Welcome & Registration

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Opening & Event Essentials

Join us for the official opening of AWS Community Day Romania. We'll cover essential information about the event, including the schedule, location details, and guidelines to ensure a smooth and enjoyable experience for everyone. 

Keynote: Raul Geană & Dragoș Mădărășan

Raul and Dragoș will explore the latest industry directions and principles related to the cloud.

Sebastian Raba: Building a Serverless, GDPR-Compliant Clickstream Analytics Pipeline

In an era where data-driven insights are pivotal for understanding user behavior, ensuring user privacy and GDPR compliance is more important than ever. Join Sebastian as he presents a practical guide to building a serverless, GDPR-compliant clickstream analytics pipeline using AWS services. This session will explore how to leverage AWS tools like Kinesis Firehose, S3, Glue, Athena, and Lambda to design, implement, and optimize a robust analytics pipeline. 

Attendees will gain step-by-step insights on maintaining user privacy while extracting valuable data from user interactions.

László Bodor: Experimenting with Amazon Aurora DSQL: Architecture, Use Cases and Migrations

Explore the capabilities of Amazon Aurora DSQL, a new serverless, distributed SQL database currently in preview. In this session, László will focus on the architecture of DSQL, sharing insights and lessons learned from testing and deploying real-world applications in a multi-region active-active configuration. Attendees will learn about setting up Aurora DSQL, executing queries, and evaluating performance while identifying bottlenecks and migration challenges. 

This session aims to provide a clear understanding of how Aurora DSQL performs in different scenarios and the considerations needed for its adoption.

Coffee Break

Take a coffee break and relax!

Yan Cui: Money-saving tips for the frugal serverless developer

Join Yan in this insightful session as he dives into the world of serverless architectures and explore common cost mistakes and learn actionable tips for cutting down wastes and reducing your AWS bill. 

Whether you're looking to cut down on CloudWatch costs or improve cost-efficiency for your serverless application, he's got some helpful tips, just for you.

Luc van Donkersgoed: It’s turtles all the way down – a journey into abstraction and modularity

Modularity might be the single most important concept in software design. But it goes way beyond software: modularity is a key concept in business, organizations, and even people. In this talk Luc will first travel down many levels of modularity – from enterprises all the way to software methods – and discuss what makes a good module. Then he will cover software architecture in detail and see how onion architecture and ports-and-adapters can help you write flexible and maintainable software at any scale.

Coffee Break

Take a coffee break and relax!

Aaron Walker: Networkless Revolution - Embracing AWS VPC Lattice for Modern Deployment

Join Aaron for an in-depth exploration of Amazon VPC Lattice, a comprehensive application networking service that simplifies network connectivity, traffic routing, and security management across multiple VPCs and AWS accounts. This session will compare Amazon VPC Lattice with traditional service mesh tools, highlighting its role in transitioning applications from monolithic to microservices architectures.

Discover its powerful features, including a robust service directory, dynamic service network, and advanced traffic management, along with seamless integration with AWS services like IAM. Through practical demonstrations, gain insights into enhancing the efficiency and resilience of your distributed applications.

Additionally, explore practical use-cases for IPv6 migration and learn how Amazon VPC Lattice can aid in optimizing these transitions.

Toni de la Fuente & Eduard Agavriloae: Attacking and Defending AWS Environments - Live Demo

Join us in a live demo where Toni and Eduard will execute 5 relevant cloud attacks, each one followed by its remediation and detection.

Eduard, will mimic a real threat actor, while Toni will highlight how the blue team can handle the attack.
Together they will give the full perspective over how attacks are performed and handled in AWS. 

Coffee Break

Take a coffee break and relax!

Linda Mohamed & Philipp Bergsmann: From MacBook to Bedrock - Lessons from Building an AI Assistant

Linda and Philipp share their journey of building OTTO, an AI-powered Slackbot, at AWS User Group Vienna. While training an AI assistant might seem straightforward, they encountered unexpected challenges as their model began ignoring significant portions of the data. Using InstructLab and deploying on Amazon Bedrock, they faced real-world bottlenecks such as slow training on MacBooks, inconsistent data retrieval and complex debugging.

This talk goes beyond the ideal AI stack to reveal the messy realities of model tuning, infrastructure decisions and the surprising lessons learned along the way. 

Whether you're developing AI-powered assistants or simply curious about the challenges of AI projects, this session offers insights into achieving cost efficiency and overcoming obstacles in AI development.

Slobodan Stojanović: Prompt Engineering for Developers

Everyone talks about prompt engineering. Prompts seem like a magical way of communicating with LLMs. If you do not type a specific set of spells, LLM will hallucinate a rogue response.

But what are prompts, and how do they work? This talk will demystify the magic behind prompts and teach you how to use them in practice when building applications (both as a developer tool and as a part of the application you are building).

Closing KeyNote: Andra Someșan & Maria Encinar: The Power of Community - Elevate Your Career and Give Back

We'll explore how active participation in a tech community can elevate your career by providing networking opportunities, access to the latest industry knowledge and a platform for skill development. Learn how engaging with peers and mentors can open doors to new career paths and foster personal growth.

Moreover, we'll discuss the importance of giving back to your community. By sharing your knowledge and experiences, you not only contribute to the growth of others but also reinforce your own learning and leadership skills. Join us to understand the mutual benefits of community involvement and how it can propel both your career and the collective advancement of the tech industry.

Prizes, Prizes, Prizes

Surprise prizes :)