iO Associates are delighted to bring you the next instalment in our AWS Virtual Meetup series! In our latest virtual meetup, we were joined by PJ Hagerty, Senior Developer Advocate, who gave a fantastic talk on ‘Proactive Programming Using AWS Services’.

Proactive Programming the feedback loop is one of the most important parts of programming. We write tests and try to mitigate all possible problems, but until we deploy our code, it’s hard to tell what “works” and what doesn’t. In this talk, we discussed methods used to ensure everything works the way it should before deploying to production.

About the Speaker:

PJ is the Senior Developer Advocate at Mattermost and a board member of Open Sourcing Mental Illness (OSMIhelp.org). He is an organizer of DevOps Days Buffalo, CodeDaze, and ElixirDaze. Additionally, PJ is a developer, writer, speaker, and musician. He is known to travel the world speaking about programming and the way people think and interact. He is also known for wearing hats.

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iO Associates are delighted bring to you our next AWS Virtual Meetup! In our latest session, we were joined by Imaya Kumar Jagannathan, Senior Solution Architect at AWS, who delivered a fantastic talk on ‘Your Observability Options Just Got Supercharged. Come See How You Can Make the Best Use of It’. 

In this session, Imaya presented how the monitoring and observability landscape is shaping up, and how AWS’s services such as Amazon CloudWatch, AWS X-Ray, Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, Amazon Managed Service for Grafana and AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry play a critical role in efficiently monitoring your application environment.

About the speaker:

Imaya Kumar Jagannathan is a Senior Solution Architect focused on AWS Observability tools including Amazon CloudWatch, AWS X-Ray, Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, Amazon Managed Service for Grafana and AWS Distro for Open Telemetry. He is passionate about monitoring and observability and has a strong application development and architecture background.

He likes working on distributed systems and is excited to talk about microservice architecture design. He loves programming on C#, working with containers and serverless technologies.

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iO Associates are excited to bring you our next Azure Virtual Meetup! We were joined by Wim Matthyssen, Microsoft MVP and Micha Wets, Microsoft MVP. The topic of this session was ‘Azure Bastion: One Does Not Simply Walk Into My VNet!’.

Security is one of the most important things that a Cloud Admin (IT Administrator) should always keep in mind, especially when managing business critical workloads in Azure. With Azure Bastion, you remain able to connect to your laaS VMs in a secure and easy way.

In this session, you will not only discover how Bastion natively integrates with the Azure Portal but also how you can harden it with JIT and NSG’s to enhance your overall VM access security. So join us in this session to learn some best practices and tips you should keep in mind when working with this ‘jump-box-as-a-service’.

About our speakers:

Wim is a Cloud Architect, who has more than fifteen years of experience with Microsoft Technologies. As a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), his strength is to assist companies in the transformation of their business to the Cloud by implementing the latest features, services and solutions. Currently, his main focus is on the Microsoft Hybrid Cloud Platform and especially on Microsoft Azure and the Azure hybrid services.

Micha Wets is a Microsoft MVP. He enjoys talking about all Azure & Powershell topics and has already spoken at Microsoft conferences, International User Group events, Microsoft hosted webinars, workshops & more. He has over 15 years of experience as a DevOps engineer and has in depth knowledge of private, hybrid and public clouds.

Today, Micha mainly focuses on Powershell, Azure, Azure DevOps, RDS (Remote Desktop Services) & WVD (Windows Virtual Desktop) environments and is particularly knowledgeable about migrating those environments to Azure.

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iO Associates are delighted to bring you our next AWS Virtual Meetup which was hosted on April 21st. The topic of this session was ‘Building Cloud-Native Mobile Applications’, and we were joined by Carlos Souza, Full Stack Engineer at Idopter Labs Tecnologia LTDA.

In this talk we looked at how using AWS Amplify can help mobile projects get off the ground faster and deliver real value to customers.

It was great to see people from all over the globe! We get the most in-demand speakers on your choice of topics, so please get in touch if you have any suggestions.

iO Associates are a specialist, cloud technology staffing firm recruiting the highest calibre of talent across Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) -www.ioassociates.com. In addition, if there’s anything we can help you with in regards to sourcing candidates or finding a new role please do also get in contact.

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iO Associates are delighted to bring you our next AWS Virtual Meetup! The topic of this session was ‘Network Connectivity in AWS: VPC Communications & Workload Acceleration’, which was delivered by David Gendel, Solutions Architect Manager at AWS for the Southeast United States.

This session focused on two critical parts of running your workloads in AWS:

• How do you enable communication between different VPCs.
• How do you ensure that your workload maintains the lowest possible latency for your users.

In the first half, we discussed options and best practices for VPC Peering, Transit Gateway, and the concept of a networking hub VPC where you can run 3rd party products you already know. In the second half, we discussed options and best practices for CloudFront, Global Accelerator, and VPN Accelerator.

About the speaker:

David Gendel first joined AWS in 2013, and is a Solutions Architect Manager for the Southeast United States, focused on Public Sector. David has held several roles with AWS, including Technical Program Manager, running an international internal program covering 7 countries, as well as an Enterprise Solutions Architect focused on the commercial sector, and a Sr. Solutions Architect focused on the public sector.

Prior to AWS, David has held technology leadership roles in different organizations across the spectrum including Bright House Networks, Allrecipes.com, the Port of Seattle, and the Drug Enforcement Administration. David has maintained his area of focus around security & governance, including helping AWS customers achieve and maintain compliance with programs such as CJIS, PCI, and HIPAA.

It was great to see people from all over the globe! We get the most in-demand speakers on your choice of topics, so please get in touch if you have any suggestions.

iO Associates are a specialist, cloud technology staffing firm recruiting the highest calibre of talent across Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) -www.ioassociates.com. In addition, if there’s anything we can help you with in regards to sourcing candidates or finding a new role please do also get in contact.

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iO Associates are delighted to bring you our next AWS Virtual Meetup! The topic of this session was ‘AWS IoT for Developers: Amazon Kinesis Video Streams with WebRTC’, which was delivered by David Malone, IoT Solutions Architect at AWS in the Southeast United States.

During this hands-on demonstration, you will learn how to use common device hardware such as a Raspberry Pi to build end-to-end IoT applications.

In this session, we walked you through the steps necessary to provision a device as an IoT Thing, and then we covered how to use AWS SDKs to integrate a live video feed from your device to Amazon Kinesis Video Streams. Finally, we demonstrated how you can integrate those live video streams into your web or mobile applications.

About our speaker:

Dave Malone is an IoT Specialist Solutions Architect at AWS and has been working with IoT customers for the past four years. In that time, he has worked with customers that range in size from startups to globals and across a variety of industry verticals including consumer electronics, healthcare, manufacturing, and power and utilities. Dave enjoys engaging with developers, architects, and fleet operators to help them understand how AWS IoT services enable them to rapidly build secure, highly scalable, end-to-end IoT applications.

We are really keen to help keep our community positive and engaged, and this virtual platform ensures that we can reach more of the tech community. iO Associates get the most in-demand speakers on the topics of your choice so please get in touch if you have any suggestions. We have some exciting meetups planned for the next couple of months so keep a look out on our Tampa Bay Azure User Group and Tampa Bay AWS User Group pages, or alternatively follow our LinkedIn.

Please get in touch with any questions or suggestions on future virtual meetups!

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iO Associates US are thrilled to be attending the AWS re:Invent Event, held across multiple locations in Las Vegas, Nevada from the 28th of November to the 2nd of December.

AWS re:Invent is a learning conference hosted by AWS for the global cloud computing community. This one of a kind in-person and virtual event features keynote announcements, training and certification opportunities, access to 1,500+ technical sessions, the Expo, after-hours events, and so much more.

iO Associates are a specialist, cloud technology staffing firm who have been firmly situated within the Cloud and AWS community for over 5 years. We support our clients throughout their journey to becoming cloud native and have extensive experience in recruiting the highest calibre of permanent and contract talent across Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

As such, this event is brimming with auspicious information that will greatly impact the knowledge base at iO US and continue to enhance the hardworking and forward driven culture of our company.

Attending re:Invent will be iO Associates’ US Vice President of Sales Nicolette Jaconelli who shares that this event will provide unique networking opportunities, as well as stronger knowledge surrounding Cloud Tech.

Below are some more of Nicolette’s thoughts:

​“iO Associates are officially going to re:Invent this year & we are looking forward to attending this event for the first time! My colleague Matt and I will be there to provide any insight that we can within the Cloud marketplace regarding current & upcoming hiring trends, best practices to retain staff, increasing diversity and much more!

I personally love interacting with any potential customers from either a candidate or client perspective & being able to have that face-to-face interaction is something that I’ve always found to be super beneficial when formulating long-term working relationships!

I am excited for this learning opportunity to gain a stronger foundation surrounding the specifics of Cloud related technologies especially within the data analytics and business intelligence space.”

​Joining alongside Nicolette is iO Associates’ US Lead Principal Consultant Matt Atkins who also shares his thoughts on the upcoming event:

“Extremely excited to be attending AWS re:Invent this month in Vegas.

In what is one of the biggest tech conferences of the year, it provides value to all professionals in the Cloud Technology world.

I am someone who likes building relationships with Engineers and Tech Leaders, so I’m looking forward to meeting people there, whether we have a new or existing relationship.

Learning the ins and out of the technology and the upcoming trends is vital for us to understand our clients requirements and enables us to deliver qualified candidates that not only fit their requirements but, elevates their technological advancement!”

To find out more about the AWS re: Invent, please click here: https://reinvent.awsevents.com/

iO Associates were extremely excited to be co-hosting alongside Lehigh Valley AWS User Group, who last week brought you a fantastic meetup! We were joined by Donna DeMarco, who taught us about her journey on AWS since she first became a customer in 2007.

Donna’s session was titled:15 Years with AWS: Wins, Lessons Learned and Hurricane Sandy.

This was a unique opportunity to hear from such an early customer of the platform: we learned why she moved to the cloud, what has and hasn’t worked, and the lessons she’s learned as the tool has evolved!

About our speaker:

Not only has Donna been working on AWS for 15 years, but she has also been teaching on the subject for Kutztown University for over 6 years. She is also an integral figure in driving STEM engagement for High School Girls in the Lehigh Valley, organizing ‘Girls in STEM’.

iO Associates, Cloud Technology recruitment specialists, have always been a very active member of multiple Meetup groups. We’re really keen to help keep our community positive and engaged hearing from the best speakers on the topics of your choice so encourage you to share this with your team and the wider community.

We hope you enjoy the session above, and please get in touch with us at info@ioassociates.com with any questions or suggestions on future virtual meetups.

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iO Associates are excited to bring you our Data Virtual Meetup!

Taking place on Thursday 17th August at 13:00, this meetup is a community with the aim of bringing together Data professionals nationwide through insightful and interesting talks.

Join us for this instalment discussing ‘How Can Microsoft Fabric Have an Impact on Your Business?’, with our brilliant guest speaker Paul Andrew, Co-Founder & CTO at Cloud Formations and Microsoft MVP!

All this talk about Data-Ware-Lake-Delta-Beach-House-Lakes (or some combination of that) and Data, Yarn, Fabric integration, everything has got a bit… Meshy! Yes, my friends. The beat of the technology drum is certainly relentless. And with no limits cloud scale and huge innovations from the biggest brains.

Two years, it seems, has become the benchmark for tools to live and die by. Reach three years and you almost have a mature product. That said, Microsoft Fabric, the latest offering from global software giant is no exception. But what does this mean for the real world. For the data analysts, engineers and scientists that need to continue answering everyday problems to inform business decisions.

In this session we will firmly ignore the hype and focus on the reality. With the pragmatic view of an experienced architect. The problem of gaining insights from our data hasn’t changed. So, what does this mean if implemented using Microsoft Fabric. What, why and how is the tooling going to change our daily deliverables in the short term, medium and long term. Join me for these answers and more as we explore the impact of Microsoft Fabric-Server, erm, Power. Resource. Thing!

About our speaker, Paul:

Paul (AKA @mrpaulandrew) is the Founder & CTO of Cloud Formations, a specialist data consultancy based in the UK. With nearly 20 years’ experience designing and delivering Microsoft data architectures, Paul leads a passionate team of engineers, supporting businesses small and large with scalable cloud platforms. Business value delivered through data insights. Over the years, Paul has covered the breadth and depth of design patterns and industry leading concepts, including Lambda, Kappa, Delta Lake, Data Mesh and Data Fabric.

Paul is also a Microsoft Data Platform MVP, director for the Data Relay community conference, East Midlands user group leader, book author and mentor. In addition to the day job(s), Paul is a father of three, husband, foodie, runner, blood donor, geek, Lego, and Star Wars fan! Lastly, Paul confesses to enjoying a Ramstein playlist when given half a chance to do some coding for a customer project.

Please sign up for this highly anticipated session via the link at the top of this page. This is not one to be missed!

iO Associates, tech and digital recruitment specialists, have always been a very active member of multiple Meetup groups across the UK. We’re really keen to help keep our community positive and engaged hearing from the best speakers on the topics of your choice so encourage you to share this with your team and the wider community.

We hope you can join us and please get in touch at meetups@ioassociates.co.uk with any questions or suggestions on future virtual meetups.

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The July instalment of the Cardiff .Net meetup has arrived!

This month, the awesome Tramshed Tech is hosting us and we will once again see the return of some lightning talks.

We’ll be joined by two wonderful people that have supported and been a part of the Cardiff .Net journey since it began – Aaron Green & Richard Jackson.

Richard is a Software Developer based in Cardiff that’s been working as part of the Nightingale HQ team for the past year. He made his speaker debut earlier this year at DDD South West where Rich reflected on his past year working in the Microsoft tech stack, informed largely through his experiences at Nightingale.

This month, Rich is delivering a talk called “Process Mapping & Empathy”. While working on process mapping projects, Rich started to appreciate the value of process maps as tools for improving communication, empathy and compassion between individuals, departments, and partners at all levels of business.

This talk discusses the value that comes from visual representations of day-to-day working practices, and how such visuals can be used to make everyone’s life easier.

Aaron is a tech guy turned recruiter (booo!!) who fell in love with programming during the fever dream that was a pandemic and decided to live vicariously through the incredible developers he speaks to on a daily basis. He loves the tech community, runs a meet-up himself, and still codes most days. He’s also a huge anime nerd.

More recently, Aaron has fallen in love with Umbraco and that’s what this lightning talk is based around.

“A Story of Hubris, Learning and Making Friends”

One of the most amazing things about the technology community is the open-source projects that people pour their hearts into, and give away for free just to make the world a better place. You may or may not have contributed to an open-source project, and maybe you haven’t because you’re worried you may not have anything to offer.

Well, we hope in this talk to convince you that you do and you won’t be more unqualified than Aaron was when he turned up to a hackathon and ended the day on a pull request.

Agenda:

6:30pm– arrivals, drinks, pizza
7pm– talks start
8pm– end

iO Associates, tech and digital recruitment specialists, have always been a very active member of multiple Meetup groups across the UK. We’re really keen to help keep our community positive and engaged hearing from the best speakers on the topics of your choice so encourage you to share this with your team and the wider community.

We hope you can join us and please get in touch at meetups@ioassociates.co.uk with any questions or suggestions on future virtual meetups.

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