Luca Mezzalira

Speakers wanted! As those of you who've been paying attention will know, I'm one of the organisers of the AWS User Group UK Meetup (known quite reasonably amongst those outside of London as "The AWS London User Group") Often, our speakers cover 400 level topics that aren't entirely accessible to the people who've come along as beginners. Later this year, I'd like to run some content aimed at people who are just getting started, answering questions like: what is this thing? how should I learn more about it? who's hiring? is it worth getting certified? how do I get a job doing cloud things? If you have a 20 to 30 minute talk answering these sorts of questions, get yourself to the call for papers: https://lnkd.in/eXWmaju3

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We're back with another edition of the Observability Engineering London meetup 🤩. This time, we'll discuss how to get the most out of AWS OpenSearch for observability. Join us on Tuesday, June 4th, when Eugene Tolbakov will delve into the process undertaken by the Observability team at Chase UK to manage AWS OpenSearch clusters effectively. Utilizing Infrastructure as Code(Terraform), they have streamlined cluster management for efficiency and ease. He'll elaborate on their approach for defining index templates and patterns, configuring roles, and leveraging ingestion pipelines to streamline cluster management. Furthermore, Eugene will outline the enhancements they've implemented to ensure a stable platform and enhance the overall Observability experience and share key insights and learnings from their journey toward operational excellence with AWS OpenSearch management. 👾 Gameplan: 6:15 Welcome 6:30 Eugene Tolbakov | Delicacies of Observability: AWS OpenSearch Cluster from 'rare' to 'well-done 7:00 Q&A 7:20 Networking, Food & Drinks 8:15 Wrap up and head to the pub downstairs to keep the conversation going. #observability #aws #sre #devops #engineering

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A lot of speculation as to whether AWS (or Amazon at least) should buy Anthropic. Personally I think doubling down at what they do best, pick some open models, productise the management and scaling and make them available to existing customers to use Secure, managed, supported llms and diffusion models. Managed llama, phi, Gemma and our own Falcon would be great for businesses in the region with data privacy and regulatory concerns. Are they already doing this? Let me know, I’ve been using groq but will need local hosting and data privacy. I know I can host it myself or use lamda but are the managed services also available?

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Why choose Fluid? Deploy K8s anywhere! 🤯 It’s no secret: Kubernetes is incredibly complex to set up and run, yet it’s the cornerstone for cloud-like workload flexibility and container orchestration. Deploy fully-configured and self-healing Kubernetes clusters in minutes with Fluid so you can deploy applications without the infrastructure overhead. Want to learn more? Visit us and read all about Fluid here: https://fluidhq.io/ #fluid #fluidcloud #deployk8s #itsolutions #cloudsolutions #hybridcloud

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On Tuesday 23rd April, I'll be conducting a panel discussion about AI in Engineering Productivity. Together with ✅ Erika Rice Scherpelz - Head of Engineer, Sourcegraph ✅ Phil Richards - CTO, The Contract Network ✅ Alok Ranjan - Software Engineering Manager, Dropbox We will be discussing how AI tools transform engineers' productivity, what challenges come down the line, and how to overcome them effectively. We will also ask ourselves about the short and long-term future of AI's impact on software development. Check the link in the comments for more details or just reach out to me if you're interested!

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We had an engaging session with GE on AI’s future and LLM frameworks.  Key point: data quality and proprietary data access become the competitive advantages. #AI #LLM

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How about some Technical Reading for a Monday afternoon? Our CTO James Ridgway recently wrote an interesting piece around AWS Lambda and a common problem known as "a cold start" - the initial delay experienced when invoking a serverless function for the first time. Learn more about the Cold Start problem and how you can avoid it impacting your cloud system and serverless functions in the blog here - https://lnkd.in/ekVeucNZ #AWS #TechnicalGuides #Cloud

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Pulled together my takeaways after Amazon Web Services (AWS) Summit London last week. Thanks again Liberty IT for sending me over, great to hear what other companies are doing so we can improve ourselves! https://lnkd.in/eZ9ZudCj #aws #awscommunity #awscommunitybuilders

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If you're attending the AWS Summit tomorrow in London, drop by the ControlMonkey booth and learn how to shift legacy infrastructure to Terraform in 1 click with our Terraform Import Engine. ControlMonkey's Terraform Automation Platform helps DevOps teams navigate through the Day 2 challenges in the cloud by harnessing Terraform to its full potential. I hope everyone has a great event! #devops #aws #terraform

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Unlock the Power of Data Streaming at Current 2024: Join us as we delve into the heart of innovation with real-time apps, event-driven architectures, and always-on AI learning. Discover how Apache Kafka® and Apache Flink® are revolutionizing industries and propelling organizations to new heights. Don't miss out—secure your spot at the forefront of data streaming evolution. Only at Current.

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TL;dr - RIP Terraform. Time to say goodbye. I just ran into this obituary for Terraform and Hashicorp. The most probable future seems to be the maximization of sales motion and the minimization of engineering investment - just adding another product to the price list and unleashing the sales force at it. The worst possible outcome would be if IBM decided to make Terraform part of their still-born cloud offering. Or maybe we’ll have Terraform for mainframe? #terraform #hashicorp #ibm #upgrade

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Need to delay specific messages in a FIFO SQS queue at Trustpilot? 🕒 We found a clever workaround using AWS EventBridge Scheduler for rare use-cases where standard delays aren't enough and message timers aren’t supported. https://lnkd.in/evcg5C8W For more DevOps tips, check out DevOps Bulletin: https://lnkd.in/etMHrzud

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OpenShift and Kubernetes are today's most widely used container orchestration software options. How do they compare? Watch this video for an in-depth look at their similarities, differences and which is right for your projects. Red Hat

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Another month, another exciting edition of the Observability Engineering Community meetup! This time, we're talking about AWS OpenSearch implementation and optimization for Observability with Eugene Tolbakov from JPMorgan Chase & Co 💡 #observability #aws #sre #devOps

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Hear how easy it is to deploy #Hazelcast Platform with Fawaz Ghali, Hazelcast’s Director of Developer Experience. Whether you choose embedded or client-server mode, cloud or Kubernetes, flexible options are available. Watch now! #DevOps #Deployment

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It is more efficient to bring logic to the data than to ship data to the logic. This is especially true for "real time" RAG scenarios where OLTP data needs to be searched and processed in real time. Azure Postgres now has the ability to generate vector embeddings in real-time within the database. Check it out! #postgres #azure #ai #copilot #rag #llm #postgresql

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