jankowalski

Month: October 2014

  • Developing on AWS

    I’ve been in Luxembourg on AWS training for developers. It was free. The agenda

    Day 1: Getting Started

    • Working with the AWS code library, SDKs, and IDE toolkits
    • Introduction to AWS security features
    • Service object models and baseline concepts for working with Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon DynamoDB

    Day 2: Working with AWS Services

    • Service object models and baseline concepts for working with the Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) and the Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)
    • Applying AWS security features

    Day 3: Application Development and Deployment Best Practices

    • Application deployment using AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    • Best practices for working with AWS services

    Maybe worth taking away was this security feature of giving and EC2 instance a ROLE, what would keep your source code clean of any secret credentials. (I still don’t know how to inject credentials into app without keeping them in source repository – automatically add credentials to system envs howto?)

    Every module was ended with lab where we had to implement a solution for given AWS service. Everything was prepared very nicely.

    The main drawback of this training was luck of lunch. I don’t know if this is common practise on west but in mine part of Europe it’s not. It seems just rude to me. We are paying high bills for their services and they can’t afford lunch on trainings?

  • Polish Developer conferences

    This year – 2014 I had an opportunity to attend a few polish java related conference like: geecon.org, confitura.pl and warsjawa workshops.

    From geecon I remember amazing talk but guys from plumbr.eu (amazing tools btw. I will definitely give it a try after I end with newrelic) – there are many videos on vimeo from this one. Although confitura was professionally organised as always I really don’t remember anything?

    The best of all was the first day of warsjawa workshops. I’ve attended botsh Venkat Subramaniam’s workshop about concurrency (actors, stm – amazing book of Venkat) and groovy metaprograming. He is amazing. His voice is clear, he is being understood, he doesn’t mumble and he explains every detail. I could listen to his audiobooks recorded by himself.

    This year I’ve also been on atmosphere conference organised by my previous employer. As I like people working there this conference this year was unfortunately unsuccessful. (I won entrance ticket on geecon). The tickets in normal order were too expensive ( 250 euro ) and talks were less professional comparing to geecon’s (except the guy from prezi about theirs continuos delivery).