LOPUG Lightning Talks Event: Thursday 20th November, 6.30pm onwards

We’re taking a break from the standard format and have arranged an evening of lightning talks.
The event will start at 6.30pm with food and drink on arrival, and talks will start at 7pm.

6.30pm – 7.00pm = arrive, eat, drink, mingle, chat...
7.00pm – 7.40pm =

• Paula Kennedy, COO at CloudCredo
Microaggression: Impact on Women in IT
Where are all the women? Paula takes a look at “microaggression” and reviews whether this is a contributing factor to the issue of gender discrimination in the IT industry.

• Tareq Abedrabbo, CTO at OpenCredo
The 7 Deadly Sins of Microservices
From the “Distributed Monolith” to the "Enteprise-OSGI-Application-Service-Bus”,Tareq will take a tour of some of the nastiest anti-patterns in micro services, giving you the tools to not only avoid but slay these demons before they tie up your project in their own special brand of hell.

• Steven Bryen, Solutions Architect at AWS
AWS Lambda - An Event Driven Compute Service
Steven will introduce AWS Lambda, a brand new compute service from Amazon Web Services. AWS Lambda runs code in response to events and automatically manages the underlying compute resources. This enables the build of many types of applications without managing back end compute resources. Some use cases include, Internet of Things (IoT) Devices, Data Triggered services and Stream Processing.

7.40pm – 7.55pm = break
7.55pm – 8.35pm =

• Ilya Dmitrichenko, Engineer at Zettio
Weave - the Docker network
Ilya will introduce Weave, highlight a few advantages that it provides and explain how easy it is to implement a complex application-oriented network with Weave. He will also describe a couple of use cases, such as using Weave with Google Kubernetes.

• Nadia Odunayo, Software Engineer at Pivotal
Game Theory: What’s PaaS Got To Do With It?
What have things like bargaining and auctions got to do with things like resource allocation and cloud orchestration? In this talk, Nadia will demonstrate how we can use game theory to better grasp the range of concepts involved in the cloud computing space.

• Chris Swan, CTO at CohesiveFT
Docker and the end of the distro (as we know it)
Right now it's pretty typical to run Docker on a regular distribution like Ubuntu or CentOS, and to run that same distro inside of Docker. CoreOS (or Project Atomic) gives us something lighter to run Docker on, but you can't usefully run CoreOS inside a container - so what should go inside?