re:Invent 2014 – Highlights from Las Vegas

Last week AWS held their third annual customer conference. In between the pub crawls and one killer party were a ton of great tech sessions and product announcements. Here are my thoughts on a few of the standouts.

Docker Meetup at Bronto

The June 2014 Triangle DevOps meetup was once again hosted at Bronto. This particular event was one for the books; it’s not only the most highly attended Triangle DevOps event ever, but the largest event ever hosted in Bronto’s Thunderdome! Additionally, this was the official kick-off for the Docker Raleigh meetup group. If attendance and engagement were any indication, technology professionals in Raleigh and Durham are very ready to learn more about Docker and how to leverage it for their own benefit. We were very fortunate to have Aaron Huslage from Docker come to speak to us on this topic.

Aaron Huslage begins with a brief introduction to Docker