The agenda for meetup #3. Much love to razorfish and GigaSpaces for sponsorship, and GigaSpaces, AWS, and CentraStage for supporting us with speakers and content.

1. @AWSUserGroupUK

3. Thank you to our sponsors…
Razorfish, Venue
GigaSpaces, Refreshments
…and our speakers
Ron Zanver, GigaSpaces
Ian Meyers, AWS
Ian van Reenen, CentraStage

4. 16:30
Managing your apps on AWS: Real life lessons with GigaSpaces
Ron Zanver
We’ve all learned Murphy’s inevitable law the hard way – if it can go wrong, it
often will! But that doesn’t mean we can’t be ready for such scenarios in the
cloud. In this talk, GigaSpaces will focus on the AWS environment, which is
dynamic and volatile by nature, and how to maximise your utilisation and
minimise downtime. This session will show you how you can architect your
cloud-hosted systems to sustain such outages, delving into how to choose the
right PaaS for the job, addressing data centre failures, how to avoid single
points of failure, and more.

5. 17:20
Quarterbacking the AWS Estate
Ian Meyers, AWS Solutions Architect
In this session we'll review real world ways to ensure your AWS estate is secure
and that you can keep good controls over what happens, when, and how much
it costs. Covered in this session will be Account Management best practices,
how to enable and configure programmatic billing, as well as setup for cost
allocation tagging and billing alerts. Ian will also give a quick update on new
AWS Services of Data Pipeline, Redshift and new High Capacity instances.

6. 18:10
The CentraStage experience
Ian van Reenen, CTO CentraStage
With 200,000 distributed agents with persistent SSL connections, keeping them
all alive in the cloud can be a challenge. In this talk Ian will share the learnings
of CentraStage regarding ELB vs HAProxy, and give insight into their strategies
to cater for connection avalanches after outages.