Generative AI tools that can generate code suggestions, such as Amazon CodeWhisperer, are growing rapidly in popularity. Join this chalk talk to learn how Amazon CodeWhisperer can accelerate and enhance your software development with code generation, reference tracking, security scans, and more. Learn best practices for prompt engineering, and get tips and tricks that can help you be more productive when building applications.

Traditionally, building applications requires developers to spend a lot of time manually writing code and trying to learn and keep up with new frameworks, SDKs, and libraries. In the last three years, AI models have grown exponentially in complexity and sophistication, enabling the creation of tools like Amazon CodeWhisperer that can generate code suggestions in real time based on a natural language description of the task. Join this session to learn how Amazon CodeWhisperer can accelerate and enhance your software development with code generation, reference tracking, security scans, and more.

Developing software can be difficult and expensive. Throughout the software development lifecycle, developers need a way to easily identify and troubleshoot errors or defects in their code. In parallel, as the cost of detecting and fixing defects in software increases with time, software development managers need a unified console to triage software issues before they reach a production environment. This chalk talk outlines how developers can use Amazon CodeCatalyst to create a test plan for unit tests and code coverage and use dependency checks to help ensure code releases without vulnerabilities.

Software developers spend a significant amount of time orchestrating tools, technologies, processes, and people to build and deliver modern applications. Amazon CodeCatalyst brings together everything software development teams need to plan, code, build, test, and deploy applications into a streamlined, integrated experience. In this session we will show you how to build .Net and PowerShell projects in a CodeCatalyst cloud Dev Environment. We will then create a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline to deploy the project to AWS Lambda.

You’ve built and deployed your first app on Amazon CodeCatalyst – great! But now your users are hungry for technical details and you need a docs page, stat. Join this session to see how you can use CodeCatalyst to build a production-ready website that is set up for long-term success. We will create the project in real time, add collaborators to populate content, and deploy a site that you can access online – all in under a half an hour.

Build and Host React Web Application with GraphQL on AWS Workshop AWS Solutions Day - New York City Abstract: Modern web applications are developed using JavaScript web frameworks like React, Angular, Vue, Next.js and Nuxt.js. GraphQL has emerged as an API approach that simplifies data access and improves the performance of applications by enabling developers to fetch only the data they need for a view in a web or mobile application.

Visually build extensible, full-stack apps faster with AWS Amplify Abstract: AWS Amplify lets frontend and full-stack web and mobile developers quickly build feature-rich apps on AWS with the flexibility to access over 200 AWS services as use cases evolve. Amplify Studio is a new visual development environment that lets developers build and ship complete apps in hours instead of weeks. In this session, learn how you can build an app backend; create custom UI components; allow designers to customize components in Figma, which can then be imported into Amplify Studio; and connect a UI to an app backend with minimal coding.

Accelerate frontend web and mobile development with AWS Amplify Abstract: User-facing web and mobile applications are the primary touchpoint between organizations and their customers. To meet the ever-rising bar for customer experience, developers must deliver high-quality applications with both foundational and differentiating features. AWS Amplify helps frontend web and mobile developers build full-stack applications faster. This session reviews AWS Amplify’s core capabilities, including authentication, data, file storage, and geolocation, and introduces new capabilities such as extensibility features for easier backend customization with AWS services.

Best practices for continuous testing and observability Abstract: In this session, discover how to improve the resiliency of your applications through continuous resilience testing. Learn best practices for continuous testing using testing and observability tools such as AWS Fault Injection Simulator and Amazon DevOps Guru. View the recording Co-presented with Adnan Bilwani.

Implementing release management strategies for CI/CD Pipelines Workshop Abstract: This workshop will guide you through building CI/CD Pipelines with release management best practices, including artifact management as well as zero downtime release promotion and rollback mechanisms. We will evaluate various rollback/roll forward strategies across compute types and assess the need for manual processes. The workshop instructions are here. Co-presented with Viyoma Sachdeva.

Enterprise Analytics workshop Webinar on moving a data warehouse from SQL Server to Redshift using Database Migration Services (DMS) and Schema Conversion Tool (SCT). https://dev8014.d2kkzha2beqo1p.amplifyapp.com/

The Quilt 2020 Winter Member Meeting I’ll be presenting The Quilt Member Meeting in San Diego today. I’ll cover the following topics: Overview of AWS Global Infrastructure Recent Announcements – Local Zones Recent Announcements – Wavelength Recent Announcements – Outposts Recent Announcements – HPC Advances Partnership Opportunities for RENs Link to the event

Performance instrumentation and monitoring for .NET applications I’ll be presenting the following session at re:Invent 2020. Are you confident you can quickly identify service problems and resolve performance issues at scale? Isolating and remediating performance problems in the cloud, particularly with modern, distributed microservice architectures, can pose unique challenges. This session shows you how to capture logs, metrics, and telemetry for .NET applications across servers, containers, serverless architectures, and related components.

A life-cycle approach to governance, compliance, and audit I’ll be presenting the following Chalk Talk twice at re:Invent 2019. Ongoing implementation of regulations by governments across a variety of industries requires organizations to adopt enterprise solutions that fulfill needs relating to compliance, audit, and overall risk management. Join us to learn more about how Amazon CloudWatch, AWS CloudFormation, AWS Config, and AWS CloudTrail can help with enhanced controls, beginning with resource provisioning through to monitoring, remediation, event audit, and issue investigation.

Manage Windows instances at scale with Systems Manager I’ll be presenting the following workshop at re:Invent 2019. Get hands-on experience managing Windows servers with AWS Systems Manager. Examples include the life cycle of an application, automating the creation and management of a “golden AMI,” domain join, application installation, patching, and collecting inventory. Experience with Windows administration and PowerShell are expected for this session. Please bring a laptop (and charger) for the hands-on exercises.

High-velocity service delivery: Infrastructure as code I’ll be presenting the following Chalk Talk three times at re:Invent 2019. Customers today are looking to the cloud to help them evolve, adapt, and innovate faster than ever. In this chalk talk, learn how to use AWS native services to increase your organization’s ability to deliver at high velocity using services like AWS CloudFormation, AWS OpsWorks, and AWS Systems Manager. We talk about best practices to help you provision and manage infrastructure, deploy code, and automate your software-release processes.

Advancing to the Cloud with Amazon Web Services I’ll be presenting at EDUCAUSE today. You can see details here.

Presented a webinar to researchers along with Carahsoft.

Presented to students in a summer program on machine learning.

AWS Direct Connect and Transit Gateway I’ll be presenting to the Internet2 Cloud Community on how to use Internet2’s Cloud Connect with AWS Direct Connect and Transit Gateway. You can see details here.

Cyber Carpentry I’ll be presenting for the second year on HPC, Machine Learning, and Big Data to researchers from around the globe today in Arcot Rajasekar Cyber Carpentry Workshop at UNC. You can see details here.

Self-service remediation, managing configuration drift, & automation I’ll be presenting the following Chalk Talk at Chicago AWS Public Sector Summit 2019. https://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/selfservice-remediation-managing-configuration-drift-automation-svc311-chicago-aws-summit?qid=c35e3140-0788-4b75-b57e-93d8760245d0&v=&b=&from_search=25

Improve operations with AWS Systems Manager OpsCenter I’ll be presenting the following Chalk Talk at the New York Summit 2019. https://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/improve-operations-with-aws-systems-manager-opscenter-svc310-new-york-aws-summit?qid=c35e3140-0788-4b75-b57e-93d8760245d0&v=&b=&from_search=23

Microsoft SQL Server Migration Strategies I’ll be presenting the following Silent Disco talk at the Public Sector Summit 2019 in Washington, DC. Migrating SQL Server databases to the cloud is a critical part of a cloud journey and requires planning and architectural considerations. In this session, we cover best practices and guidelines in migrating and/or architecting a hybrid SQL Server architecture on AWS. We compare and contrast various migration methods, including SQL export, backup and restore, and using AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS).