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Join us on October 22nd for the next edition of Serverless London Meetup. The event will be in person!

*** 🎫 Tickets

No Eventbrite tickets for this event but there is a hard limit for RSPV :)

*** 📍Location The event is hosted at the Spinks Office

The full address is: 3 Noble St, City of London, London EC2V 7EE

*** 🕚 Rough timings • 6:30 pm - 7:00 pm: Doors open with refreshments • 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm: Talks and Q&A • 8:30 pm onwards: Pub!

*** 📣 Speakers: Victoria Demina \| Software Engineer, AWS Community Builder Talk title: Your Serverless Application Is Fast, Your Third-Party Is Not! Description: Our serverless app scales effortlessly – but what happens when your third-party API lags behind? Payment processors, shipping providers, and external data sources don’t always scale at Lambda speed, leading to timeouts, stressed on-calls, and frustrated users.

Rajesh Kumar \|Technical Account Manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS) Talk title: Remove PII data from images using a fully serverless solution on AWS.

Sponsors ☁️ 💫 aleios We help startups disrupt and large organisations to remain competitive using the best of Cloud-Native, Serverless. Experts in delivery of highly scalable systems we connect people, liberate data and create innovation through technology.

🍷 Theodo Theodo are a team of 50+ agile web, mobile and software experts are based in Soho Square, London with offices in Paris and New York.

Over the last 10 years and across over 500 projects, we have partnered with non-technical founders to launch their first product, FTSE 100 companies to increase market share through launching internal startups & spearheading digital transformation initiatives, and SME CTOs to build and scale their technical teams.

Theodo projects start fast, and progress even faster, with our unique methodology combining agile, lean and DevOps allowing us to build more efficiently as the project progresses. We are experts at React Native, Serverless, React, Django/Python, Node.js and Symfony, with experience in many other frameworks.

DevOps Society Meetup – Wednesday 1st October @6PM

Location: Zilch Offices, London - 111 Buckingham Palace Rd, London SW1W 0SR

We’re excited to invite you to our next DevOps Society Meetup, hosted by Zilch in London. This event brings together the DevOps and cloud-native community for an evening of conversation, learning, and networking.

A huge thank you to Zilch for sponsoring this event, and for providing the venue, refreshments, and support!

Format of the Meetup:

6:00pm – 6:30pm — Networking on arrival, with pizza and drinks provided by Zilch 6:30pm – 7:10pm — First speakers will take to the stage 7:10pm – 7:20pm — Break for refreshments and networking 7:20pm – 8:00pm — Second speaker will take to the stage 8:00pm onwards — More networking at the venue and then at a nearby pub

Timings can vary depending on the length of the Q&A after each talk!

We are delighted to welcome three fantastic speakers to our event at Zilch, across two talks.

SPEAKERS 1 & 2 – Nick Gilbert & Sean Hederman

Nick Gilbert – DevOps Engineer III at Zilch

Nick Gilbert is a Senior DevOps Engineer with a decade of experience working across public and private cloud systems. He has worked extensively with CI/CD and immutable infrastructure, focusing on modernising on-premise solutions into cloud-native architectures. Since joining Zilch, Nick has enhanced system capabilities to shorten feedback loops, improve the developer experience, and increase the reliability of CI/CD pipelines.

Sean Hederman – CTO at Zilch

With nearly three decades of experience in technology delivery and leadership, Sean Hederman has been instrumental in shaping Zilch’s technological evolution as Chief Technology Officer. He previously held senior roles in technology and DevOps at leading organisations, gaining deep expertise in building and scaling enterprise-grade systems. At Zilch, Sean designed and built the company’s foundational technology and platforms, scaling the team from just a few engineers to more than 120 specialists across multiple disciplines and regions. Originally from South Africa and now based in London, Sean is a recognised thought leader in AI and a leading voice in software engineering, architecture, and DevSecOps.

Talk Title: ZOE and Zephyrs: An Overview of Our Journey to Ephemeral Environments at Zilch

Nick and Sean will take us through the architecture, challenges, and triumphs of establishing ephemeral environments at Zilch.

They’ll share insights into:

• How Kubernetes, ArgoCD, and AWS power ephemeral environments at scale, at Zilch.
• The organisational and technical hurdles they had to overcome
• The wins (and lessons learned) from adopting ephemeral environments in a fast-paced fintech environment

Expect a candid walkthrough of what it really takes to make ephemeral environments reliable, scalable, and developer-friendly.

SPEAKER 3 – Dhruv Parekh

Senior DevOps Engineer at EDF

Dhruv Parekh is a Senior DevOps Engineer at EDF, specialising in cloud engineering and automation. With over 4 years of experience in building scalable DevOps solutions, Dhruv focuses on driving automation strategies that go beyond the basics of infrastructure as code, bringing a holistic approach to engineering efficiency and business value. Dhruv is also a valued member of our community, holding the "Ambassador for Terraform" title!

Talk Title: Automating Beyond Terraform

When people hear DevOps automation, many think of Terraform plans and YAML pipelines. While powerful, they’re only part of the picture. In this talk, Dhruv explores what it means to automate beyond Terraform:

• Using Python to stitch together cross-cloud tasks and business logic Terraform can’t reach
• Building dashboards with Power BI to bring automation full circle, telling the story of your platform
• Thinking like a solution architect to design scalable, observable automations that deliver lasting value, not just quick fixes

By the end of this talk, you’ll see automation not just as code, but as a way to design the entire lifecycle of change, from idea to insight.

Please RSVP to book your spot. Space is limited, so it’s first come, first served! We look forward to seeing you all there.

Ben & Vytas – Co-organisers.

Join us on September 17th for the next edition of Serverless London Meetup. The event will be in person!

*** 🎫 Tickets

No Eventbrite tickets for this event but there is a hard limit for RSPV :)

*** 📍Location

The full address is: Moonpig Office, 3 Herbal House, 10 Back Hill, London, EC1R 5EN

*** 🕚 Rough timings • 6:30 pm - 7:00 pm: Doors open with refreshments • 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm: Talks and Q&A • 8:30 pm onwards: Pub!

*** 📣 Talks Speaker 1: Alexis Lowe Alexis Lowe is a Principal Engineer at Moonpig, specialising in security, site reliability, and developer experience. With a strong background in DevSecOps and infrastructure automation, he focuses on building resilient systems while integrating security into development workflows. Passionate about knowledge-sharing, Alexis mentors engineers, contributes to open-source projects and continuously works on self improvement.

Talk title: Scaling Moonpig's Serverless Backend: Event-Driven Federation at Scale Description: Join Alexis, Principal Engineer at Moonpig, as he shares insights into building and scaling a robust, federated backend architecture using AWS serverless technologies like Lambda, SNS, SQS, and DynamoDB. Learn how their event-driven design and tailored caching strategies ensure performance, scalability, and flexibility to meet diverse client requirements, along with a preview of upcoming enhancements aimed at further optimising system responsiveness.

Speaker 2: Ryan Cormack Ryan works at Motorway as a Principal Engineer helping teams with their continued cloud adoption and driving strong AWS engineering practices across the whole tech organisation.

Talk title: APIs in the Fastlane Description: Have you ever found an API whose documentation and SDK were out of sync? I'll look at how tools like Smithy allow us to define an API Schema, then automatically generate the documentation, SDK and server side code for you, ensure your docs, SDKs and clients always stay in sync, and then how we can use this to scaffold a serverless API using API Gateway and Lambda.

Sponsors ☁️ 💫 aleios We help startups disrupt and large organisations to remain competitive using the best of Cloud-Native, Serverless. Experts in delivery of highly scalable systems we connect people, liberate data and create innovation through technology.

🍷 Theodo Theodo are a team of 50+ agile web, mobile and software experts are based in Soho Square, London with offices in Paris and New York.

Over the last 10 years and across over 500 projects, we have partnered with non-technical founders to launch their first product, FTSE 100 companies to increase market share through launching internal startups & spearheading digital transformation initiatives, and SME CTOs to build and scale their technical teams.

Theodo projects start fast, and progress even faster, with our unique methodology combining agile, lean and DevOps allowing us to build more efficiently as the project progresses. We are experts at React Native, Serverless, React, Django/Python, Node.js and Symfony, with experience in many other frameworks.

Welcome to the DevSecOps London Gathering July Event on Wednesday 23rd July! 📍 Hosted at Veracode, 36 Queen Street, London 📅 Wednesday, 23rd July 🕕 6:00–8:00 PM

This month, we’re diving into a real-world DevSecOps success story - one that saved $20K annually and made open-source work harder and more securely in production.

🎤 Talk Title: How We Saved $20K Annually by Hosting Our Own Map Server on AWS Using TileServer Speaker: Vimal Paliwal (AWS Community Builder & Cloud Architect)

Talk Synopsis: When map service costs began increasing and compliance requirements demanded expensive licensing upgrades, Vim and his team made the move to a self-hosted TileServer solution on AWS, cutting costs by around 97% annually.

In this talk, Vim will take us through:

• Why and how the switch to TileServer happened
• The serverless AWS architecture behind the scenes
• Challenges with generating and managing map data
• The security controls layered in, including WAF, CloudFront Functions, Lambda Authorizer, and VPC Link
• Lessons learned and best practices for anyone scaling open-source solutions in the cloud

Whether you’re working on cloud cost optimisation, building secure infra, or scaling open-source in production, this is one to catch.

As always, there’ll be drinks, snacks, and networking with the community!

🎟️ RSVP now and join us on July 23rd!

Join the community: Can't make it to the event? Keep up to date with our activities on LinkedIn & Twitter

Join us on June 11th for the next edition of Serverless London Meetup. The event will be in person!

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🎫 Tickets

No Eventbrite tickets for this event but there is a hard limit for RSPV :)

***

📍Location The event is hosted at the Spinks Office

The full address is: 3 Noble St, City of London, London EC2V 7EE

***

🕚 Rough timings • 6:30 pm - 7:00 pm: Doors open with refreshments • 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm: Talks and Q&A • 8:30 pm onwards: Pub!

*** 📣 Talks Diana Ionita: Serverless Consultant Talk title: My AI Coding Partner - How I Built The London Improv Calendar Description: It started with a need in the improv community and became a journey with AI. As a backend dev, I'll take you through solo-building the London Improv Calendar (improv-calendar.co.uk) - from architecting a cost-efficient serverless backend to crafting a responsive frontend with AI's help. I'll cover the fun bits, the frustrating AI moments, and how this project might inspire your own.

Paul Schwarzenberger: Cloud security architect and engineer Talk title: How we saved $70k/year with our open-source serverless private CA Description: At Q-Solution, a specialist company providing managed services to UK government, we wished to secure a community of government organizations via the public Internet using certificate authentication. We developed and built our own solution due to the high cost of AWS Private CA: a serverless CA in AWS with high levels of security, costing under $5 per month per environment. The CA is available as an open-source project, suitable for a wide range of use cases. After a technical overview, you’ll see a hands-on live demonstration of the serverless CA being used to secure an application. ***

Sponsors ☁️ 💫 aleios We help startups disrupt and large organisations to remain competitive using the best of Cloud-Native, Serverless. Experts in delivery of highly scalable systems we connect people, liberate data and create innovation through technology.

🍷 Theodo Theodo are a team of 50+ agile web, mobile and software experts are based in Soho Square, London with offices in Paris and New York.

Over the last 10 years and across over 500 projects, we have partnered with non-technical founders to launch their first product, FTSE 100 companies to increase market share through launching internal startups & spearheading digital transformation initiatives, and SME CTOs to build and scale their technical teams.

Theodo projects start fast, and progress even faster, with our unique methodology combining agile, lean and DevOps allowing us to build more efficiently as the project progresses. We are experts at React Native, Serverless, React, Django/Python, Node.js and Symfony, with experience in many other frameworks.

Join us on May 14th for the next edition of Serverless London Meetup. The event will be in person!

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🎫 Tickets

No Eventbrite tickets for this event but there is a hard limit for RSPV :)

***

📍Location The event is hosted at the Spinks Office

The full address is: 3 Noble St, City of London, London EC2V 7EE

***

🕚 Rough timings • 6:30 pm - 7:00 pm: Doors open with refreshments • 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm: Talks and Q&A • 8:30 pm onwards: Pub!

*** 📣 Talks Inthuson Anandakumar: Sr. Solutions Architect AWS Talk title: Video Analysis & Content Moderation using Bedrock and Serverless Architecture

Precious Ossai: Senior Software Engineer \| Ex checkout.com Talk title: Understanding high-level basics of tools and patterns for system design/architecture as a non-backend/DevOps engineer ***

Sponsors ☁️ 💫 aleios We help startups disrupt and large organisations to remain competitive using the best of Cloud-Native, Serverless. Experts in delivery of highly scalable systems we connect people, liberate data and create innovation through technology.

🍷 Theodo Theodo are a team of 50+ agile web, mobile and software experts are based in Soho Square, London with offices in Paris and New York.

Over the last 10 years and across over 500 projects, we have partnered with non-technical founders to launch their first product, FTSE 100 companies to increase market share through launching internal startups & spearheading digital transformation initiatives, and SME CTOs to build and scale their technical teams.

Theodo projects start fast, and progress even faster, with our unique methodology combining agile, lean and DevOps allowing us to build more efficiently as the project progresses. We are experts at React Native, Serverless, React, Django/Python, Node.js and Symfony, with experience in many other frameworks.

***IMPORTANT: IF YOU RSVP here you don't need to also RSVP to London Kafka Group.***

Date and Time: 🗓️ Wednesday 7th May, ⏰ 18:00 - 21:00 PM 🕘

Venue: Snowflake, One Crown Place, London EC2A 4EF, U.K. 5th & 6th floors · London

Schedule:

• 6:00pm: Doors open
• 6:00pm – 6:30pm: Food/Drinks and networking
• 6:30pm - 7:00pm: Mastering real-time anomaly detection
• 7:00pm - 7:30pm: Iced Kaf-fee: Chilling Kafka Data into Iceberg Tables
• 7:30pm - 8:00pm: Observing all the things: Apache Kafka® and Apache Flink® with OpenTelemetry
• 8:30pm - 9:00pm: Additional Q&A and Networking

🎙️ \~Talk 1\~ Mastering real-time anomaly detection, Olena Kutsenko, Staff Developer Advocate, Confluent

Abstract: Detecting problems as they happen is essential in today's fast-moving world. This talk shows how to build a simple, powerful system for real-time anomaly detection in live data. We'll use Apache Kafka for streaming data, Apache Flink for processing it in real time, and various models to detect unusual patterns. Whether it's monitoring systems, or tracking IoT devices, this solution is flexible and reliable.

We'll start by exploring how Kafka helps collect and manage fast-moving data streams. Then, we'll demonstrate how Flink processes this data in real time and integrates anomaly detection models to uncover events as they occur. We'll dive into the details of how ARIMA and LSTM work, so even if you’re not into mathematics, you can still understand what happens behind the scenes!

This talk is ideal for anyone looking to monitor anomalies in real-time data streams.

🗣️ Speaker 1: Olena is a Staff Developer Advocate at Confluent and a recognized expert in data streaming and analytics. With two decades of experience in software engineering, she has built mission-critical applications, led high-performing teams, and driven large-scale technology adoption at industry leaders like Nokia, HERE Technologies, AWS, and Aiven.

🎙️ \~Talk 2\~ Iced Kaf-fee: Chilling Kafka Data into Iceberg Tables, Danica Fine, Lead Developer Advocate, Open Source at Snowflake

Abstract: Have piping-hot, real-time data in Apache Kafka® but want to chill it down into Apache Iceberg™ tables? Let’s see how we can craft the perfect cup of “Iced Kaf-fee” for you and your needs!

We’ll start by grinding through the motivation for moving data from Kafka topics into Iceberg tables, exploring the benefits that doing so has to offer your analytics workflows. From there, we’ll open up the menu of options available to cool down your streams, including Apache Flink®, Apache Spark™, and Kafka Connect. Each brewing method has its own recipe, so we’ll compare their pros and cons, walk through use cases for each, and highlight when you might prefer a strong Spark roast over a smooth Flink blend—or maybe a Connect cold brew. Plus, we’ll share a sneak peek at future innovations that are percolating in the community to make sinking your Kafka data into Iceberg even easier.

By the end of the session, you’ll have everything you need to whip up the perfect pipeline and serve up your “Iced Kaf-fee” with confidence.

🗣️ Speaker 2: Danica began her career as a software engineer in financial services and pivoted to developer relations, where she focussed primarily on open source technologies under the Apache Software Foundation umbrella such as Apache Kafka and Apache Flink. She now leads the open source advocacy efforts at Snowflake, supporting Apache Iceberg and Apache Polaris (incubating).

🎙️ \~Talk 3\~ Observing all the things: Apache Kafka® and Apache Flink® with OpenTelemetry, Mehreen Tahir Software Engineer, New Relic

🗣️ Speaker 3: Mehreen specializes in machine learning, data science, and artificial intelligence. Mehreen is passionate about observability and the use of telemetry data to improve application performance. She actively contributes to developer communities and has a keen interest in edge analytics and serverless architecture.

*** DISCLAIMER NOTE: We are unable to cater for any attendees under the age of 18. If you would like to speak or host our next event please let us know! [email protected]

Join us for an a range of talks including Kafka to Apache Iceberg in London hosted by Snowflake!

Date and Time: 🗓️ Wednesday 7th May, ⏰ 18:00 - 21:00 PM 🕘 Venue: Snowflake, One Crown Place, London EC2A 4EF, U.K. 5th & 6th floors · London

Schedule:

• 6:00pm: Doors open
• 6:00pm – 6:30pm: Food/Drinks and networking
• 6:30pm - 7:00pm: Mastering real-time anomaly detection
• 7:00pm - 7:30pm: Iced Kaf-fee: Chilling Kafka Data into Iceberg Tables
• 7:30pm - 8:00pm: Observing all the things: Apache Kafka® and Apache Flink® with OpenTelemetry
• 8:30pm - 9:00pm: Additional Q&A and Networking

🎙️ \~Talk 1\~ Mastering real-time anomaly detection, Olena Kutsenko, Staff Developer Advocate, Confluent

Abstract: Detecting problems as they happen is essential in today's fast-moving world. This talk shows how to build a simple, powerful system for real-time anomaly detection in live data. We'll use Apache Kafka for streaming data, Apache Flink for processing it in real time, and various models to detect unusual patterns. Whether it's monitoring systems, or tracking IoT devices, this solution is flexible and reliable. We'll start by exploring how Kafka helps collect and manage fast-moving data streams. Then, we'll demonstrate how Flink processes this data in real time and integrates anomaly detection models to uncover events as they occur. We'll dive into the details of how ARIMA and LSTM work, so even if you’re not into mathematics, you can still understand what happens behind the scenes!

This talk is ideal for anyone looking to monitor anomalies in real-time data streams.

🗣️ Speaker 1: Olena is a Staff Developer Advocate at Confluent and a recognized expert in data streaming and analytics. With two decades of experience in software engineering, she has built mission-critical applications, led high-performing teams, and driven large-scale technology adoption at industry leaders like Nokia, HERE Technologies, AWS, and Aiven.

🎙️ \~Talk 2\~ Iced Kaf-fee: Chilling Kafka Data into Iceberg Tables, Danica Fine, Lead Developer Advocate, Open Source at Snowflake

Abstract: Have piping-hot, real-time data in Apache Kafka® but want to chill it down into Apache Iceberg™ tables? Let’s see how we can craft the perfect cup of “Iced Kaf-fee” for you and your needs!

We’ll start by grinding through the motivation for moving data from Kafka topics into Iceberg tables, exploring the benefits that doing so has to offer your analytics workflows. From there, we’ll open up the menu of options available to cool down your streams, including Apache Flink®, Apache Spark™, and Kafka Connect. Each brewing method has its own recipe, so we’ll compare their pros and cons, walk through use cases for each, and highlight when you might prefer a strong Spark roast over a smooth Flink blend—or maybe a Connect cold brew. Plus, we’ll share a sneak peek at future innovations that are percolating in the community to make sinking your Kafka data into Iceberg even easier.

By the end of the session, you’ll have everything you need to whip up the perfect pipeline and serve up your “Iced Kaf-fee” with confidence.

🗣️ Speaker 2: Danica began her career as a software engineer in financial services and pivoted to developer relations, where she focussed primarily on open source technologies under the Apache Software Foundation umbrella such as Apache Kafka and Apache Flink. She now leads the open source advocacy efforts at Snowflake, supporting Apache Iceberg and Apache Polaris (incubating).

🎙️ \~Talk 3\~ Observing all the things: Apache Kafka® and Apache Flink® with OpenTelemetry, Mehreen Tahir Software Engineer, New Relic

🗣️ Speaker 3: Mehreen specializes in machine learning, data science, and artificial intelligence. Mehreen is passionate about observability and the use of telemetry data to improve application performance. She actively contributes to developer communities and has a keen interest in edge analytics and serverless architecture.

Complete your event RSVP here: https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-cloud-london-presents-tech-debt-in-startups-amp-multi-cloud-solutions/.

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GDG Cloud London is thrilled to be partnering with Skyscanner for a deep dive into the world of Tech debt management, AI and Google Cloud.

The event will be held at Skyscanner London office, at Level 5, Ilona Rose House, Manette St, London W1D 4AL.

This meet-up is a unique opportunity to connect with fellow Cloud and AI enthusiasts, industry practitioners, and researchers in a dynamic and interactive setting. Whether you are a seasoned Cloud and AI professional or just curious about how to tackle tech debt in startups, AI and Google Cloud, this meet-up is for you! Join us for an insightful and thought-provoking discussion on the forefront of Cloud innovation and practices.

We are going to have some pizza and networking at the end!

Don't miss out, RSVP now!

Agenda

6:00 PM: Arrivals and Check In

6:30 PM: Welcome / Community Update

6:45 PM: Natalie Godec - But can you really run your app on 2 clouds at the same time?

We've all heard about this concept - you should run your app in more than one zone, more than one region, more than one... cloud? But how can this be done, without a major re-architecture of every component of every system? Let me take you through a real world implementation, where the 2 clouds were AWS and GCP, and the app - a major platform that has to deal with images. We'll look into the infra, networking and DNS setup, how to configure data availability and consistency, and what happened when we actually switched dual run in production. Whether you need multi-cloud for resilience, for serving customers with different requirements, or you just want to see who's mad enough to implement this - this talk is for you.

7:15 PM: Alessandro De Maria - Code & Reload: A Call of Duty "Zombie mode" inspired approach to Technical Debt in Startups

In this talk, we'll explore the parallels between surviving Call of Duty's Zombie mode and managing technical debt in startups. Just as players face increasingly difficult zombie waves with brief moments to regroup, startups experience intense development sprints that accumulate technical debt, followed by critical recovery periods. Learn practical strategies for recognizing when to sprint and when to strengthen your codebase foundations, how to prioritize technical debt paydown during "breather" phases, and why ignoring these cycles leads to inevitable project death. Whether you're a developer, tech lead, or founder, you'll walk away with actionable frameworks to survive your startup's technical zombie apocalypse

8:00 PM: Pizza & Networking

Speakers

Natalie Godec - Zencore (GDE in Cloud Platform, Senior Cloud Architect)

Google Developer Expert in Cloud Platform

Alessandro De Maria - Cusp.AI (VP Platform Engineering)

Partner

Skyscanner (https://skyscanner.net/)

Complete your event RSVP here: https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-cloud-london-presents-tech-debt-in-startups-amp-multi-cloud-solutions/.

Join us on April 16th for the next edition of Serverless London Meetup. The event will be in person!

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🎫 Tickets

No Eventbrite tickets for this event but there is a hard limit for RSPV :)

***

📍Location The event is hosted at the Spinks Office

The full address is: 3 Noble St, City of London, London EC2V 7EE

***

🕚 Rough timings • 6:30 pm - 7:00 pm: Doors open with refreshments • 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm: Talks and Q&A • 8:30 pm onwards: Pub!

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📣 Talks

Fernando Gamero: Sr. Solutions Architect AWS Talk title: Building Domain-Driven Architectures Description: Learn how to build scalable domain-driven architectures using serverless patterns. This session shows how Amazon EventBridge and AWS Step Functions work together to implement effective domain boundaries and event-driven communication. Discover patterns for both choreography and orchestration approaches that help you create loosely coupled, maintainable systems using serverless infrastructure.

Ben Ellerby: AWS Serverless Hero & Founder of Aleios Talk title: Coming soon

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Sponsors ☁️ 💫 aleios We help startups disrupt and large organisations to remain competitive using the best of Cloud-Native, Serverless. Experts in delivery of highly scalable systems we connect people, liberate data and create innovation through technology.

🍷 Theodo Theodo are a team of 50+ agile web, mobile and software experts are based in Soho Square, London with offices in Paris and New York.

Over the last 10 years and across over 500 projects, we have partnered with non-technical founders to launch their first product, FTSE 100 companies to increase market share through launching internal startups & spearheading digital transformation initiatives, and SME CTOs to build and scale their technical teams. Theodo projects start fast, and progress even faster, with our unique methodology combining agile, lean and DevOps allowing us to build more efficiently as the project progresses. We are experts at React Native, Serverless, React, Django/Python, Node.js and Symfony, with experience in many other frameworks.

Join us for an Apache Kafka® x Kong meetup on Thursday, March 27th from 6:00pm in London hosted by TurinTech AI!

📍Venue: TurinTech AI 1 Finsbury Ave, City of London, London EC2M 2PF · London

IMPORTANT: If you RSVP on the this page, you don't need to RSVP on Kong London meetup page.

🗓 Agenda:

• 6:00pm: Doors open
• 6:00pm – 6:30pm: Food/Drinks and networking
• 6:30pm - 7:00pm: TurinTech AI / Welcome
• 7:00pm - 7:45pm: Johannes Brännström, Staff Solutions Engineer, Kong
• 7:45pm - 8:30pm: Harry Kimpel, Principal Developer Relations Engineer, New Relic
• 8:30pm - 9:00pm: Additional Q&A and Networking

💡 Speaker One: Johannes Brännström, Staff Solutions Engineer, Kong

Title of Talk: Extending the worlds most used API platform to Kafka -- Why it matters, what's here today, what's coming and how to learn more.

Abstract: In this talk, we’ll explore how Kong facilitates the way Kafka users interact with both synchronous and asynchronous APIs. Through the lens of example companies, we'll showcase how Kong helps manage and optimize their API ecosystems, balancing the needs for real-time event streaming with traditional API patterns. Attendees will gain an understanding of Kong’s current capabilities for Kafka integration, highlighting key features that enable smooth API management, enhanced scalability, and reliability. We'll also offer ways for you to get first-hand experience. Looking ahead, we’ll share exciting developments on the horizon, including upcoming features, enhancements that will further empower Kafka users as well as learn more.

Bio: Joining Kong from MongoDB & Red Hat Johannes is passionate about agile, modern application architecture and continuous delivery in all areas required to build great software.

💡 Speaker Two: Harry Kimpel, Principal Developer Relations Engineer, New Relic

Title of Talk: Unlock full end-to-end tracing through Kong and Kafka with OpenTelemetry

Abstract: Ideally, you should be using distributed tracing to trace requests through your system, but Kafka decouples producers and consumers, which means there are no direct transactions to trace between them. Kafka also uses asynchronous processes, which have implicit, not explicit, dependencies. Another key component of such an architecture is securing and exposing endpoints with a powerful platform such as Kong. All of this makes it challenging to understand how your microservices are working together.

However, it is possible to observe your Kong Gateway interactions and Kafka-based applications with distributed tracing and OpenTelemetry. You can then analyze and visualize your traces in an open source distributed tracing tool like Jaeger or a full observability platform like New Relic. In this talk I will leverage a simple application to show how you can achieve this.

Bio: Passionate software craftsman with 25+ years experience in a broad spectrum of development technologies and platforms. Mostly focusing on .NET/C#, the Microsoft development stack and cloud-native software architectures. Key focus also on Microsoft Azure as well as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Observability, monitoring and securing these environments are key aspects. Currently extremely interested in the Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr).

*** DISCLAIMER NOTE: We are unable to cater for any attendees under the age of 18. If you would like to speak or host our next event please let us know! [email protected]

Join us for an Apache Kafka® x Kong meetup on Thursday, March 27th from 6:00pm in London hosted by TurinTech AI!

Venue: TurinTech AI, 1 Finsbury Ave, City of London, London EC2M 2PF · London

Agenda:

• 6:00pm: Doors open
• 6:00pm – 6:30pm: Food/Drinks and networking
• 6:30pm - 7:00pm: TurinTech AI / Welcome
• 7:00pm - 7:45pm: Johannes Brännström, Staff Solutions Engineer, Kong
• 7:45pm - 8:30pm: Harry Kimpel, Principal Developer Relations Engineer, New Relic
• 8:30pm - 9:00pm: Additional Q&A and Networking

Title of Talk 1: Extending the worlds most used API platform to Kafka -- Why it matters, what's here today, what's coming and how to learn more.

Abstract: In this talk, we’ll explore how Kong facilitates the way Kafka users interact with both synchronous and asynchronous APIs. Through the lens of example companies, we'll showcase how Kong helps manage and optimize their API ecosystems, balancing the needs for real-time event streaming with traditional API patterns. Attendees will gain an understanding of Kong’s current capabilities for Kafka integration, highlighting key features that enable smooth API management, enhanced scalability, and reliability. We'll also offer ways for you to get first-hand experience. Looking ahead, we’ll share exciting developments on the horizon, including upcoming features, enhancements that will further empower Kafka users as well as learn more.

Speaker One: Bio: Johannes Brännström, Staff Solutions Engineer, Kong. Joining Kong from MongoDB & Red Hat Johannes is passionate about agile, modern application architecture and continuous delivery in all areas required to build great software

Title of Talk 2: Unlock full end-to-end tracing through Kong and Kafka with OpenTelemetry

Abstract: Ideally, you should be using distributed tracing to trace requests through your system, but Kafka decouples producers and consumers, which means there are no direct transactions to trace between them. Kafka also uses asynchronous processes, which have implicit, not explicit, dependencies. Another key component of such an architecture is securing and exposing endpoints with a powerful platform such as Kong. All of this makes it challenging to understand how your microservices are working together. However, it is possible to observe your Kong Gateway interactions and Kafka-based applications with distributed tracing and OpenTelemetry. You can then analyze and visualize your traces in an open source distributed tracing tool like Jaeger or a full observability platform like New Relic. In this talk I will leverage a simple application to show how you can achieve this.

Speaker Two Bio: Harry Kimpel, Principal Developer Relations Engineer, New Relic.

Passionate software craftsman with 25+ years experience in a broad spectrum of development technologies and platforms. Mostly focusing on .NET/C#, the Microsoft development stack and cloud-native software architectures. Key focus also on Microsoft Azure as well as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Observability, monitoring and securing these environments are key aspects. Currently extremely interested in the Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr).

Join us on March 12th for the next edition of Serverless London Meetup. The event will be in person!

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🎫 Tickets

No Eventbrite tickets for this event but there is a hard limit for RSPV :)

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📍Location The event is hosted at the Spinks Office

The full address is: 3 Noble St, City of London, London EC2V 7EE

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🕚 Rough timings • 6:30 pm - 7:00 pm: Doors open with refreshments • 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm: Talks and Q&A • 8:30 pm onwards: Pub!

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📣 Talks

Sheen Brisals: AWS Serverless Hero and O'Reilly Author

Talk title: Embracing Complexity in Serverless! Description: This talk will begin by surveying the complex-looking distributed system landscape. I will then equip you with a better understanding of the serverless ecosystem and explain how to tap its potential to build applications correctly. When you understand a system and its processes better, it becomes easier to manage. When you know how to manage complexity, you will embrace it to grow your business beyond barriers!

Ryan Cormack: Motorway Talk title: Schema Revolution: Building Serverless Microservices

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Sponsors ☁️ 💫 aleios We help startups disrupt and large organisations to remain competitive using the best of Cloud-Native, Serverless. Experts in delivery of highly scalable systems we connect people, liberate data and create innovation through technology.

🍷 Theodo Theodo are a team of 50+ agile web, mobile and software experts are based in Soho Square, London with offices in Paris and New York.

Over the last 10 years and across over 500 projects, we have partnered with non-technical founders to launch their first product, FTSE 100 companies to increase market share through launching internal startups & spearheading digital transformation initiatives, and SME CTOs to build and scale their technical teams. Theodo projects start fast, and progress even faster, with our unique methodology combining agile, lean and DevOps allowing us to build more efficiently as the project progresses. We are experts at React Native, Serverless, React, Django/Python, Node.js and Symfony, with experience in many other frameworks.

Join us on February 12th for the next edition of Serverless London Meetup. The event will be in person, with talks being recorded.

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🎫 Tickets

No Eventbrite tickets for this event but there is a hard limit for RSPV :) Wait list will be operating on Meetup.

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📍Location The event is hosted at the AWS offices Holborn

The full address is: 60 Holborn Viaduct, London EC1A 2FD

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🕚 Rough timings • 6:30 pm - 7:00 pm: Doors open with refreshments • 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm: Talks and Q&A • 8:30 pm onwards: Pub!

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📣 Talks

Victoria Demina: Software Engineer \| AWS New Voices Graduate

Talk title: Serverless Threat Modelling: What, When & How Description: In this talk, we will explore what threat modelling is and how to apply the STRIDE model in Serverless. You will learn to identify and mitigate common threats, helping you build more secure serverless applications.

Yan Cui: Independent Consultant \| AWS Serverless Hero

Talk title: How we built an AI-powered code reviewer with serverless and Bedrock Description: How hard can it be to build an AI-powered code reviewer using modern LLMs? Easier than you think—until it isn’t.

I recently helped a client launch an AI-powered code reviewer. It was built upon an entirely serverless architecture and leverages Bedrock.

We built the initial prototype in the first few hours. But we soon encountered many unexpected challenges as we tried to productionize the idea into a coherent user experience.

In this session, let me tell you the surprises, challenges, and lessons learned from building an AI-powered code reviewer and what it tells us about the current state of LLM technologies. ***

Sponsors ☁️ 💫 aleios We help startups disrupt and large organisations to remain competitive using the best of Cloud-Native, Serverless. Experts in delivery of highly scalable systems we connect people, liberate data and create innovation through technology.

🍷 Theodo Theodo are a team of 50+ agile web, mobile and software experts are based in Soho Square, London with offices in Paris and New York.

Over the last 10 years and across over 500 projects, we have partnered with non-technical founders to launch their first product, FTSE 100 companies to increase market share through launching internal startups & spearheading digital transformation initiatives, and SME CTOs to build and scale their technical teams. Theodo projects start fast, and progress even faster, with our unique methodology combining agile, lean and DevOps allowing us to build more efficiently as the project progresses. We are experts at React Native, Serverless, React, Django/Python, Node.js and Symfony, with experience in many other frameworks.

Next generation developer tools that incorporate generative AI are everywhere, but how good are they, and. more importantly, how useful. In this talk I am going to share what I have learned from using these tools over the last 12 months. I will cover the kinds of day-to-day scenarios and use cases I am finding them useful for, how they are helping me address some of my developer problems, and tips I have learned to more effectively use these tools. This session contains live coding/demos that will help you see this in action.

DETAILS Dear Platform Engineering Community,

To get things kicked off, we are going to have our first in-person MeetUp here in London!

On September 18 starting at 6pm, in the cool setting of the Anthologist bar, you can listen to views on all things cloud and platform engineering.

We'll take care of the food, drinks and awesome talks. You just need to bring you ;-)

We are planning to make this a regular event. If you have talks, topics, and experiences to share - please let us know!

Event one is hosted by Tarmac.IO and Strong Network

LOCATION The Anthologist 58 Gresham St, London EC2V 7BB

what3words Address: ///civic.soda.fields

HOW TO GET THERE Tube: Bank (5 mins) Moorgate (6 mins) St Pauls (8 mins) Train: Liverpool Street (12 mins)

AGENDA 17:30 - 18.30: Doors Open, Welcome Drinks & Snacks/Appetizers 18.30 - 18-40: Official Welcome 18.40 - 18.35: Team-as-Code: Provision an entire development team and infrastructure online - Dr. Laurent Balmelli - Co-founder of Strong Network 18.35 - 19.00: AWS ECS Capacity Providers: Workarounds and Best Practices for Spot Instances - Nikos Kalenzis - DevOps Practice Lead @ Tarmac.io 19:00 - 22.00: Networking and Drinks

Join us at RVUs' STUNNING new Riverside Headquarters for the inaugural Data Engineer Things SUMMER BASH. An evening of networking, drinks, food and talks from some brilliant speakers from the Data Engineer community, including:

• Sid Dawara (Head of Data Engineering at RVU)- War stories and Data Architecture from the RVU Journey: from Chaos to Clarity.
• Ties Boukema (Data Lead at Dawn Capital) - How to build a data stack for venture capital

Event Schedule 6:30 - 7:00 : food, drinks, networking

7:00 - 7:20: Sid Dawara (Head of Data Engineering at RVU)- War stories and Data Architecture from the RVU Journey

7:20 - 7:40: Break

7:40 - 8:00 : Ties Boukema (Data Lead at Dawn Capital) How to build a data stack for venture capital

8:00-8:30: Q&A

8:30 onwards: Beverages

Join the guestlist 👉to secure your spot as spaces are limited.

This gathering of London’s Data Engineer Things community is organised by Hugo Lu (Orchestra) and sponsored by RVU

About us: Data Engineer Things (DET), founded by Xinran Waibel, is an online community and publication dedicated to curating learning resources for data engineers. The London chapter is focused on bringing together like-minded data engineers and practitioners to share experiences, and speak about high-quality real-world data engineer projects, and of course, socialise.

Talk submission:

If you'd like to submit a talk (or help us organise!) please reach out to Hugo or Tim Webster on Linkedin. Similar to the Data Engineer Things Medium blog, we recommend submitting talks on some of the topics below, which are educational and beneficial to the wider community!

Speaking about relevant professional experiences is also recommended: Project ideas: Interesting data engineering projects you've done (ideally in a professional capacity) ---> Tech stacks: Building a batch/streaming pipeline on AWS\, for example ---> Engineering process: Integrating CICD into data engineering dev cycle ---> Overlooked topics: e.g. how to design systems for high data quality Which could be interspersed with stories about: ---> Career switching: Transitioning into DE from another field ---> Interviews: Preparing for data engineering interviews

Resources: Slack: http://join.det.life Medium: https://blog.det.life Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@data-engineer-things/streams Website: https://www.dataengineerthings.org/aboutus/

Dear Kong Community,

Following AWS Immersion Day London: Seamless APIM with Kong Konnect and Amazon EKS on May 23, we would like to invite you to a Happy Hour in the The Crown and Shuttle!

If you would like to attend the AWS Immersion Day, please visit the event page and register there for it.

Details for the Community Happy Hour:

When May 23, 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Where The Crown and Shuttle, 226 Shoreditch High St, London E1 6PJ, United Kingdom

Description Please join us for a Kong Community Happy Hour, where we want to meet all of you, our awesome community members! We want to get to know you, learn from you, get feedback, and simply chat about all exciting things Kong! The first 2 drinks are on us.

Instead of a traditional Meetup, this time we would like to meet our awesome community in a more informal setting. Several Kong employees will be present to answer any questions you might have.

We can't wait to see you there! Kong Community Team

Join Snowflake London User Group & DET community in Holborn at MMC HQ for an evening of networking, drinks, food and talks from some brilliant speakers from the Data Engineer community, including:

Anna Aleshko (Data Engineer and Founder of Data Engineers London)- How we power insights using Snowflake for a £7bn business: Data Architecture and Data Products at Waitrose [SURPRISE] - The ultimate combination: how to run dbt-Core on Snowflake Container Services

Alex Spanos (Head of Data @Tarabut) - Automating Data Workflows for ML in Middle East Open Banking

🤝Sponsored by Snowflake, Orchestra and MMC Ventures

Event Schedule 6:30 - 7:00 : food, drinks, networking

7:00 - 7:20: Anna Aleshko, Data Engineer - How we power insights for a £7bn business: Data Architecture and Data Products at Waitrose

7:20 - 7:40: [SURPRISE] - The ultimate combination: how to run dbt-Core on Snowflake Container Services + Q&A

7:40 - 8:00 : Alex Spanos (Head of Data @Tarabut) - Automating Data Workflows for ML in Middle East Open Banking

8:00-8:30: Q&A

8:30 onwards: drinks and pub

Join the guestlist 👉to secure your spot as spaces are limited.

This gathering of London’s Data Engineer Things community is organised by Hugo Lu (Orchestra) and sponsored by Snowflake and MMC Ventures

About DET: Data Engineer Things (DET), founded by Xinran Waibel, is an online community and publication dedicated to curating learning resources for data engineers. The London chapter is focused on bringing together like-minded data engineers and practitioners to share experiences, and speak about high-quality real-world data engineer projects, and of course, socialise.

Talk submission: If you'd like to submit a talk (or help us organise!) please reach out to Hugo or Tim Webster on Linkedin. Similar to the Data Engineer Things Medium blog, we recommend submitting talks on some of the topics below, which are educational and beneficial to the wider community!

Speaking about relevant professional experiences is also recommended:

Project ideas: Interesting data engineering projects you've done (ideally in a professional capacity)

---> Tech stacks: Building a batch/streaming pipeline on AWS, for example

---> Engineering process: Integrating CICD into data engineering dev cycle

---> Overlooked topics: e.g. how to design systems for high data quality

Which could be interspersed with stories about:

---> Career switching: Transitioning into DE from another field

---> Interviews: Preparing for data engineering interviews

DET Resources: Slack: http://join.det.life

Medium: https://blog.det.life

Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@data-engineer-things/streams

Website: https://www.dataengineerthings.org/aboutus/

Agenda

6:30 PM: food, drinks, networking

7:00 PM: Anna Aleshko, Data Engineer - How we power insights for a £7bn business: Data Architecture and Data Products at Waitrose

7:20 PM: [SURPRISE] - The ultimate combination: how to run dbt-Core on Snowflake Container Services + Q&A

7:40 PM: Dario Morelli - Lessons from Truelayer - Building the Data & Analytics Team for the UK's largest Open Banking provider

8:00 PM: Q&A

8:30 PM: drinks and pub

Speakers

Anna Aleshko - Waitrose (Data Engineer)

https://www.linkedin.com/in/anna-aleshko;

Dario Morelli - Truelayer (previous) (Head of Data Analytics)

https://www.linkedin.com/in/morellidario/;

Surprise Speaker

https://docs.snowflake.com/en/developer-guide/snowpark-container-services/overview;

Partner

Data Engineering Things (https://blog.det.life/)

Snowflake User Groups

Complete your event RSVP here: https://usergroups.snowflake.com/events/details/snowflake-london-presents-london-snowflake-user-group-x-data-engineering-things-community-meetup-at-mmc-hq-holborn/.

Join us in Holborn at MMC HQ for an evening of networking, drinks, food and talks from some brilliant speakers from the Data Engineer community, including:

• Anna Aleshko (Data Engineer and Founder of Data Engineers London)- How we power insights using Snowflake for a £7bn business: Data Architecture and Data Products at Waitrose
• [SURPRISE] - The ultimate combination: how to run dbt-Core on Snowflake Container Services
• Alex Spanos (Head of Data @Tarabut) - Automating Data Workflows for ML in Middle East Open Banking

Event Schedule 6:30 - 7:00 : food, drinks, networking

7:00 - 7:20: Anna Aleshko, Data Engineer - How we power insights for a £7bn business: Data Architecture and Data Products at Waitrose

7:20 - 7:40: [SURPRISE] - The ultimate combination: how to run dbt-Core on Snowflake Container Services + Q&A

7:40 - 8:00 : Alex Spanos (Head of Data @Tarabut) - Automating Data Workflows for ML in Middle East Open Banking

8:00-8:30: Q&A

8:30 onwards: drinks and pub

Join the guestlist 👉to secure your spot as spaces are limited.

This gathering of London’s Data Engineer Things community is organised by Hugo Lu (Orchestra) and sponsored by Snowflake and MMC Ventures

About us: Data Engineer Things (DET), founded by Xinran Waibel, is an online community and publication dedicated to curating learning resources for data engineers. The London chapter is focused on bringing together like-minded data engineers and practitioners to share experiences, and speak about high-quality real-world data engineer projects, and of course, socialise.

Talk submission:

If you'd like to submit a talk (or help us organise!) please reach out to Hugo or Tim Webster on Linkedin. Similar to the Data Engineer Things Medium blog, we recommend submitting talks on some of the topics below, which are educational and beneficial to the wider community!

Speaking about relevant professional experiences is also recommended: Project ideas: Interesting data engineering projects you've done (ideally in a professional capacity) ---> Tech stacks: Building a batch/streaming pipeline on AWS\, for example ---> Engineering process: Integrating CICD into data engineering dev cycle ---> Overlooked topics: e.g. how to design systems for high data quality Which could be interspersed with stories about: ---> Career switching: Transitioning into DE from another field ---> Interviews: Preparing for data engineering interviews

Resources: Slack: http://join.det.life Medium: https://blog.det.life Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@data-engineer-things/streams Website: https://www.dataengineerthings.org/aboutus/