AWS Community Day Turkey

Jeff Barr

The Unforgettable Next 10 Years

Talk Type: Keynote
Talk Language: English

Bio:Jeff Barr is Chief Evangelist for AWS. He started this blog in 2004 and has been writing posts just about non-stop ever since.

Ajay Nair

Move fast and don’t break - modern applications with serverless and event driven architectures

Talk Level: 300 - Professional
Talk Type: Session
Talk Language: English

100s of thousands of developers have experienced the agility benefits of adopting a serverless approach to application development. But did you know that going serverless is also a major boost to your application resiliency to modern infrastructure, service, and application failure modes? In this talk, join Ajay Nair, the GM of AWS Lambda and AWS App Runner as he dives into the resilience and availability benefits made possible by event-driven and serverless models across application types, all while being the fastest way of turning your idea into a modern, production application.

Bio:Ajay Nair is the General Manager for AWS Lambda and App Runner at Amazon Web Services. He is the founding product leader for AWS Lambda, and has been a key contributor in evolving the AWS serverless portfolio over the last several years. Ajay has spent his career focusing on cloud native platforms, developer productivity, and big data systems. He loves spending his days helping developers do more with less and delighting customers with the power of technology. Ajay holds a Masters in Information Systems Management from Carnegie Mellon, USA, with an Bachelors in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Kerala University, India. You can find Ajay sharing thoughts on everything from serverless to product management on Twitter (@ajaynairthinks), or on LinkedIn (linkedin.com/in/ajnair).

Andy 'Bob' Brockhurst

Optimizing EC2 Auto Scaling Groups in CloudFormation

Talk Level: 400 - Advanced
Talk Type: Session
Talk Language: English

A deep dive into some of the more complex parameters for tuning EC2 Auto Scaling Groups for cost and availability. Including CloudFormation tricks for parameterizing Spot Fleets and the ability to implement Step Scaling with disparate metrics.

Bio: Bob has "worked with computers" for more than 25 years, spending time at companies such as Yahoo! and The BBC. For the last 15 years spending most of his time deeply entrenched in AWS Cloud and managing IaaS/PaaS for LoveCrafts, a multinational on-line craft retailer.

Anton Babenko

Doing Serverless on AWS with Terraform for Real

Talk Level: 300 - Professional
Talk Type: Session
Talk Language: English

More and more companies are adopting serverless technologies as the community is defining the best practices, tools, and patterns. Companies using Terraform as their infrastructure as a code tool are often required to reinvent the wheel when they work with serverless. In the talk, I will explain why managing serverless applications with Terraform is a good idea and how https://serverless.tf open-source project has started as an organic response to the accidental complexity of many existing tools used by serverless developers.I will demo a complete serverless application (including building and deploying it) using Terraform and open-source components.

Bio: Anton is AWS Community Hero and helps companies around the globe build solutions using AWS and specializes in infrastructure-as-code, DevOps, and reusable infrastructure components.He spends much of his time as an open-source contributor on various Terraform & AWS projects. Such as Terraform AWS modules (downloaded more than 200 million times), Terraform best practices ebook (www.terraform-best-practices.com), doing serverless with Terraform (serverless.tf), Terraform Weekly (weekly.tf), Your Weekly Dose of Terraform (http://bit.ly/terraform-youtube). Anton co-founded and co-organizes AWS, DevOps, and HashiCorp User Groups in Norway and often speaks at technical meetups and conferences.

Bekir Akgul

Stay safe with AWS Network FW - Egress Traffic Filtering

Talk Level: 300 - Professional
Talk Type: Session
Talk Language: Turkish

"Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers a network firewall service called Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) that allows you to create a virtual network in the cloud and control the flow of inbound and outbound traffic to and from your resources. One feature of Amazon VPC is the ability to filter egress traffic, which refers to the outbound traffic from your resources to the Internet or other destinations outside of your virtual network.
Egress traffic filtering can be used to enhance the security of your virtual network by allowing you to specify which outbound traffic is allowed and which is denied. This can be useful in scenarios where you want to prevent certain types of traffic from leaving your network, such as traffic to malicious websites or traffic that violates your organization's security policies.
To implement egress traffic filtering in Amazon VPC, you can create a security group and specify the rules for allowed and denied traffic. You can then associate the security group with your resources, such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances or Amazon RDS databases. Any traffic that matches the rules in the security group will be allowed or denied based on the specified action.
Overall, egress traffic filtering is a useful tool for enhancing the security of your virtual network in AWS and controlling the flow of outbound traffic from your resources."

Bio:As a Cyber Security Researcher, with a strong technical background, my peers have described me as being business-minded with a ʻcan-doʼ attitude, derived from 15+ years of experience in Financial Services in International Companies as a Consultant

Berkay Mollamustafaoğlu

Why we chose AWS for Opsgenie, Thundra, and now Actioner

Talk Level: 100 - Introductory
Talk Type: Lightning
Talk Language: English

The OpsGenie journey started at the dawn of DevOps, and AWS has been the indispensable platform for our team to build and scale always-on systems. We were lucky to scale our service with ever-increasing demand till our exit to Atlassian with a $295M valuation. AWS has never stopped innovating and creating new spaces for us to innovate in serverless space with Thundra and with task automation with Actioner. In this talk, I will walk you through our evolution for over a decade in multiple companies.

Bio:Berkay is the co-founder and general partner of ScaleX Ventures. Berkay was the co-founder and CEO of OpsGenie, which is a modern incident management platform for operating always-on services, empowering DevOps teams to plan for service disruptions and stay in control during incidents. OpsGenie was acquired by Atlassian for $295M in 2018. (One of the top 10 M&A tech exits in Europe in 2018).

Burak Balta

From Concept to Reality: Low-Latency Live Streaming Trivia App with AWS Elemental Link and Amazon IVS

Talk Level: 400 - Advanced
Talk Type: Session
Talk Language: Turkish

We started with the idea of demonstrating how AWS can simplify complicated and challenging workloads with a subtle amount of effort. From scratch to production, this is a session on how we’ve built a low-latency live streaming trivia application using AWS Elemental Link and Amazon IVS.

Bio:An AWS Certified Developer Associate, Burak is an experienced software engineer. With his experience in various industries including global technology companies, he follows his passion for going beyond the limits to build excellent products with collaboration and knowledge sharing.

Can Değer

Openning Notes

Talk Type: Openning Talk
Talk Language: English

In this session, we will explore how you can leverage ChatGPT with your day to day development tasks. With the popularity and the improved abilities of large language models it is now possible to make use of them when you're architecting your database, writing database migrations, writing type definitions, annotating legacy code, and even writing complex algorithms! This talk will include a series of demos on how ChatGPT can be incorporated into your daily development workflow.

Bio:Around 20+ years of cyber security experience in large corporate environments. Excellent interpersonal and team building skills. Proven technical skills and experience across multiple industry verticals. Analytical and problem-solving skills along with the ability to communicate with all levels of the business from engineers to C-level executives. Also, vast online footprint in the EMEA area...
Experienced and highly skilled security engineer with the strongest background in cyber security. This is reinforced by in depth knowledge of many aspects of IT, security, and how they integrate with business. Proven ability to create cost effective and manageable security solutions that align with business processes and goals.
Being tech-savvy, currently combining cybersecurity know-how to Cloud technologies (AWS mainly), focusing on Zero-Trust IAM, Infrastructure Security, Threat Modelling, Incident Response, Well Architected Security and Cloud Adoption Security Practices. Coming from Penetration/Vulnerability testing with vendor specific Security products' installation and solution design background, have various vendor oriented or vendor agnostic certifications.

Diren Akkoç

Observability and SLIC Watch

Talk Level: 100 - Introductory
Talk Type: Lightning
Talk Language: English

Have you ever thought that your Lambda functions could fail without you even noticing? If the answer is YES, that’s probably because you already “got burned" by playing with the cloud, where errors and failures are always around the corner. Unfortunately, we can’t prevent all types of failures, but what we can do is try to spot them as soon as possible and react quickly. In order to do that, we need good observability for our serverless applications and therefore we need to become familiar with services like CloudWatch. If you have tried CloudWatch already, you probably know how powerful but also complex it can be. In this talk, I will approach the topic of observability for serverless applications on AWS. I will also present our open-source toolkit for observability 'SLIC Watch' which automates away most of the pain of setting up dashboards and alarms in CloudWatch, making it easier to achieve great levels of observability.

Bio:Providing advanced Cloud Infrastructure solutions to clients with fourTheorem!

Emre Erkunt

Achieving zero trust between Terraform, Github Actions, and AWS

Talk Level: 400 - Advanced
Talk Type: Session
Talk Language: English

For cases in which you need more intelligent Github Actions pipelines while having your infrastructure terraformed in a declarative way, you will need to achieve zero trust for auth/authz operations between Github Action and AWS when terraform runs. In this presentation, we will go through several options about how to achieve this in a simple, readable and well-structured way without the need for any authentication tokens/secrets/keys.

Technical leader, technology enthusiast with a wide range of multi-domain expertise including Software Development, DevOps, DevSecOps and Security in industry giants.

Engin Doğusoy

Multi Account Architectures & Tools at scale on AWS

Talk Level: 300 - Professional
Talk Type: Session
Talk Language: Turkish

This session focuses on key decision points in building multi-instance SaaS applications using multiple AWS accounts. It discusses centralized operational methods utilizing ECR, Managed Grafana, Managed Prometheus, IAM Identity Center, Inspector, Guard Duty, and Security Hub. It also proposes an account management method using GitHub and Terraform Cloud.

Bio:"Software engineer based in İstanbul, Turkey. I have a Computer Science and Engineering Bachelor’s Degree from Sabancı University and a Software Engineering Master’s Degree from Carnegie Mellon University. Started my career at SAP, Palo Alto as a prototyping engineer and later switched to mobile development as an Android Engineer at Fleksy, San Francisco. I realized that AWS makes things much more enjoyable for everyone in the company and decided to focus on it. Since then I spend most of my working hours on AWS services, Terraform and GitHub."

Ersel Aker

Incorporating ChatGPT to your Development Workflow

Talk Level: 200 - Intermediate
Talk Type: Session
Talk Language: English

Bio:Serial entrepreneur with a previous exit in eCom space. Ersel is a hands-on technical leader who is working with other entrepreneurs to bring their SaaS idea to life with FutureCast startup studio.

Farrah Campbell

Breaking Down the Business of Communities, And Why I Care

Talk Level: 100 - Introductory
Talk Type: Lightning
Talk Language: English

Communities are the backbone of any successful business. Whether it's an online community of customers, a group of employees who share a passion for their work, or a network of industry peers who collaborate to drive innovation, communities help organizations thrive. But what does it really mean to build and sustain a successful community? And why should businesses care? In this talk, we will explore the business of community from a variety of angles. We'll start by defining what a community is and why it matters. We'll then dive into the nitty-gritty of community management, discussing best practices for creating and fostering engagement, building trust, and facilitating meaningful connections. We'll discuss some of the challenges that can arise when building and managing communities, such as navigating tricky interpersonal dynamics, managing conflicts, and ensuring diversity and inclusion. Ultimately, this talk will provide a comprehensive overview of what it takes to build and sustain a thriving community in today's business landscape. Whether you're a business leader, community manager, or simply someone who cares about the power of human connection, you'll come away with a deeper understanding of why communities matter and how you can help build them.

Bio:Farrah is the Head of the Modern Compute Community at Amazon Web Services and previously worked at many different startups in different roles. She has a team-first mentality, and her passions are in technology & with connecting with and to people. Her superpower is being vulnerable, and in that she is able to personify the openness and welcoming attitude for the community, as a member of the community, and as a leader of the community. She is a championing for others and is thoughtful about she impacts the big picture and how to connect the dots to help make everyone better.

Gizem Mercan

The Journey of Serverless IoT at Vestel

Talk Level: 200 - Intermediate
Talk Type: Session
Talk Language: Turkish

Vestel Şirketler Grubu bilindiği üzere tüketici elektroniği, otomotiv, aydınlatma gibi birçok alanda faaliyet göstermektedir. 500’ün üzerinde farklı marka ürünün 158 ülkeye ihracatı yapılmaktadır. Üretilen ürünler arasında akıllı ev ekosistemine dahil olan son teknoloji connected ürünler bulunmaktadır. Gizem, Vestel'in IoT alanında yaptığı çalışmaları ve AWS’in serverless servisleriyle birleştirerek geliştirilen mimarinin aktarımını yapacaktır.

Bio:Gizem Mercan, who has been in the software industry for about 10 years, undergraduated in Computer Engineering of Dokuz Eylül University and her master's degree in Information Technologies of Ege University. Mercan, who worked as a software engineer for defense, telecom and manufacturing companies. Currently, she is a team leader of the cloud systems group, has been working at Vestel Electronics for 8 years. She has expertise on IoT application backend design, modernization of legacy services, optimizing cost of projects.

Goran Opacic

A quick look to AWS Lambda SnapStart

Talk Level: 400 - Advanced
Talk Type: Lightning
Talk Language: English

AWS Lambda service is very popular among startups as it enables fast development and easy scaling but there are challenges in bringing existing business applications to Serverless world. At re:Invent 2022 AWS released a new service called SnapStart in order to make first service response very fast. It is almost a perfect solution for business heavyweights like Java and soon other platforms like .net. During the session we will dive into technical details of Lambda and how AWS managed to speed up already blazing fast execution time of Lambda functions using technologies like FirecrackerVM, CRaC and similar.

Bio:Goran is the CEO and owner of Esteh and community leader of AWS User Group Belgrade. He is a Solutions Architect focused on Databases and Security with over 20 years of experience as developer, architect, and CEO of Internet solutions companies in South East Europe. His tech passions are MySQL, Java, and http. Goran runs madabout.cloud, a blog related to AWS, Java, and databases.His main expertise is migration projects. Specifically, databases to open source relational databases with MySQL based systems like Amazon Aurora. Goran focuses on how to combine serverless solutions like AWS Lambda with relational databases. He is also trying to ease migration of Java solutions to the cloud. In his recent blog post he demonstrated how to use Aurora Serverless and Data API in production.As an AWS community leader in Belgrade, he works on promoting All Things Cloud, giving lectures and educating a new generation of developers into AWS community. This includes a series of interviews Goran runs with prominent technology leaders on his YouTube channel. His latest project is an online event called DB MicroConf related to AWS databases.

Hakan Evkuran

Overcoming regulations with Amazon EKS Anywhere

Talk Level: 200 - Intermediate
Talk Type: Session
Talk Language: English

Regülasyonlar sebebiyle bulut ortamında çalışamayanlar, AWS çözümü Amazon EKS Anywhere ile onprem ortamda güncel ve güvenilir bir Kubernetes ortamına sahip olabilir. vSphere üzerinde Standalone Cluster ve Management Cluster yapılarını ve Amazon EKS Anywhere'nin kattığı diğer olanakları konuşuyor olacağız.

İrem Kömürcü

Analysis of IoT Data in AWS Environment with ML Algorithms

Talk Level: 300 - Professional
Talk Type: Session
Talk Language: Turkish

[TR ] Gerçek bir projeden edinilen tecrübeler ile, fabrika ortamında toplanan IOT verilerinin, Greengrass yardımı ile farklı AWS servisleri kullanılarak analiz edilmesi anlatılacaktır. MDF üretimine ait olan bu senaryoda, kullanılan malzeme miktarlarının optimize edilmesi ile fabrika içerisinde ciddi bir kar sağlanmıştır. Proje tamamen AWS servisleri üzerinden alınan veriler ve Lambda üzerinde çalıştırılan Machine Learning algoritmalarını kapsamaktadır.

Bio:İrem has started to work with Cloud technologies for the working environment required by Machine Learning studies, and now she presents all projects professionally in the Cloud environment. İrem, whose main area of expertise is Deep learning networks, was selected as a Google developer expert in Machine Learning in 2022. She is working as a Data Scientist at Deloitte.

Kemal Çağın Gülşen

CDK: From Infrastructure Nirvana to a Nightmare

Talk Level: 200 - Intermediate
Talk Type: Lightning
Talk Language: English

We started working on a greenfield web application project and picked AWS CDK for the Infrastructure as Code tooling. The project lifted off rapidly thanks to the Level 3 Constructs of AWS CDK. Then it turned into a nightmare because of the security and compliance requirements. We started from scratch and wrote all the infrastructure code again. Eventually, everything went great, and we turned the stacks into a blueprint for future projects. In this talk, I will share our story with the lessons learned.

Bio:Kemal is a technical architect enjoys building both applications and cloud platforms. He has seven years of AWS experience, and in the last five, he worked for the enterprise customers of AWS in the Netherlands and UK. He helps and guides DevOps teams in their cloud journeys by working in the central cloud teams.

Maria Encinar

Bio:Maria leads the AWS User Group Global Program as part of Developer Relations team at Amazon Web Services. Prior to leading the developer community team at PagoNxt/Banco Santander, she worked at Google as a community specialist. A community nerd with 14+ years of experience leading and working with communities, Maria cherishes the intersection of technology and communities where she helps build environments for people to learn, collaborate and grow.

Mohammed Fazalullah Qudrath

Bio:Mohammed Fazalullah (call me “Faz”) is a Senior Developer Advocate at AWS for the MENA region. He is based in the UAE and educates and empowers developers on achieving cloud capabilities, allowing them to concentrate on interesting problems while AWS handles the heavy lifting. An architect and a technical evangelist at heart, he speaks on various trends in the technology space with the focus of building and scaling in the cloud in and around Asia. He has designed and built products for over 17 years in the enterprise and SME space, along with building engineering teams and helping them scale.

Mohammed Izzy

Leveraging CEP (Complex Event Processing) to build serverless event driven notification systems

Talk Level: 300 - Professional
Talk Type: Session
Talk Language: English

In this session, we will explore how CEP (Complex Event Processing) systems in conjunction with serverless technologies can be built to deliver real-time notifications for better consumer experiences. By leveraging managed AWS services like MSK (Apache Kafka), Kinesis Data Analytics for Apache Flink, Pinpoint and serverless components like Lambda, DynamoDB, we will able to process events from the source at scale and make meaningful decisions whether a notification should be sent or not.

Bio:Serverless enthusiast. Helping enterprises build performant serverless applications. Like to travel, read (non-fiction) and game when I can.

Mustafa Akın

Improving AWS Trust Relationship with External Systems Without Static Keys and Passwords

Talk Level: 300 - Professional
Talk Type: Lightning
Talk Language: English

Connecting our AWS accounts with external systems is a common requirement for various use cases, including security, observability, and operations. This presentation will explain how to achieve secure connections without relying on static IAM user keys. We'll demonstrate how to use IAM roles and OIDC integration with Bitbucket and Github, as well as the newly released IAM Roles Anywhere service.

Bio:Mustafa Akın graduated from Bilkent Computer Science and Engineering Department in 2013. After completing his master’s in Container Scheduling in the same department, he worked as a software engineer at T2 and afterwards in Havelsan, before working as a SRE in Opsgenie for 5 years. Following the acquisition of Opsgenie by Atlassian, he founded Resmo with a $1.3 million pre-seed investment from ScaleX Ventures. Resmo, which employs a total of 12 engineers, collects the Cloud and SaaS assets of companies and ensures their querying and security with SQL

Nagihan Kıvanç

Reusable environments using CDK with TypeScript

Talk Level: 200 - Intermediate
Talk Type: Session
Talk Language: English

The AWS CDK is a framework for writing code to define dependable, scalable, and cost-effective cloud infrastructure applications and deploying that infrastructure using AWS CloudFormation. Because of its type safety, extensive documentation, and tested architectures using Jest, TypeScript is one of the best programming languages for CDK. In this talk, I will walk you through the process of creating reusable infrastructures on AWS using the TypeScript CDK.

Bio:Nagihan Kıvanç worked as a DevOps Engineer in various software companies for over 5 years. She has developed, tested, automated, and managed CI/CD processes for high-scale production workloads on AWS.

Orcun Hanay

.NET Application Modernization on AWS

Talk Level: 200 - Intermediate
Talk Type: Session
Talk Language: Turkish

Başarılı bir uygulama modernizasyon stratejisi, iş ihtiyaçları ile başlar ve ardından teknolojilere odaklanır. Amazon Web Services (AWS) uygulama modernizasyonuna yol haritası olarak iki aşamada yaklaşır: keşif ve mühendislik. Bu oturumda .NET dünyasında varolan duruma göz atıp, bir modernizasyonun doğasına keşfe çıkacağız. Farklı modernizasyon türlerini, karşımıza çıkacak zorlukları ve çözüm için yaklaşımların yanı sıra modernize etmenin faydalarını inceleyeceğiz.

Bio:I worked in the fields of analysis, architectural design, coding, deploying, monitoring, and improvement for more than 12 years. I focus on Application Modernization for the last 4 years. I learned the concept of Martin Fowler’s “Technical Debt” with deep experience. For an application that creates a successful and competitive advantage; I believe that modern technology and automation are important.

Slobodan Stojanovic

From 1 to 101 Lambda functions in production: Evolving a serverless startup architecture

Talk Level: 200 - Intermediate
Talk Type: Session
Talk Language: English

"Building a serverless function or an API is easy. However, things get a bit more complicated as your application grows. What works for a few functions often doesn't work for hundreds of functions and services. As your application grows, you'll need to evolve your architecture, deployment, monitoring, and tooling.
This talk is a case study of the serverless startup's architecture evolution. We started with a single Lambda function in early 2018 and evolved our application through multiple stages and architectures. Currently, the application uses CQRS with GraphQL and 200 Lambda functions serving millions of requests. We faced and solved many issues during the last four years, learned many things, and managed to keep our infrastructure costs low."

Bio:"Slobodan Stojanović is the CTO of Vacation Tracker, a leave-tracking tool for managing your team's leave of absence. He is based in Belgrade, Serbia and is the JS Belgrade meetup co-organizer.
Slobodan is an AWS Serverless Hero, Claudia.js core team member, and co-author of the ""Serverless Applications with Node.js"" book, published by Manning Publications. "

Yusuf Tayman

Mastering Cloud Performance with AWS Managed Grafana and k6

Talk Level: 100 - Introductory
Talk Type: Session
Talk Language: Turkish

We will explore how to leverage AWS Managed Grafana and k6 to optimize performance and monitor the health of your cloud environment. We will cover best practices for using these tools to gain insights into the performance of your applications and infrastructure, and how to use this information to identify and troubleshoot potential issues. Additionally, we will discuss how to set up custom dashboards and alerts, and how to integrate with other monitoring and observability tools with k6. By the end of this session, attendees will have a solid understanding of how to use AWS Managed Grafana and k6 to enhance their cloud performance and observability strategy.

Bio:I am a Senior QA Engineer at OpenPayd, and I am responsible for developing and implementing observability and testing strategies to ensure the highest quality of the company's products. I have a strong background in software development and testing and have a deep understanding of the importance of observability in optimizing performance and identifying potential issues. Also, I have used a variety of tools and techniques to improve the observability of the OpenPayd platform.