Post Syndicated from Rachel Richardson original https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/register-for-the-modern-applications-online-event/

Earlier this year we hosted the first serverless themed virtual event, the Serverless-First Function. We enjoyed the opportunity to virtually connect with our customers so much that we want to do it again. This time, we’re expanding the scope to feature serverless, containers, and front-end development content. The Modern Applications Online Event is scheduled for November 4-5, 2020.

This free, two-day event addresses how to build and operate modern applications at scale across your organization, enabling you to become more agile and respond to change faster. The event covers topics including serverless application development, containers best practices, front-end web development and more. If you missed the containers or serverless virtual events earlier this year, this is great opportunity to watch the content and interact directly with expert moderators. The full agenda is listed below.

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Organizational Level Operations

Wednesday, November 4, 2020, 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM PT

Move fast and ship things: Using serverless to increase speed and agility within your organization
In this session, Adrian Cockcroft demonstrates how you can use serverless to build modern applications faster than ever. Cockcroft uses real-life examples and customer stories to debunk common misconceptions about serverless.

Eliminating busywork at the organizational level: Tips for using serverless to its fullest potential 
In this session, David Yanacek discusses key ways to unlock the full benefits of serverless, including building services around APIs and using service-oriented architectures built on serverless systems to remove the roadblocks to continuous innovation.

Faster Mobile and Web App Development with AWS Amplify
In this session, Brice Pellé, introduces AWS Amplify, a set of tools and services that enables mobile and front-end web developers to build full stack serverless applications faster on AWS. Learn how to accelerate development with AWS Amplify’s use-case centric open-source libraries and CLI, and its fully managed web hosting service with built-in CI/CD.

Built Serverless-First: How Workgrid Software transformed from a Liberty Mutual project to its own global startup
Connected through a central IT team, Liberty Mutual has embraced serverless since AWS Lambda’s inception in 2014. In this session, Gillian McCann discusses Workgrid’s serverless journey—from internal microservices project within Liberty Mutual to independent business entity, all built serverless-first. Introduction by AWS Principal Serverless SA, Sam Dengler.

Market insights: A conversation with Forrester analyst Jeffrey Hammond & Director of Product for Lambda Ajay Nair
In this session, guest speaker Jeffrey Hammond and Director of Product for AWS Lambda, Ajay Nair, discuss the state of serverless, Lambda-based architectural approaches, Functions-as-a-Service platforms, and more. You’ll learn about the high-level and enduring enterprise patterns and advancements that analysts see driving the market today and determining the market in the future.

AWS Fargate Platform Version 1.4
In this session we will go through a brief introduction of AWS Fargate, what it is, its relation to EKS and ECS and the problems it addresses for customers. We will later introduce the concept of Fargate “platform versions” and we will then dive deeper into the new features that the new platform version 1.4 enables.

Persistent Storage on Containers
Containerizing applications that require data persistence or shared storage is often challenging since containers are ephemeral in nature, are scaled in and out dynamically, and typically clear any saved state when terminated. In this session you will learn about Amazon Elastic File System (EFS), a fully managed, elastic, highly-available, scalable, secure, high-performance, cloud native, shared file system that enables data to be persisted separately from compute for your containerized applications.

Security Best Practices on Amazon ECR
In this session, we will cover best practices with securing your container images using ECR. Learn how user access controls, image assurance, and image scanning contribute to securing your images.

Application Level Design

Thursday, November 5, 2020, 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM PT

Building a Live Streaming Platform with Amplify Video
In this session, learn how to build a live-streaming platform using Amplify Video and the platform powering it, AWS Elemental Live. Amplify video is an open source plugin for the Amplify CLI that makes it easy to incorporate video streaming into your mobile and web applications powered by AWS Amplify.

Building Serverless Web Applications
In this session, follow along as Ben Smith shows you how to build and deploy a completely serverless web application from scratch. The application will span from a mobile friendly front end to complex business logic on the back end.

Automating serverless application development workflows
In this talk, Eric Johnson breaks down how to think about CI/CD when building serverless applications with AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway. This session will cover using technologies like AWS SAM to build CI/CD pipelines for serverless application back ends.

Observability for your serverless applications
In this session, Julian Wood walks you through how to add monitoring, logging, and distributed tracing to your serverless applications. Join us to learn how to track platform and business metrics, visualize the performance and operations of your application, and understand which services should be optimized to improve your customer’s experience.

Happy Building with AWS Copilot
The hard part’s done. You and your team have spent weeks pouring over pull requests, building micro-services and containerizing them. Congrats! But what do you do now? How do you get those services on AWS? Copilot is a new command line tool that makes building, developing and operating containerized apps on AWS a breeze. In this session, we’ll talk about how Copilot helps you and your team set up modern applications that follow AWS best practices

CDK for Kubernetes
The CDK for Kubernetes (cdk8s) is a new open-source software development framework for defining Kubernetes applications and resources using familiar programming languages. Applications running on Kubernetes are composed of dozens of resources maintained through carefully maintained YAML files. As applications evolve and teams grow, these YAML files become harder and harder to manage. It’s also really hard to reuse and create abstractions through config files — copying & pasting from previous projects is not the solution! In this webinar, the creators of cdk8s show you how to define your first cdk8s application, define reusable components called “constructs” and generally say goodbye (and thank you very much) to writing in YAML.

Machine Learning on Amazon EKS
Amazon EKS has quickly emerged as a leading choice for machine learning workloads. In this session, we’ll walk through some of the recent ML related enhancements the Kubernetes team at AWS has released. We will then dive deep with walkthroughs of how to optimize your machine learning workloads on Amazon EKS, including demos of the latest features we’ve contributed to popular open source projects like Spark and Kubeflow

Deep Dive on Amazon ECS Capacity Providers
In this talk, we’ll dive into the different ways that ECS Capacity Providers can enable teams to focus more on their core business, and less on the infrastructure behind the scenes. We’ll look at the benefits and discuss scenarios where Capacity Providers can help solve the problems that customers face when using container orchestration. Lastly, we’ll review what features have been released with Capacity Providers, as well as look ahead at what’s to come.

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