DevOpsDC Meetup - September 2015

Join us for the DevOpsDC Meetup Group!

When you arrive - look for people in the lobby who will help get you to the second floor. If nobody is there, look for "Difference Engine" on the door.

Agenda:

6:30 - 7:00 - Meet, greet, and eat 7:00 - 7:15 - Introductions and Announcements 7:15 - 8:45 - Presentations, discussions, etc. Tactics To Kickstart Your Journey Toward DevOps - Jeff Gallimore (@jgallimore (http://twitter.com/jgallimore)), Excella Consulting - You’re probably a believer in the benefits of continuous delivery and DevOps (why else would you be at this meetup?). The rest of your organization... maybe not so much. Maybe you’re getting pushback on changes you believe will make your organization better. Maybe you’re not sure where or how to start to give yourself the best chance of making a change that will work. I’ll give you some tactics to start your journey toward DevOps (or toward any meaningful change, for that matter). I’ll also show how you might apply those tactics to address a specific challenge: adding test automation to a large legacy codebase. The goal is that you walk away with more tools in your “change toolkit” and a little more enthusiasm for shaking things up for the better where you work. Putting Grep Back In its Place: An Introduction to Logstash - Bill Findley (https://www.meetup.com/DevOpsDC/members/9881524/), AddThis - Logstash is an incredibly flexible tool for extracting data and meaning from your logs. I'll show you how I like to use it to expose logs and extract insights from the data they contain. 8:45 - 9:15 - Networking, conversation, planning for next month. Do you have a topic that you'd like to present or one that you like to see covered? Please contact the organizers and let us know (https://www.meetup.com/DevOpsDC/suggestion/)! This is a great venue for lightning talks, first time presenters, and deep technical dives. We all want to hear from you.

We'll be meeting at Difference Engine/Learning Objects this month. Use the Q St. exit out of Dupont Circle metro station for easiest access and look for the Difference Engine sign on the door. We'll have someone in the lobby until a little after 7:00 to let you in.

DevOpsDC is a community-organized Meetup intended for networking and collaboration in the community.

We value the participation of each member of the community and want all attendees to have an enjoyable and fulfilling experience. Accordingly, all attendees are expected to show respect and courtesy to other attendees throughout all Meetup events. Please read more about our expectations in our Code of Conduct (https://www.meetup.com/DevOpsDC/pages/Code_of_Conduct/).