14:30 - 15:00 Session Block 6

Amazon’s Cloud Control API promises a unified way to manage AWS resources, but gaps in coverage and metadata can make full automation challenging. In System Initiative, we leveraged Cloud Control API to dynamically generate all the necessary assets for seamless AWS integration—while also finding ways to work around its limitations.

This talk explores how we automated asset generation, the challenges we encountered with incomplete API support, and how we supplemented missing data using AWS CloudFormation resource specifications. Attendees will gain practical strategies for automating cloud integrations while ensuring reliability, extensibility, and a first-class user experience.

AWS FinOps data and metrics are an invaluable source of architectural insights. In this talk, Željko will draw from his experiences to share a pragmatic, data-driven approach to understanding and improving an organization’s technology landscape. He will challenge the reliance on principles and subjective opinions, advocating instead for architectural decisions grounded in real, current data.

Željko will explore how organizations can tap into the wealth of information they already have—from source code and AWS cloud billing reports to incident tickets, financial metrics, and collaboration patterns. Rather than relying on expensive platforms, he will demonstrate how lightweight, open-source tools can transform this scattered data into actionable insights using simple, low-tech components.

Discover how we transformed a fragmented data landscape into a cohesive analytics powerhouse for airline client. This presentation reveals our journey implementing a data mesh architecture on AWS that harmonized 100 disparate databases, enabling decision-making across operations, customer experience, revenue optimization and other business domains. Learn how AWS services are democratizing data and transforming siloed information into actionable intelligence that propelled our client to new heights in the competitive aviation industry.

We’ll present a comprehensive overview of the AWS technologies used at Bitstamp, along with alternative approaches, practical tips, and lessons learned. The talk will cover the full stack—from top to bottom—offering insight into how a crypto exchange leverages AWS to build and operate its infrastructure.

What happens when you hand over code generation to a language model? In this talk, we’ll share our hands-on experience building a full-stack internal tool for the retail industry using Claude Sonnet as an AI assistant.

We used it to write backend and frontend code, generate tests and documentation — and got our MVP done much faster. But it wasn’t all smooth sailing.

We’ll explore:

How we integrated Claude into our development workflow