AWS re:Invent 2018

The service mesh is becoming the most critical component of the cloud-native stack, with users ranging from small startups to Internet giants and traditional enterprises. While still early in terms of adoption, this new infrastructure layer has massive implications for the way companies build and operate distributed systems. In this session, SignalFx provides an overview of distributed systems and service instrumentation, then examines how a service mesh approach addresses inter-service communication, testing, and other fundamental challenges of adopting microservices architecture. Learn about the considerations for monitoring and observability, as well as the trade-offs, of implementing service mesh. This session is brought to you by AWS partner, SignalFx.

Even the best continuous delivery and DevOps practices cannot guarantee that there will be no issues in production. The rise of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) has promoted new ways to automate resilience into your system and applications to circumvent potential problems, but it's time to 'shift-left' this effort into engineering. In this session, learn to leverage AWS Lambda functions as 'remediation as code.' We show how to make it part of your continuous delivery process and orchestrate the invocation of Self-Healing Lambda functions in case of unexpected situations impacting the reliability of your system. Gone are the days of traditional operation teams-it's the rise of 'shift-lefters'! This session is brought to you by AWS partner, Dynatrace.

Coinbase is a secure online platform for buying, selling, transferring, and storing digital currency. This talk covers its journey from a small band of engineers working on reliability to a centralized SRE organization, and the lessons learned along the way. We dive into the processes that we created-both technical and organizational-that enabled us to quickly build a world-class reliability engineering group. We also cover what reliability really means, and more importantly, how we measure it. This session is brought to you by AWS partner, Datadog.

As a global media organization, Reuters delivers a wide array of event-specific content and applications tied to the news of the day. While the size and scale of each event may vary between a national election to regional breaking news, one thing they all have in common is that they are short-lived, topical, and time-critical. As a result, there is only one chance to get it right. The AWS Cloud is a perfect enabler for that, with a wide range of services. In this session Reuters shares its approach to building, managing, and monitoring robust systems for live events. This session is brought to you by AWS partner, Datadog.

Continuous delivery (CD) enables teams to be more agile and quickens the pace of innovation. Too often, however, teams adopt CD without putting the right safety mechanisms in place. In this talk, we discuss opportunities for you to transform your software release process into a safer one. We explore various DevOps best practices, showcasing sample applications and code with AWS CodePipeline and AWS CodeDeploy. We discuss how to set up delivery pipelines with nonproduction testing stages, failure cases, rollbacks, redundancy, canary testing and blue/green deployments, and monitoring. We discuss continuous delivery practices for deploying to Amazon EC2, AWS Lambda, and containers such as Amazon ECS or AWS Fargate.

In this demonstration-heavy session, we illustrate our latest techniques, tools, and libraries for developing end-to-end applications with .NET Core. We focus on serverless applications, but the techniques are broadly relevant. We start by showing you some useful features and best practices for authoring your serverless application, including debugging locally from the IDE and in production. From there, we demonstrate some helpful tools that make it easy to set up your CI/CD workflow from the start. Finally, we deploy our application with AWS Lambda.

Today, more teams are adopting continuous integration (CI) techniques to enable collaboration, increase agility, and deliver a high-quality product faster. Cloud-based development tools such as AWS CodeCommit and AWS CodeBuild can enable teams to easily adopt CI practices without the need to manage infrastructure. In this session, we showcase best practices for code reviews and continuous integration, drawing on practices used by Amazon engineering teams. We'll incorporate demos to not just explain the practices but show you how.

In this session, learn how AWS is helping enterprises adopt the DevOps model and automation in their journey to the cloud. By using the DevOps principle to treat your infrastructure environments as code, you can automate and easily scale your lifecycle environments. Learn how services like AWS CloudFormation and AWS OpsWorks enable you to automate your instance provisioning and configurations as code, ensuring consistent, compliant, and scalable cloud infrastructure. Understand how OpsWorks is enabling enterprises to accelerate their migration to the cloud, leveraging popular tools like Chef or Puppet and their respective communities. Please join us for a speaker meet-and-greet following this session at the Speaker Lounge (ARIA East, Level 1, Willow Lounge). The meet-and-greet starts 15 minutes after the session and runs for half an hour.

AWS CloudFormation is one of the most widely used tools in the AWS ecosystem, enabling infrastructure as code, deployment automation, repeatability, compliance and standardization. In this session, we cover the latest improvements and best practices for AWS CloudFormation customers in particular, and for seasoned infrastructure engineers in general. We cover new features and improvements that span many use cases, including programmability options, cross region and cross account automation, operational safety, and additional integration with many other AWS services.

We're working on a new major version of the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), a command-line tool for interacting with AWS services and managing your AWS resources. AWS CLI v2 will include features to improve workflows and make it even easier to manage AWS resources through the AWS CLI. Come hear from the core developers of the AWS CLI as we highlight some of the new features and major improvements in AWS CLI v2. Please join us for a speaker meet-and-greet following this session at the Speaker Lounge (ARIA East, Level 1, Willow Lounge). The meet-and-greet starts 15 minutes after the session and runs for half an hour.