Conference archive field manual

Chicago Coder Conference is rebuilt as a track-based software learning archive.

Recovered event pages, video-track routes, and modern engineering notes organized around the conference topics developers still use.

Recent field notes

Modern software guidance connected to recovered conference tracks.

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Cloud

AWS Lambda: What You Should Know

A field-guide breakdown of AWS Lambda: what serverless functions are, how the execution model works, where they fit, and the tradeoffs teams hit.

Editorial illustration of stacked AWS certification level badges arranged as a ladder on archive paper

Cloud

AWS Certifications: What You Should Know

A field-guide breakdown of AWS certifications: how the levels are structured, which cert maps to which role, and how teams should treat them honestly.

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