AWS re:Invent 2014

The AWS SDK for Java contains many powerful tools for working with AWS, some of which you might not know about. In this session, we take a tour through the different layers of the SDK with a focus on the newest features of the SDK. We cover a wide variety of tips and best practices to show you how to take advantage of the SDK to improve your AWS development productivity. Learn about client-side data encryption, high-level APIs, tips for securely handling your credentials, and the newly released AWS Resource APIs.

Version 2 of the AWS SDK for Ruby adds a number of new features to help reduce the amount of code that you need to write. We will discuss and walk through code sample for new features such as the Resource APIs, paginators, waiters, and more. Attendees will leave this session having a firm grasp on Version 2 of the AWS SDK for Ruby.

AWS provides the tools that Windows developers have come to expect. In this session, you learn about the easy-to-use abstractions included in the AWS SDK for .NET. We demonstrate how the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio helps to streamline your iterative dev-test cycle. You also see how the AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell enables you to create powerful automation scripts.

For both new and experienced users of the AWS SDK for PHP, we highlight features of the SDK as we work through building a simple, scalable PHP application. Attendees will learn about core features of the SDK including service clients, iterators, and waiters. We will also introduce new features in the upcoming Version 3 of the SDK, including asynchronous requests, paginators, and the new JMESPath result querying syntax.

JavaScript is the ubiquitous runtime for browser code, and the popularity of Node.js as a server-side platform continues to grow. The AWS SDKs for Node.js and JavaScript in the Browser enable you to call AWS services from either platform. In this talk, we demonstrate the portability of the SDK by building a Node.js web app and then porting the code to run as a browser extension. In the process, you'll learn about a number of the productivity features included in these SDKs.

In this session, we introduce Boto 3, the next major version of the AWS SDK for Python. You will learn about the new features in the SDK, such as the high-level resource APIs that simplify working with AWS collections and objects, and the eventing model that enables customizing your calls to AWS services. We use a sample application to demonstrate these features, and show how to integrate them with your existing projects.

The challenge facing developers today is to reduce the time between writing code and getting it into production, all while maintaining quality. What's needed is a workflow built upon highly integrated and automated tools so that developers can focus on building new features. This session demonstrates plugging together an end-to-end release workflow, including code review, acceptance testing, branch deployments, and chat ops, all using GitHub and Travis CI.

Learn how you can leverage the many Netflix Open Source tools to help grow your services to web-scale, and make them robust and resilient. We cover a variety of the OSS components-from operational tools like Asgard and Simian Army, to core services and libraries like Zuul, Eureka, Archaius, and Hystrix, plus a variety of security and big data tools. We walk through a sample application to illustrate how the many components fit together to build a cohesive solution.

Enterprises are no longer asking ''Should I move to the cloud?''; instead they're asking ''When and how fast can I adopt the cloud?''. Key questions that we hear from enterprise customers include: Where do I start? What are the technical skill sets needed? What are the necessary skills for architecting cloud applications and hybrid applications? Who will take care of operations on a day to day basis? How do I monitor my cloud for costs, security, availability, performance? Is my organization ready for DevOps, and when does that become important? What specific roles will I need to develop? If any of these questions are familiar to you, attend this session and learn about the skills, learning opportunities, and training available to build the technical and operational capability to take advantage of the AWS cloud. Expect to walk out with a mental roadmap of the cloud skillset you want to develop for your team.

Netflix's migration to the cloud as our primary streaming control plane was paralleled by ourmove from traditional IT and centralized operations to a more decentralized DevOpsorganizational model. In this session, we explore the relationship between technicalinfrastructure and organization and how to find the right balance of centralized anddecentralized operations. We also cover the rationale, goals, strategies, and technologiesapplied to accomplish this daunting task. We reflect on where we stand today and howwe've realized many of our goals.