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Week 6

Tuesday​

Meeting Cancelled

Thursday​

🎥 Meeting Recording:​

🚩 Agenda​

  1. Sign in with attendance code
  2. Presentation by Andrew Aiken regarding AWS Event Driven Services
  3. Presentation by Club E-Board regarding current long-term projects
  4. Questions
  5. Break for Pizza
  6. Shift to Hands-on section

🪄 Meeting Resources​

Andrew's Presentation Other useful resources from the presentation

📓 Meeting Notes​

Virtual: 5
In-Person: 18

AWS Event Driven Architecture

What is S3

  • Bucket and object
  • Versioning
  • Lifecycle rules
  • Storage classes
  • Permissions

Quick Demo on S3

  • Explain differences between paths on file storage vs object storage
  • Demo versioning
  • Possible to turn object storage into a file server (simple webpage)

Lambda
Serverless Compute offering from AWs.
Support multiple runtimes and follows a pay as you go pricing model.

  • Testing
  • Monitoring and logging
  • VPC network attachment
  • AWS IAM integration
  • Enviornment variables
  • Concurrency
    • Memory
    • Timeouts
    • Cold vs Warm Start
  • Event Driven triggers

Quick Demo on Lambda

  • Various ways to trigger

API Gateway
Managed API service that supports multiple common connections, automatic scaling and integrates with other AWS services.

  • Integrations (Lambda, VPC, etc)
  • Connections
    • HTTP
    • REST
    • Websocket

Quick Demo on API Gateway

Simple Queue Service (SQS)
Fully managed message queuing for micorservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications

  • Standard Queues vs. FIFO Queues
  • Message Ordering
  • Visibility Timeouts

Quick Demo on SQS

Simple Notification Service (SNS)
Facilitates communication between services (HTTP/s, Email, SMS, Lambda, SQS, etc)

  • Pub/Sub messaging
  • Topics and subscriptions
  • Support delivery protocols

Quick Demo on SNS

EventBridge
Serverless event buss that can connect different services together

  • Rules
  • Targets
  • Triggers
    • Crons
    • AWS Events

Quick Demo on EventBridge

Questions

  • Q: SNS usecases?
    • A: Usesful for integrations with webhooks. Useful to be used within a trigger sequence that would say cause messages to be sent

🎓 Current Projects Presentation​

Presentation

🧑‍💻 Hands on Section​

Intent

  • Explain Fundamentals of git
  • Add audience members to member list in website landing page

Tasks

  1. Install git onto audience computers
  2. Configure git profiles
    1. user.name
    2. user.email
    3. GitHub SSH keys
  3. Clone Website repository
  4. Make the appropriate edits to members json file
  5. Commit changes to a local branch
  6. Publish branch to remote repository on GitHub
  7. Create a pull request on GitHub
  8. Await approval
  9. Merge changes and rebuild!

Content covered

  1. Installed git onto audience computers
  2. Cloned website repository
  3. Created and commited changes to local branch
  4. Started configuring git credentials (user.name & user.email)
  5. Started process to create SSH key

To-do for members

  1. Complete git profile configuration
    1. git config user.name YOUR-GITHUB-USERNAME
    2. git config user.email YOUR-GITHUB-ASSOCIATED-EMAIL
  2. Create an SSH key and add it to GitHub
    1. ssh-keygen in your shell, specify where to place the generated key & provide a key passphrase (SSH key password for performing git operations)
    2. Navigate to your GitHub SSH keys, Profile -> Settings -> SSH and GPG Keys
    3. Click New SSH Key
    4. Name the key according to where you are using it, IE Personal Laptop
    5. Provide the content of the key from the generated .pub file
    6. Add SSH Key
    7. More details on generating
    8. More details on adding
  3. Request admition into club GitHub Organization, @ or DM anyone from the E-Board.
  4. Publish your branch to the git repo for the website
  5. Request a PR

Covered fundamentals of git:

🚀 Next Meeting​

Covering fundamental topics within CS

  • Git & GitHub
  • React.js
  • Go, Python

Looking to onboard more members to large scale projects

See you next meeting!👋