Once again, as in olden days
Hi there. Hope you’re hanging in through all this.
Whatever the future holds, you’re a smart, capable and amazing human being.
Together, we’ll have to muddle through somehow.
The true holiday tune heads reading this might already see this ham-fisted transition coming, but we’re hoping your future includes the Indy Hackers Holiday Social - back after a year off and rebooted with a new vision, a new venue, and new vigor.
But the same community and the same amazing evening of catching up with each other and having a bit of a nerdy winter frolic.
Even pre-pandemic, the holiday social was one of the most cherished things Indy Hackers did - providing many of us a once-a-year opportunity to say hi to friends old and new, catch up on what’s been going on in each others’ lives, and generally have a great social time.
Since then, it’s our belief that the human need for community makes events like this even more valuable and necessary than before.
And, with so many of us working remotely, or for ourselves, or looking for work, it can also serve as a sort of office holiday party for those with no office included.
We sincerely and entirely hope to see you - yes, you - there. We’ve missed you, and can’t wait to wish you a happy holiday season as only our roving band of nerds can do.
Saturday, December 14. 7pm.
Liter House, right off the Monon in beautiful Broad Ripple.
Sign up below.
2024 Indy Hackers Holiday Social Tickets, Sat, Dec 14, 2024 at 7:00 PM | Eventbrite
Our largest event of the year brings everyone together for a night of celebration!
We also couldn’t do events like this without sponsors chipping in.
In addition to the annual sponsors down at the bottom, the following fine folks are directly contributing to the Holiday Party: Brooksource, Equatable Consulting, E-gineering, IN Tech for Progress, and Lucid Services Group.
Meetup. Of. The. Fortnight!
Indy AWS: From Zero to Serverless: Building a Real-Time Leaderboard with AWS SAM
7:00 PM - E-gineering Annex, Suite 110
8415 Allison Pointe Boulevard · Indianapolis, IN
In this hands-on session, we'll demonstrate the power of AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) by building a fully functional leaderboard application from scratch. Using a real-world example that tracks and displays competitive results, we'll explore how SAM simplifies the development and deployment of serverless applications on AWS.Attendees will learn how to:
Define infrastructure as code using SAM templates
Set up a secure API Gateway with public and authenticated endpoints
Implement serverless authentication using Passage
Create Lambda functions for data processing and retrieval
Design DynamoDB tables with efficient access patterns using GSIs
Deploy the entire stack with a single command
Whether you're new to serverless or looking to streamline your development workflow, this presentation will show you how SAM can help you quickly build production-ready applications while following AWS best practices. We'll cover common pitfalls, local testing strategies, and tips for maintaining serverless applications in production.Perfect for developers and architects interested in modern application development on AWS. Basic familiarity with AWS services is helpful but not required.
Upcoming Events
Indy.js - Nov 19 7:00pm
Indy AWS - Nov 19 7:00pm
AI Engineering Katas [Online] - Nov 20 5:30pm
Downtown Code and Coffee [In Person] - Nov 21 7:00am
Fishers Code and Coffee [Online] - Nov 21 7:30am
Broad Ripple Code and Coffee [Online] - Nov 27 7:30am
Free Code Camp Indy - Nov 27th 6pm
Is there an event you would like to announce here? Let us know at newsletter@indyhackers.org and we’ll get it added to the calendar.
New on the Job Board
The IndyHackers job board is free to companies and the community. Our goal is to help as many community members as possible land jobs they love at companies based here in Indiana, growing the community of hackers throughout the state.
If your company is hiring, post your job here.
If you’re hunting for a job, the full job board is here or you can follow along in #jobs in our Slack. Or: Just reply to this email with what you’re looking for.
One last thing
I wrote recently about leaning into ways I can inject kindness, lightness, politeness, and levity into the world.
I’m trying to identify opportunities that are easy for me to do, but have an outsize impact on other people’s lives.
This newsletter is one of those things.
I never know for sure who reads down this far, or how they react to the droppings I leave down here.
But my goal is to make them smile a bit, or make them feel a bit better than when they started.
When the future - or present - is darkest, these moments of light I can emit can have the most impact.
And, for many, it’s getting darker all the time.
So, I’d like to encourage you to look for opportunities of your own - opportunities to thank someone, or tell them how they’ve helped you, or compliment a job well done.
These things don’t take a lot of effort for many of us to do, but can make somebody’s day, week, year or imprint them for life.
Now more than ever, find these opportunities, and take them.
I know I am.
- Chris Vannoy, Indy Hackers Board Member
P.S. Thank you for reading this far. We appreciate every darn last one of you. We’re here for this community because we love y’all - and especially you specifically. You rock.
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