18:00 Welcome drinks and networking
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18:30 "Intro and news" - Phil Nash
18:40 "So you think you can lead a team?' Paul Grenyer
Software engineering is hard, and leading a team as an engineer can be even harder. Many of us feel more comfortable writing code than working with people, and we often believe our value lies solely in our technical output. But when you step into team leading, the balance shifts: there are more people than code, and your value changes and, often, grows.
Over the last 25 years I was dropped into team leading several times without warning, but three and a half years ago I chose to do it deliberately. It still took more than a year before I realised I was only just beginning to understand what leading a software team really involves.
This revised and updated version of my talk - now expanded to better reflect the ideas in my book So You Think You Can Lead a Team? - shares the highs, lows, surprises, and lessons learned along the way. I can’t promise a magic formula (I’m still learning every day), but I hope to help you avoid some of the mistakes I made and find your own path to becoming a better team lead.
19:10 Pizza, Beer and more Networking
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19:45 " From Zero to Deployed " - Paul Grenyer
From Zero to Deployed: Building and Shipping an AWS Lambda with TypeScript, Terraform & GitHub Actions
Ever wanted to build a serverless function, but felt there was too much boilerplate to write before it gets interesting? In this talk, we’ll walk through creating an AWS Lambda from scratch, using TypeScript, and show just how clean, fast, and repeatable deployment can be when using Terraform for infrastructure and GitHub Actions for deployment.
This practical demonstration will cover:
* Writing and packaging a simple TypeScript Lambda
* Defining and provisioning AWS infrastructure with Terraform
* Automating deployment with GitHub Actions
* Things I’ve learnt using Lambdas
Whether you’re new to AWS or just looking to try serverless, this talk will leave you knowing how to ship robust, serverless functions quickly and reliably, with everything under version control.