Category: Cloud

  • ServerlessDays Helsinki 2019 – The Aftermath

    ServerlessDays Helsinki 2019 – The Aftermath

    ServerlessDays Helsinki was organized the first time ever last week, on April 25th. I had both the honor to be invited to be one of the members of the core team of event organizers and also accepted to talk at the event. The first steps and idea conceived by Marcia Villalba to have a ServerlessDays…

  • AWS ReInvent 2018

    AWS ReInvent 2018

    First a disclaimer: I’ve had this article in the works for a long time. So if you are seeing this only right now, it’s because I’ve backdated the article to last December 🙂 AWS ReInvent is AWS yearly main event held in Las Vegas at Venetian hotel and other venues throughout the city (as it…

  • AWS User Group Finland October Meetup – Sponsored by New Things Co

    AWS User Group Finland October Meetup – Sponsored by New Things Co

    Time for October AWS meetup! This time we were gathering at New Things Co. They had smaller premises, but really cool and modern office. Unfortunately this time we could only accommodate under 50 people on site, but we were experimenting with live streaming this time as well, as we did a bit with previous Liquid…

  • Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service 2018

    Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service 2018

    This year’s Gartner analysis on the Cloud IaaS is fresh out and there are few interesting pointers and easily worth your time to read it through, if the area is of interest to you. You can also find my thoughts on the 2017 Quadrant in my blog post from last year. Microsoft has also bought…

  • AWS Summit Stockholm 2018 – Stream recording and materials

    AWS Summit Stockholm 2018 – Stream recording and materials

    Earlier this week, I wrote this short summary about my trip to AWS Summit in Stockholm. Here is a summary of relevant materials from the Summit, which have been published since. Highlight reel Keynote recording Materials Session slides are available at: https://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/tag/stocksum18 Enjoy!

  • AWS Summit Stockholm 2018

    AWS Summit Stockholm 2018

    AWS Global Summits AWS organizes annually a series of global AWS Summits, and one of them for last years has been organized in Stockholm. As they describe the event, it is a “free one-day event bringing together the Nordic cloud computing community to connect, collaborate, and learn more about AWS“. This years agenda was particularly…

  • Building Cloud Competence

    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…

  • AWS User Group Finland March Meetup – Sponsored by Gofore

    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…

  • AWS Dev Day Helsinki 2018 and Meetup

    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…

  • AWS User Group Finland December Meetup – Sponsored by Cybercom

    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)…