In Case You Missed It: Day One of Collision 2019

An Introduction to AWS for Developers: Day One

Brand new to AWS or interested in learning more about how you can get started with the AWS Cloud to build your next app or your next startup? Join this session and learn more about application development, deployment and operations on AWS, why AWS is the most popular platform for technology startups, and how you can use the AWS Cloud to serve your first customer and scale to serve your first 100 million customers.

INFOSEC Controls and Combats Real-World Threats

This session will walk through protective, detective, and reactive security controls. It will then go through some current real-world threats—like crypto-mining, DDOS, and ransomware—and examples of protective, detective, and reactive controls for managing these threats in a cloud environment.

Making Sense of Machine Learning for Your Organization

Machine learning helps your organization leverage data to provide immense value across almost every part of the stack — but where do you begin? Amidst the excitement to tap into this novel technology, the questions quickly mount: how can it help me, what do I need to know, and how do I get started? In this talk, we’ll lay the groundwork by reviewing the basics of machine learning applications before exploring the different services available for machine learning on AWS. We’ll finish by reviewing the tradeoffs between the different methods, and leave you with questions you can take back to your organization to figure out which methodology is best for you.

An Introduction to Deep Learning

Machine learning helps your organization leverage data to provide immense value across almost every part of the stack — but where do you begin? Amidst the excitement to tap into this novel technology, the questions quickly mount: how can it help me, what do I need to know, and how do I get started? In this talk, we’ll lay the groundwork by reviewing the basics of machine learning applications before exploring the different services available for machine learning on AWS. We’ll finish by reviewing the tradeoffs between the different methods, and leave you with questions you can take back to your organization to figure out which methodology is best for you.

Porting Your Web App to Serverless in 30 Minutes

This live-coding session will guide you through the process of migrating an existing Express application to AWS Lambda. We will analyze the existing application, decompose it into Lambda functions, reshape the frontend as a static website, and finally deploy it to the Cloud. Throughout this step-by-step process, you will learn the benefits of serverless and how it will change the way you think of scalability, availability, security, infrastructure management, and cost optimization.

Using Containers, Part 1: How to Containerize Anything!

In this session, we will start with our simple application and work through the process of making it run in a container locally on our laptop. We’ll talk about the process of building Docker containers, what makes them efficient, and a few security best-practices. We’ll end with pushing our container to ECR so we can deploy it in a follow-up session.

Running .Net Core and Microsoft Workloads on AWS

Come find how .Net Core and Windows .Net Applications are first class citizens on AWS. This session is good for any developer who has background in .NET development or is interested in developing opensource .NET Core applications running in AWD Cloud. We will cover tools AWS Cloud provides to develop, build, deploy, and run .NET Core Application on AWS.