Experience and Learnings of AWS Community Day

Hello All,

I attended an AWS community day in Ahmedabad, Gujarat on 20/01/2024. I have learned many things, and content is rarely available on social media. I earned so many goodies and swags too.
Now, let me directly jump to the knowledge I learned in the sessions.

1. In the morning, followed by breakfast, the opening keynote session was taken by Suman Debunath Sir and Karan Sir Desai.
I have learned about vector databases and vector graphs.

• Learned about the Large Language model and its limitations of it like Hallucination and Knowledge cutoff.

• Learned about Deep learning’s fine tuning and Information Retrieval.

• The talk was an Information Retrieval Oriented.

• Also, learned about LangChain and its use.

• Then we learned about Visual Search.

• In which we learned about Resume Screening by Amazon Bedrock.

• Resource provided by Suman Sir: https://community.aws/concepts/vector-embeddings-and-rag-demystified

2. In Karan Sir's Session we learned about Frugality and Cost Optimization.

• One resource he provided was: https://www.thefrugalarchitect.com/

After these, keynote sessions we attended the session by the sponsors & partners and got to know more about their products. Like Affinidi, Trainocate, DevRepublic and Rezoomax.

After these sessions and lunch, we started going into the Tracks we were more interested in.

3. First of all we attended a Lighting Talk on Application Modernization by Ms. Bhuvaneswari Ma’am Subramani who has more than 20 years of Experience in tech and which I witnessed. In the session, we learned about,

• Best ways to build a modern application

  • In which I learned about the Operational Model and understood the graph of Level of Abstraction vs. Focus on Business Logic.

  • After that learned about Developer Agility.

• Benefits of Application Modernization

• Best Practices of it.

4. Following the Lightning talk we attended the session on Serice Mesh: ISTIO on Amazon EKS by Dharmang Sir Makwana. In which I got to know that,

• Service Mesh is a tool.

• Also, witnessed new terms like Envoy, Citadel, Istio, and Ingress Gateway.

5. After this session we attended the Session Demystifying GitOps with ArgoCD tool on EKS by Nasiullha Chaudhari aka Cloud Champ(YT).

• In this session, he taught us how to Deploy our application, Tetris Game(In our case) using the GitOps Strategy and tools like ArgoCD.

6. Then after we attended the session by Krutarth Sir Rindani on The Art of Continuous Operation: Zero Downtime Upgrades in EKS Production Environments

• In this session, we learned about Types of Workers.

• Among these, we take a look at AWS Managed Node Group.

• Followed by learning about Rolling Update.

• Learned about Canary deployment and Blue-Green Deployment.

• Then the Pros and Cons of each of them.

1. Finally, attended the last session by Supercharge Your Productivity with GenAI on AWS by Vivek Raja P S. In this session, we learned about,

2. Learned about AWS CodeWhisperer and how to use it.

3. Also, do the hands on the https://partyrock.aws/ which is a very great tool for picture presentation.

4. Finally, learned about Amazon Q.

8. After all this we played a very entertaining quiz and got to know how much we learned.

After all these sessions, swags and goodies. Concluded the session, by getting a bag from aws community in Ahmedabad which made our day.

The AWS services that I was introduced to were, Amazon Q, Amazon CodeWhisperer, and Amazon Bedrock.