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02:44 – Alex Wood Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub

03:09 – Trevor Rowe Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub

03:26 – What is offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS)?

• Elastic Beanstalk
• OpsWorks
  • Alex's RailsConf 2015 Workshop

06:48 – Setup and Taking Incremental Steps (The Cloud as a Paradigm)

• Identity and Access Management
• “Make sure everything works”

12:19 – CloudFormation

• Tooling
  • aws-sdk-ruby

15:19 – Data-Centric Services (Monitoring, Traceability, Visibility)

• CloudFormation
• S3
• CloudFront
• Simple Email Service (SES)
• Simple Queuing Service (SQS)
• Simple Notification Service (SNS)
• DynamoDB
• AWS Lambda
  • Amazon EC2 Container Service
  • Logging
    • CloudTrail
    • CloudWatch
    • CloudWatch Logs

23:48 – When to Use What (Getting Started)

• Simplicity vs Control

26:07 – Making Apps Run Better, General Optimizations

• Route 53

33:43 – Implementing AWS

• “Eat the elephant one bite at a time”

37:15 – Security

• Creating Visibility Without Opening an SSH Port    
  • CloudWatch
  • CloudWatch Logs
• Running Inside a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
• Why doesn’t security happen?

47:51 – Maintaining and Continually Improving Within Teams (Scalability)

56:33 – AWS Resources

• AWS Official Blog
  • AWS Ruby Development Blog
• [GitHub] AWS  

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Interview with Laurent Bossavit of the 10X Programmer and other Myths in Software Engineering (Jessica)
Paracord (Chuck)
Alex's RailsConf 2015 Workshop (Alex)
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein (Alex)
Kalzumeus Podcast (Alex)
Gitter (Trevor)
AWS Ruby Development Blog (Trevor)