Follow the journey of a fictional technology startup, as they struggle to keep up with increasing infrastructure demands of their unexpectedly popular web application. Starting with a single manually deployed instance in a single region, and watch as the project grows across multiple regions, and ultimately to a globally distributed application in 14 AWS datacenters around the world. Attendees will help with the 'load testing' of a distributed application, and observe responses from all over the world. Learn how to deploy and manage infrastructure as code, using familiar tools such as text editor of choice, Git, Jenkins, and AWS Cloudformation.

Eric Miller is an accomplished tech leader, with 17 years of years of career success in Solutions Architecture, IT Operations, Automation, and Build/Deploy workflows. Career emphasis on designing and deploying distributed, scalable, highly available, systems on Amazon Web Services. Possesses a demonstrable track record of success with lift‐and‐shift premise to cloud migrations, re-engineering legacy applications to be cloud-aware, and translating complex customer requirements into delivered solutions in greenfield app dev projects. Experience includes:

• Software Development Lifecycle:from requirements analysis through planning, testing, implementation, support and customer handoff.
• Agile methodologies: facilitating collaboration between self‐organizing, cross‐functional distributed teams.
• Full stack in the cloud: intuitively understanding the right components to consider, and why, at every tier when developing cloud‐aware solutions.
• Cloud design principles and best practices:scalability, automation, loose coupling, security, disaster recovery, cost management, and t, and sensitivity to non functional requirements during the design process.
• Microservices/Serverless code: AWS Lambda and Docker.
• Custom APIs: Python bottle / flask JSON web services backed by AWS dynamoDB.
• Infrastructure as Code: deploying and managing infrastructure at scale, repeatably and consistently with AWS CloudFormation templates.
• Software Defined Networking: Virtual Private Cloud network design, Route53 DNS, Elastic Load Balancing, Multi‐Availability Zone failover.
• Configuration Management: host / server provisioning and management with Docker, Desired State Configuration (Windows environments), Chef (Linux environments)
• Jenkins Build Server: distributed builds with slave clustering.
• Octopus Deploy: consistent multi‐environment deployments.
• Workflow customization and bespoke automation with Python, Bash, and Powershell.

Agenda:

6:00PM - Introductions, food, drink, and networking
6:30PM - Presentations begin

Big thanks to TEKsystems for sponsoring the event.

To keep up to date with future meeting information, please subscribe to the LOPSA Columbus mailing list.