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02:44 - Alex Wood Introduction
03:09 - Trevor Rowe Introduction
03:26 - What is offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS)?
06:48 - Setup and Taking Incremental Steps (The Cloud as a Paradigm)
- Identity and Access Management
- “Make sure everything works”
12:19 - CloudFormation
- Tooling
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
23:48 - When to Use What (Getting Started)
- Simplicity vs Control
26:07 - Making Apps Run Better, General Optimizations
33:43 - Implementing AWS
- “Eat the elephant one bite at a time”
37:15 - Security
- Creating Visibility Without Opening an SSH Port
- 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
Picks
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)
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