This site was created in 2017 to help track local events here in Columbus Ohio that would be good for networking in relation to
job search. The site has tracked thousands of events.
This site was designed, developed and is maintained by Marshall Magee.
If you have any comments or suggestions, please use the Contact Page to send me a
note.
Columbus Networking Site Design
This site was designed using Amazon Web Services (AWS) to reduce cost and daily adminstration effort required. Utilizing
a Serverless and Microservices design pattern. The total cost of running this site on AWS is $1.54 a month and
that includes the yearly cost of the domain name registration. The site is automated except for the task of entering
new events. The site sends a newsletter out each week, tweets about events everyday and cleans up past events. And
even responses to Amazon Alexa request for what events are happening today. Unique features include:
Website files stored on AWS S3. No dedicated server
Using AWS Route53 to route web traffic for columbusnetworking.com
Event are stored in AWS Dynamo Database
Simple and low cost storage of event information
Automatic deletion of expired database records, deleting old events automatically
