Cloud Native London, September 2020

Hi folks,

Due to COVID-19, this meetup will continue as a virtual event.

http://oicheryl.com/2020/03/17/cloud-native-london-going-virtual-and-thoughts-on-running-a-large-meetup/

Join us online and learn about the Kubernetes and cloud native from another three exciting speakers, plus meet your fellow techies.

6:45 Kick off
7:15 Rediscover Redis: Beyond Cache (Pieter Cailliau, Redis Labs)
7:45 How to not kubernetes: old habits in container world (Hubert Bosiacki, Suade Labs)
8:15 Break
8:30 Bring your code and not Kubernetes YAML (Prasenjit Sarkar, Oracle)
9:00 Wrap up

See you there!

Cheryl (@oicheryl)

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Rediscover Redis: Beyond Cache (Pieter Cailliau, Redis Labs)
Building Real Time Apps, is now commonplace in today's connected world. Redis is an in-memory datastore that meets all the attributes to build real time applications. Users love Redis as its fast open source, powerful, K/V data store but it's much more than that. In this talk, learn more about what more you can do beyond caching, real time analytics, messaging applications, time series & much more. You'll get a good overview of why it's so popular as a cloud native technology across all the major cloud providers.

Pieter is Product Manager at RedisLabs and is based in London. He holds a MSc in Computer Science from Ghent University, where he wrote a distinguished thesis on time-based graph models. Prior to joining RedisLabs, Pieter used to work for Neo4j and was an instance of Software Engineer at TomTom, the world's leader in location and navigation software. For fun he likes yodeling on the weekends. Check him out @cailliau

How to not kubernetes: old habits in container world (Hubert Bosiacki, Suade Labs)
Containers allowed us to change how we think about software delivery, but did we change our old habits and forget the phrase: "Works on my machine"?

Hubert Bosiacki is a main infrastructure engineer in Suade Labs. They work closely with banks around the world to deliver the best software using containers.

Bring your code and not Kubernetes YAML (Prasenjit Sarkar, Oracle)
One of the most discussed topics of these days when we talk about Kubernetes and Microservices is developer experience and how platform and DevSecOps engineers can help them with that. Developers don’t want to spend time on how to create and maintain the Kubernetes objects, and many times when they have to do it by doing so application delivery speed gets impacted. The chances of applications with misconfigured objects being deployed in the cluster increases and it creates more burden on the Platform and DevSecOps engineering team to support developers on creating, deploying and maintaining Kubernetes objects. Most of the time the Platform Engineering team is tasked with creating another platform layer which becomes cumbersome, expensive, hard to maintain, scales and opens up opportunities for failure. This session will cover how you use Shipa’s application landing pad to cover up the infrastructure complexity from the developers and let them focus on developing their business logic.

Prasenjit Sarkar is a Senior Principal Product Manager at Oracle for their Cloud Native Services on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure with the primary focus on Cloud Native Applications and Micro Services. His primary focus is driving Oracle’s Cloud Computing business with Start-ups & Key Enterprise customers; helping to shape and deliver on a strategy to build broad use of Oracle’s Cloud Native Services. He is also responsible for developing public/private cloud integration strategies, customer’s Cloud Computing architecture vision, future state architectures, and implementable architecture roadmaps in the context of the Cloud Native Services that Oracle offers. He has 12 Granted Patents in US PTO and an author of 6 books.