Exploring AWS for fun and profit
How did Amazon, known to the world as an online retailer, manage to make cloud services a multi-billion dollar subsidiary? What is it that AWS offers that makes it so enticing for both solo development, as well as large enterprises like Netflix?
In this session we will take our first baby steps towards AWS. We will take a quick glance at what AWS is and what it has to offer, and then see what it takes to lay out a minimal setup for an a simple application which includes setting up a compute, backed by a database, DNS and routing, as well as leveraging additional services like S3 for storage.
About Raju Gandhi
Raju is a software craftsman with almost 20 years of hands-on experience scoping, architecting, designing, implementing full stack applications.
He provides a 360 view of the development cycle, is proficient in a variety of programming languages and paradigms, experienced with software development methodologies, as well an expert in infrastructure and tooling.
He has long been in the pursuit of hermeticism across the development stack by championing immutability during development (with languages like Clojure), deployment (leveraging tools like Docker and Kubernetes), and provisioning and configuration via code (toolkits like Ansible, Terraform, Packer, everything-as-code).
Raju is a published author, internationally known public speaker and trainer.
Raju can be found on Twitter as @looselytyped.
In his spare time, you will find Raju reading, playing with technology, or spending time with his wonderful (and significantly better) other half.