Kris Howard
Solutions Architect ManagerAmazon Web Services
Kris Howard has been building and playing on the Internet for over twenty years. She leads a team of Solutions Architects at AWS in Sydney, and she speaks regularly at tech conferences in Australia and Asia. Her Instagram account is pretty much all selfies and food.
Talks I've Given
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Serverless in Production: Lessons from a Skeptic
Featuring Kris Howard
Why just migrate your existing infrastructure to the Cloud when you can remove it entirely? Serverless computing is very much the new Shiny, and proponents argue that it allows companies to focus more on their users as well as the features and business logic that are important to them. Kris was a...
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Knit One, Compute One
Featuring Kris Howard
Can a programming language describe art? Is knitting Turing complete? And just how many bytes of data does the average knitted scarf hold, anyway?
These are the questions that motivate Kris as both a knitter and a technologist. As an art form, knitting is inherently binary – just knit and...
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Knit One, Compute One
Featuring Kris Howard
Can a programming language describe art? Is knitting Turing complete? And just how many bytes of data does the average knitted scarf hold, anyway?
These are the questions that motivate Kris as both a knitter and a technologist. As an art form, knitting is inherently binary – just knit and...
languages -
Knit One, Compute One
Featuring Kris Howard
Can a programming language describe art? Is knitting Turing complete? And just how many bytes of data does the average knitted scarf hold, anyway?
These are the questions that motivate Kris as both a knitter and a technologist. As an art form, knitting is inherently binary – just knit and...
languages -
Knit One, Compute One
Featuring Kris Howard
Can a programming language describe art? Is knitting Turing complete? And just how many bytes of data does the average knitted scarf hold, anyway?
These are the questions that motivate Kris as both a knitter and a technologist. As an art form, knitting is inherently binary – just knit and...
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Taking the Management Leap
Featuring Kris Howard
You’ve been working in tech for a long time, and you’re really good at what you do. Inevitably, at some stage the Question creeps in: “Is this the time in my career when I’m supposed to go into ‘management’?” What do managers even do all day? How do you...
software-development