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I attended AWS summit NYC on Midweek in addition to Thursday. As an academician, this was a niggling unconventional conference for me to attend. I regularly attend ACM, IEEE query conferences on focused areas (wireless networks, distributed systems, self-stabilization), simply I wanted to give-up the ghost out of my comfort zone to larn most the problems AWS in addition to the AWS ecosystem are working on. Today AWS is leading the cloud computing market, in addition to the AWS infrastructure in addition to platform is an amazing feat of engineering, to enjoin the least. Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO, has non received a fraction of the genius CEO condition alloted to Steve Jobs, simply past times all accounts Jeff Bezos is non whatsoever less deserving. (Read Steve Yegge's platforms rants to come across how inwards 2002 Amazon started an enormous concerted assay for edifice upwards its platforms to give-up the ghost what they are today.)

I arrived at 2pm on Midweek to attend the "cloud kata for start-ups". The refer sounds exciting, right? And, they promised powerpoint gratis presentations! Wonderful, correct Unfortunately the presentations all the same turned out to live canned in addition to dry, for the most part. Instead of powerpoint slides, the speakers dashed through pre-recorded screencast videos, in addition to I experienced the screencast version of death-by-bulletpoint. The work alongside screencast videos is it has the potential to combine the very-fast measuring of powerpoint presentations spell lacking the construction "potentially" provided past times powerpoint. The session contents also did non convey much to create alongside the startups in addition to their needs. As a lawsuit I got underwhelmed, simply fortunately, this turned out to live a simulated alarm. Werner Vogels, Amazon VP & CTO, wowed people alongside his keynote the adjacent day, giving an energetic in addition to concise-to-the-point presentation. Day 2 was a blast, in addition to I had a lot of fun. I volition post service my twenty-four hr menstruum 2 notes soon. Read on for my curt twenty-four hr menstruum 1 notes.

The presentations inwards the cloud-kata for start-ups session ended upwards giving curt introductions to several AWS services. Some of these are every bit follows. Elastic cache service adds a scalable in addition to configurable cache layer betwixt your database in addition to applications. Cloud formation service provides a templating service where yous tin get-go cloud former, generate a template for your AWS organization deployment configuration (e.g., a elementary LAMP in addition to elastic charge balancer front-end cluster) in addition to shop the template on AWS S3. Later yous tin replicate the same deployment inwards approximately other portion alongside i ascendency using this template. Opsworks, a real recent service from AWS, provides assistance for functioning administration in addition to edifice workflows. In Opsworks, yous tin purpose chef recipes, custom json, add together layers (phplayer, MySQL layer), adapt deportment for highload periods, in addition to specify additional machines coming upwards at for certain times of twenty-four hr menstruum to help. Finally, AWS Redshift provides a fast, powerful, in addition to fully managed petabyte-scale information warehouse service inwards the cloud. It offers yous fast query performance for real large datasets using SQL-based tools.

Some startups that based their operations on AWS also presented inwards the session every bit well. Datadog presented a web-based AWS monitoring tool, which provides monitoring in addition to elementary analytics of Nagios alerts every bit a service. Sumall presented their "analytics for modest business", which aims to brand getting in addition to visualizing information easy. Sumall gathers information from the business's Google-analytics, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook pages inwards club to analyze if at that spot are relationships alongside sales in addition to these social networks activity related to the company. Lastly, Codecademy provides an interactive website to enable interactive learning of programming languages.

After the session finished at 5:30pm, I walked to Google NYC  to watch a educatee of mine who joined at that spot later PhD. The walk was real nice, due to the beautiful boundary conditions inwards NYC. Google had bought a real large edifice inwards Manhattan, in all likelihood costed them a lot of money. The within decor was also real modern, alongside a lot of opened upwards infinite for the developers to relax in addition to mingle. Probably that also costed a fortune.

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