Author: rolle
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Building Cloud Competence
So what is competence anyway? Simply put: Competence is one’s ability to execute given tasks successfully and efficiently. And without going too much to the theoretical definition, what competence is – you need to have enough of right competence at right time to succeed in business. Also, the sooner you realize, that no-one can develop…
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AWS User Group Finland March Meetup – Sponsored by Gofore
On March 8, 2018 we had AWS User Group Finland meetup, which was sponsored by by Gofore. Meetup venue The meetup was organized at Gofore’s Helsinki office penthouse. Tero Vepsäläinen was kind enough to work as the local host and provide space and beverages for all of us. The servings were fabulous, made by Fafa’s. Also…
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AWS Dev Day Helsinki 2018 and Meetup
AWS Dev Day Nordics On 25th of January, AWS had it’s Dev Day summit in Helsinki, where there was a full day of technical talks produced by the AWS Evangelist team. Ian Massingham, Danilo Poccia, Abby Fuller, Julien Simon, Paul Maddox and our very own Adrian Hornsby were about to lay the law about the hot topics of the day. You…
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AWS User Group Finland December Meetup – Sponsored by Cybercom
On 13th of December, we gathered to restaurant Maxine in downtown Helsinki for AWS Meetup. This meetup was sponsored by my employer, Cybercom, so yours truly was acting as the MC. The agenda and the speaker were as follows: Welcome Words – Marcia Villalba (Rovio) Impressions from attende point of view – Rolf Koski (Cybercom)…
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Reinvent 2017 – Some expectations and some predictions
Next week one of the main events of the IT and especially Cloud Services landscape takes place in Las Vegas, Nevada. I guess if you are planning to go, you already have everything set up, as it is only under a week before it starts. And factoring in the fact that the event is sold…
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AWS CloudFront Expands to Helsinki
AWS just announced minutes ago, that they added six new edge locations to their CDN network. And that Helsinki is one of them. There are also three other completely new locations, which are Manchester, Denver and Phoenix. One could say, that this has been long overdue. But finally it is here. This also brings the total…
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AWS User Group Finland November Meetup – Sponsored by Yle
On 16th of November we had the possibility to go to Yleisradio in Helsinki and use one of their main TV studio spaces as the premises for the AWS Meetup. Big thanks for Olli Vistbacka from Yle for enabling this. We had a turnout of about 80 people, so this was a very good session…
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AWS User Group Finland October Meetup – Sponsored by Zalando
On October 26th we gathered to downtown Helsinki to Zalando office for a AWS meetup. I started the journey early in the morning from Tampere and was greeted by the first snow of the season. Morning seemed quite bright with the snow in the ground. Zalando has big offices in Autotalo in Kamppi, in the…
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Me as AWS Community Lead
There is a short post (in Finnish) here about my role as AWS Community Lead for AWS User Group Finland. https://www.cybercom.com/fi/Suomi/Yritys/Ajankohtaista/aws-user-group-finland-on-tuhannen-pilviasiantuntijan-kohtaamispaikka/ Let’s see if we can get that published also in English at some point. In the mean time, go and check out these pages: https://www.meetup.com/awsfin/ https://awsfin.org/ And the featured picture is from my bike…
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AWS User Group Finland August meetup at Alma Media
On the 29thof August 2017 we gather to Alma-building for AWS Finland August meetup, which was sponsored by Alma Media. They have a blog post about the meetup (in Finnish) here: https://www.almamedia.fi/tapahtumat/2017/aws-meetup Agenda for the evening was (links to slides in the topic rows): Opening words from Event Sponsor and greetings from AWS User Group Finland …