Amazon re:Invent 2018 highlights

Amazon recent held their re:Invent conference and in addition to announcements of new AWS services and features there was also a lot of good content on general industry trends in and around the public cloud that could be worth checking out. Here are some the sessions I think are worth a watch:

Architecture

• Stateful Services @ Netflix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=valsEK5mIQI
• Colm MacCarthaigh (PE @ AWS) on Control Planes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8xLxNje30
• Peter Vosshal (DE @ AWS) on Resiliency: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swQbA4zub20

Security

• Becky Weiss (PE @ AWS) on Cloud Security: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UDSxV9pbnU
• Eric Brandwine (DE @ AWS) on Shades of Grey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXTvlQXVCOs
• Steve Schmidt (CISO @ AWS) on Security @ AWS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdlFuFhetug
• Provable Security @ Bridgewater: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3JmBhTQmyY
• Provable Security @ Goldman Sachs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rm4mvVeOYYk

DevOps Culture

• Adrian Cockcroft on Trends in Digital Transformation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Gr7hv24jK4
• Sandy Carter on the Future of Enterprise IT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUsN65YHLT0
• Enterprise DevOps 201: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmNCmMyyFBk
• Enterprise DevOps 301 (some overlap with above): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyhuMDozWXk
• Building SRE @ Coinbase: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDr1_-Tttz0
• The Role of Central Teams @ Netflix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xA1qPQg3WTc

Developer Tools

• Containers @ Netflix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IsrZZSUQeU
• Dev Tools @ Amazon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I61KKO1rAQ8
• Cloud Ops War Stories: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGdtGVGTyPU
• Container Power Hour with Jess, Clare, and Abby: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCCkVz25UU4