Department of Computer Science and Engineering, PSG Institute of Technology and Applied Research has organised the tenth technical talk under the banner Bits, Bytes & Packets (Series of Online Talks on Computer Science Topics and Alternative Career Options). The talk "AWS Cloud Architecture Patterns to Build Highly Available and Scalable Solutions" was delivered by Mr. Balasubramaniam Muthusamy, Senior Technical Program Manager, Amazon - Bangalore. He detailed on his personal experiences where he has an experience of over 20 years in software product development field. He is an alumnus of PSG College of Technology (1990-1994). He kept the entire session informal and mainly interactive. All the students participated enthusiastically and raised many doubts and got clarified by the speaker. Received very good response and feedback from the participants.
The take aways from the talk

Refresher on AWS services

Setting up of the infrastructure

How to effectively build APIs

Iterated on various storage and retrieval services

Database Layer

Availability and scalability of AWS

Five types of architecture patterns

Multi AZ architecture pattern

Horizontal scaling pattern

Queue centric pattern

Map reduce pattern

CDN pattern

Students from 2nd and 3rd year and faculty members attended and got benefitted from the talk. The participants were interactive and they expressed that the talk was extremely useful in exploring the area of AWS further.