI/CD adoption using AWS CodePipeline and AWS CloudFormation (DOP318-R; DOP318-R1; DOP318-R2)

Speaker 1: Andrew Baird – Principal Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services
Speaker 2: Neal Gamradt – Applications Architect, WarnerMedia

Enabling CI/CD across your organization through repeatable patterns and infrastructure-as-code templates can unlock development speed while encouraging best practices. The SEAD Architecture team at WarnerMedia helps encourage CI/CD adoption across their company. They do so by creating and maintaining easily extensible infrastructure-as-code patterns for creating new services and deploying to them automatically using CI/CD. In this session, learn about the patterns they have created and the lessons they have learned.