June Birmingham Digital & DevOps Meetup
Details
Welcome to our June MeetUp, which will take place at The Old Joint Stock (http://www.oldjointstock.co.uk/) in Birmingham, starting at 18:00.
We have lined up some industry experts to discuss a range of topics including the current favorite "GDPR".
It's our Anniversary at the Old Joint Stock so in celebration we've booked the larger Theatre... and as usual will be providing food & drinks 😊
More detail on the Agenda will follow soon, but for now SIGNUP!
17:30-18:00 - Meet & Greet
18:00 - Opsview & Kubernetes: Presented by Opsview themselves, this talk will show the latest work in integrating the popular orchestration tool with the leading Monitoring software.
Synopsis: Technologies like Kubernetes, with its amazing resiliency features, state-driven architecture, federation capability, and ubiquity (Kubernetes is available in turnkey and managed forms from all popular cloud providers, and can easily be deployed on public and private IaaS fabrics and bare metal infrastructure) are now delivering the long-promised benefits of hybrid cloud to enterprises.
Meanwhile, emerging technologies like open serverless computing (e.g., platforms such as OpenFaaS), running on Kubernetes and other container orchestrators, make it easier than ever to consume cloud resources dynamically and efficiently, with the absolute minimum of required operator overhead. In this hands-on talk, we’ll demonstrate OpenFaaS on Kubernetes (on AWS), show how functions-as-a-service autoscales, and discuss some best-practices and benefits of monitoring complex cloud stacks of this kind at the infrastructure level.
Bio: To Follow
18:30 - GDPR: A talk from the triple award winning Ed Tucker, CIO at DP Governance (DPG).
Synopsis: To Follow
Bio: Ed is a deeply experienced IT professional with a rich history in security in extremely complex environments.
19:15 - Break - Food & Drink
19:30 - Dashing: The exceptionally handsome dashboard framework. Presented by Alex Fisher, Software Engineer Lead, Capgemini.
Synopsis: Talk about using the dashboard framework Dashing/Smashing to quickly create dashboards that pull and aggregate data from any tooling with an API or HTML page. Will cover the usual: what it is, how it works and some examples of dashboards ranging from tracking weight loss to monitoring the deployment pipeline for a team’s microservices.
Bio: Alex is working as a Technical Lead at Capgemini, building Scala microservices using the Play framework and built with sbt for a well-known organisation with development centres all over the UK. Interests include ‘smart’ home devices, automation and improving team working practices
20:00 - Close & Networking