Move faster and safer using feature flags on AWS

AWS Immersion Day

Saturday

,

October

28

2023

7:00PM

-

10:00PM

PKT

About the event

Learn to implement practical DevOps techniques based on how Amazon and AWS enhances the speed, availability and security of its software through the use of feature flags. This webinar will cover various topics such as release flags, trunk-based development, and the A/B Testing methods employed by Amazon.com and AWS services.

Feature flagging is a powerful practice that allows you to decouple a software deployment from a release. By decoupling these events, you are able to reduce the risk of changes of software on production. Features and capabilities can be turned on and off, without deploying any code or restarting your application. You can also target specific flags to specific users, thus allowing you to run an A/B test on production to increase the confidence in your changes.

This technique typically results in an increase in deployment frequency, and reduction of time-to-resolution for emergent problems on production.
Teams in Amazon and AWS utilize feature flags at scale every hour, and have developed best practices in terms of the types of flags to use, and how they should be updated. Come learn these specific best practices that you can adopt on your teams.

Featured AWS Services:
AWS AppConfig
Amazon CloudWatch
AWS Lambda
Amazon EKS
Amazon ECS
AWS PrivateLink

Who should attend

DevOps Engineers, Site Reliability Engineers, Application Developers, and IT Operators interested in learning about AWS best practices, and how to improve increase release cadence as well as improve application availability. These practices work for any size company, from startup to large enterprise.

Agenda

9:00AM - 10:00AM

Breakfast

Breakfast. Registration will take place five minutes before breakfast.

10:00AM - 11:00AM

The Horizon of AI

The Emerging World of Artifical Intelligence and Machine Learning by Matthew Hartman and Partner, Betaworks.

11:00AM - 12:00PM

Startup Evangelist of the Month

Welcome Mackenzie Kosut, AWS Startup Evangelist

1:00PM - 2:00PM

Breakout Session 1

In this project, you will learn how to deploy and host Jenkins, an open-source automation software predominantly used for CI/CD

3:00PM - 4:00PM

Breakout Session 2

In this project, you will learn how to deploy and host WordPress, an open-source blogging tool and content management system

Speakers

Mackenzie Kosut

Global Startup Evangelist, Amazon Web Services

Mackenzie is the Global Startup Evangelist at AWS. His days are spent traveling the globe to meet startups, share their stories, and connect engineering teams together. Every day there are a large number of startups launching on AWS across every imaginable industry. It’s Mackenzie’s mission to find stories of startups that are helping to improve the world and share these stories with a wide audience.

Katherine Barna

Vice President Communications, Awesomeness

Katherine Barna is Vice President, Communications for Awesomeness, a leading multi-platform media company defining the future of entertainment. At Awesomeness, Barna oversees communication and PR strategy for the company and its four key divisions: the Gen Z-focused AwesomenessTV network, Awesomeness Films, DreamWorksTV, and Awestruck. In addition, she heads up the company’s social responsibility initiatives. Previously, she was Head of Communications and Public Policy for Tumblr. She joined the company in 2011 as the 25th employee overall and one of the first non-technical members of the team

Adam Rothenburg

Co-Founder & Partner, BoxGroup

Adam Rothenberg is a Co-founder and Partner of BoxGroup, a New York City based early stage venture capital fund. BoxGroup invests in pre-seed and seed rounds with the goal of backing talented entrepreneurs building disruptive technology companies and with visions to create the next generation of category defining businesses. Investments include Blue Apron, Trello, PillPack, Spring, Sunrise, Warby Parker, Harry’s, Oscar, Behance, and more. Adam was previously the Director of TechStars in New York City. TechStars is a mentorship-driven seed stage accelerator program. Prior to joining TechStars, Adam spent 4 years investing in the public markets at a hedge fund in New York City. Adam attended The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania where he concentrated in Finance and minored in Fine Arts. Adam is a native New Yorker.

Mackenzie Kosut

Global Startup Evangelist, Amazon Web Services

Mackenzie is the Global Startup Evangelist at AWS. His days are spent traveling the globe to meet startups, share their stories, and connect engineering teams together. Every day there are a large number of startups launching on AWS across every imaginable industry. It’s Mackenzie’s mission to find stories of startups that are helping to improve the world and share these stories with a wide audience.

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