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Austin Tech Scene

This is a **virtual** event.

Talk one: Cameron James will be showing her project MoviEmotion for Detecting facial emotions with AI image recognition models. With the objective to identify exactly **which movie moments resonate** most with the audience.

Cameron James
SWE (Principal Eng) --> Portfolio Manager --> Program Director, all in F200, BigCoRetail IT, and BigTech.
\- Tech has always been a thrill for me\. Machine learning and AI took it to a new level\.
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**Sponsor**

**Antler**
Antler works with [founders](https://www.antler.co/location/us) through our signature founder residency, adding value immediately, and taking no equity up front. We receive over 160,000 applications each year to build companies with us, and have grown to 18 funds with residencies in 30 cities around the globe. Founders also have the opportunity to pitch our Investment Committee to receive an up to $500K investment, allowing them to build for 12-18 months rather than attempting to raise before they have real traction.

Our sponsor **Amicus** is a team of specialist Python recruiters who are passionate about developing and nurturing the Python community as well as placing developers in their dream roles. They're providing food and beverages for this event, please thank them for their support! ([https://www.amicusjobs.com/community](https://www.amicusjobs.com/community))
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The Austin Python Meetup Monthly Meetup

We're bringing together a community of people building physical products and hardware across Austin. From designers, founders, engineers, investors, and more, everyone is welcome!

Austin Hardware Meetup

3rd Austin Hardware Meetup @ Asmbly: Embedded Software Dev for Embedded World!

R. D. Childers

Oscar Castillo

Aaron Ledbetter

Andrew King

Lisa Castillo Brown

Brad  Avenson

Mark Hoffman

Mark Shuck

Ryan W Small

Preston Leonard

Nate

Nick Frank

***Thank you to our sponsors!***

* ***[Q2](https://www.q2.com/) is providing the venue!***
* (And this could be your company! More info below.)

**Matthias Luebken** will be speaking on ***Being Cloud-Agnostic*** (45m).
*Multi-cloud adoption has become widespread, but it presents both opportunities and challenges for organizations. Business leaders recognize the benefits of leveraging multiple clouds, but IT departments face technical and organizational complexities. This talk advocates for a cloud-agnostic approach that empowers users to run workloads on various cloud providers. By making the right architectural choices, the initial investment can be manageable, leading to significant long-term benefits, including vendor independence. Discover how to streamline multi-cloud and environments using Kubernetes and CNCF tools. Learn how to integrate disaster recovery strategies seamlessly across diverse cloud platforms. This talk will demonstrate practical approaches to manage and orchestrate resources uniformly, ensuring high availability and resilience. Uncover the power of open-source tools to achieve true cloud independence and operational efficiency.*

**Dave May** will be speaking about ***Automating AWS CloudFormation testing with cfn-lint and Taskcat*** (15m)
*[Cfn-lint](https://github.com/aws-cloudformation/cfn-lint) and [Taskcat](https://taskcat.io/) are open-source tools used by the AWS Integration and Automation team to automate testing of CloudFormation templates.*

**Troy Ameigh** will be speaking on ***Using AI in your Development Pipeline*** (20m)
*Using AI tooling within your CI/CD pipelines can help you to discover standard coding issues, security vulnerabilities and with custom LLM’s you can use it to call out missed standards for you company. Another way that having AI in CI/CD pipeline can help you is making code conversations; as an example, say your company uses a multi-cloud environment, but you spend time converting Terraform templates between each cloud provider by hand. Why not use AI to do this for your in an automated fashion?*

Want to speak? [Let us know here](http://bit.ly/2H9Xkgu)
Want to sponsor? [Let us know here](http://bit.ly/2VvPBxb)

Cloud Austin Monthly Meeting

Personal

FinOps After Dark - Austin Texas

Tim Banks

Forest (not attending)

garima seth

Tarren Luvene

Seth Lake

Bhatia Kamaljeet

akhila

Colin Lowery

yoav golub

Trent Broderick

Finout

Léo Ben Aych

Jeremy

Steph

ReactJS Monthly

**React Office Hours**
Starting @ 5pm we hold office hours. Come on by to get some help, ask questions, and meet other developers. Or just hang out!

**Speakers wanted for this event! Feel free to reach out!**

**Captial Factory is sponsoring the venue!**
Want to be a sponsor? Food, Drinks, Venue? Reach out!

**Schedule**
5.00 - 6.00 = React Office Hours
6.00 - 6.15 = Setting up, eating/drinking
6.15 - 8.00 = Presentations

**Doors open** 15 minutes before. The elevators will work only then. Come to the 8th floor (Captian America room)

**Parking**
There is **partial parking validation**. If you enter the garage attached to the Omni (entrance on Brazos Street) after 5pm and leave before 10pm, you will be given a parking slip that reduces your fee to $8 flat for the duration of your stay within that time frame.

**• What to bring**
Curiosity, Kindness, Willingness To Learn
**• Important to know**
Be Nice!

ReactJS

Hello friends!
Excited to see you again!

This month we will be discussing the spooky topic of security!
- [Cyber Security Cloud](https://www.cscloud.co.jp/?lang=en) is sponsoring!
- [Shankar ](https://www.linkedin.com/in/shankar-rajagopalan-6013092/)will be presenting on Confidential Compute-
(Confidential computing at AWS addresses organizations’ need to protect code and data in use from unauthorized access. This session covers the foundational concepts of confidential computing and explores differentiated Amazon EC2 capabilities—the AWS Nitro System and AWS Nitro Enclaves—that can help organizations raise the security bar to isolate and process sensitive data)

and we are finalizing the last presentation!

Please come as this will be our second to last MeetUp for 2024!
We will skip November and will come back in December with our re:Invent re:Cap!

October AWS User Group Meetup! 

**Join us for Food, Drinks, and Kubernetes on October 24th, 2024!🎉**
We have a special guest [Jonathan Perry](https://www.linkedin.com/in/yonch/) from [OpenTelemetry](https://opentelemetry.io/).

Jonathan Perry is a maintainer of the OpenTelemetry eBPF network collector. His PhD research at MIT CSAIL focused on performance isolation in datacenter and cloud networks, aiming to enhance network efficiency and reduce latency. Jonathan founded Flowmill, where he developed eBPF-based network monitoring tools prior to the company's acquisition by
Splunk. He is based in Austin, Texas.

**Description**
In cloud-native environments, application performance often degrades due to contention over shared resources such as CPU caches and memory bandwidth. Current container technologies lack mechanisms to isolate these resources, which compels operators to maintain low utilization by scaling out their deployments.

This session explores strategies used by hyperscalers like Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Alibaba to mitigate such performance interference. We will review their published methodologies, extracting key principles that could guide the development of a Kubernetes-native performance isolator. Participants will gain insights into the design trade-offs and operational impacts of these tools. Additionally, we will discuss integration strategies for deploying such isolators in existing Kubernetes environments, aiming to optimize resource utilization while preserving application performance.

More at [k8sAustin.com](https://community.cncf.io/kubernetes-austin/)

Join with us!!!

Strategies for Mitigating Performance Interference in Cloud-Native Systems

Join us for drinks and great conversations at [Central Machine Works](https://www.cmwbrewery.com/)! We'll either be inside or outside depending on the weather. Look for the organizers in our light blue polo shirts.

Want to sponsor? [Let us know here](http://bit.ly/2VvPBxb)

Drinks with a Chance of Clouds November 2024 Edition

It's our December tradition - a dozen (or more) 5 minute lightning demos/talks from the members of CloudAustin and the larger Austin technical community!

***Thank you to our sponsors!***

* ***[Q2](https://www.q2.com/) is providing the venue!***
* (And this could be your company! More info below.)

**Speakers**
Want to speak? Email (austin-cug-admin@googlegroups.com) or comment below with name and talk title to get on the list. Talks are OK, demos are better, and there is a strict 5-minute limit. Show off whatever you're working on! Anyone can speak, but no sales pitches please.

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**Sponsors**
Want to sponsor? Super! For 12 Clouds we usually have lots, multiple food/treats, drinks, door prizes... Contact us, you bring it to the meeting, and we'll list you here and you get a 2 minute pitch. (We don't handle money).

**The More the Merrier**
We will be joined this year be the great folks in these communities:

* ...

If your local tech user group wants to just pile onto this instead of trying to schedule a meeting near the holidays are welcome to call this their official December meeting too, sure! Comment to the effect of "add in XX" below and then point your members to this invite! You can also post it on your own Meetup but please ask members to also RSVP here because this will have the correct meeting link when the time comes.

**What's 12 Clouds?**
You can see previous years' 12 Clouds lineups for
2023 (https://www.meetup.com/cloudaustin/events/295907713)
2022 (https://www.meetup.com/cloudaustin/events/287021766/)
2020 (https://www.meetup.com/CloudAustin/events/pljpfrybcqbtb/)
2019 (https://www.meetup.com/CloudAustin/events/pljpfryzqbwb/)
2018 (https://www.meetup.com/CloudAustin/events/gxwbkpyxqbxb/)
2017 (https://www.meetup.com/CloudAustin/events/mzfzwnywqbzb/)
2016 (https://www.meetup.com/CloudAustin/events/qlldhhyvqbbc/)
2015 (https://www.meetup.com/CloudAustin/events/226373629/)
2014 (https://www.meetup.com/CloudAustin/events/212248062/)
2013 (https://www.meetup.com/CloudAustin/events/140828762/)
2012 (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/austin-cloud-user-group-meeting-december-18-2012-tickets-4922596619)
and 2011 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jX1BT9T2tcw).

Want to sponsor? [Let us know here](http://bit.ly/2VvPBxb)

The Twelve Clouds of Christmas - Year 14

It's our December tradition - a dozen (or more) 5 minute lightning demos/talks from the members of CloudAustin and the larger Austin technical community!

Thank you to our sponsors!

Q2 is providing the venue!
(And this could be your company! More info below.)

## Speakers
Want to speak? Email (austin-cug-admin@googlegroups.com) or comment below with name and talk title to get on the list. Talks are OK, demos are better, and there is a strict 5-minute limit. Show off whatever you're working on! Anyone can speak, but no sales pitches please.

1. here!

## Sponsors
Want to sponsor? Super! For 12 Clouds we usually have lots, multiple food/treats, drinks, door prizes... Contact us, you bring it to the meeting, and we'll list you here and you get a 2 minute pitch. (We don't handle money).

## The More the Merrier
We will be joined this year by the great folks in these communities:

* Austin DevOps

If your local tech user group wants to just pile onto this instead of trying to schedule a meeting near the holidays are welcome to call this their official December meeting too, sure! Comment to the effect of "add in XX" below and then point your members to this invite! You can also post it on your own Meetup but please ask members to also RSVP here because this will have the correct meeting link when the time comes.

## What's 12 Clouds?
You can see previous years' 12 Clouds lineups for
2022 (https://www.meetup.com/cloudaustin/events/287021766/)
2020 (https://www.meetup.com/CloudAustin/events/pljpfrybcqbtb/)
2019 (https://www.meetup.com/CloudAustin/events/pljpfryzqbwb/),
2018 (https://www.meetup.com/CloudAustin/events/gxwbkpyxqbxb/),
2017 (https://www.meetup.com/CloudAustin/events/mzfzwnywqbzb/),
2016 (https://www.meetup.com/CloudAustin/events/qlldhhyvqbbc/),
2015 (https://www.meetup.com/CloudAustin/events/226373629/),
2014 (https://www.meetup.com/CloudAustin/events/212248062/),
2013 (https://www.meetup.com/CloudAustin/events/140828762/),
2012 (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/austin-cloud-user-group-meeting-december-18-2012-tickets-4922596619),
and 2011 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jX1BT9T2tcw).

The Twelve Clouds of Christmas, Year 14

PyTexas Conference

DevOpsDays Austin 2025

Austin Tech Scene

Events

The Austin Python Meetup Monthly Meetup

3rd Austin Hardware Meetup @ Asmbly: Embedded Software Dev for Embedded World!

Cloud Austin Monthly Meeting

FinOps After Dark - Austin Texas

ReactJS Monthly

ReactJS

October AWS User Group Meetup!

Strategies for Mitigating Performance Interference in Cloud-Native Systems

Drinks with a Chance of Clouds November 2024 Edition

Drinks with a Chance of Clouds November 2024 Edition

The Twelve Clouds of Christmas - Year 14

The Twelve Clouds of Christmas, Year 14

PyTexas Conference

DevOpsDays Austin 2025