DevOps Exchange July 2017

Hi DevOps Exchangers,

This month we’re back at Sainsbury’s once again on the 27th July with another great line up.

We will be joined by Florent Delannoy from Babylon Health, who will be discussing their journey towards orchestration with a Minimum Viable Docker approach. We also have Federico Fregosi, who will be talking about Kubernetes and microservices at Curve, and diving into the future of the DevOps model. We’ll also be hearing from Jonas Chevalier, who will be discussing how you can use nix to replace and improve upon Docker for packaging microservices.

The agenda will be as follows:

6.30pm: Arrive and drinks

7pm: Florent Delannoy, Lead DevOps at Babylon Health

Title: Minimum Viable Docker: our journey towards orchestration

Abstract: While Kubernetes and Mesos are all the rage, you don't necessarily need a complex orchestration layer to start using and benefiting from Docker. We will present how Babylon Health is running its dockerised AI microservices in production, pros and cons, and what we have in store for the future.

7.20pm: Federico Fregosi, Lead Site Reliability Engineer, Curve

Title: Ops is dead. Long live Ops

Abstract: Ops is the past! DevOps is the present ! SRE is for giants! NoOps is the future! Fowler even says that a DevOps Engineer is an anti-pattern!

So will our job disappear in 10 years? What can we do about it? What is the next set of skills that we need? A startup is often a precursor to larger changes. I'll tell you what we are trying to do at Curve, a Fintech startup where developers build Kubernetes clusters and the SRE team codes microservices.

7.40pm: Jonas Chevalier

Title: Packaging microservices with nix

Abstract: Docker is often used as an end-to-end solution where services are packaged using a Dockerfile, pushed to a container registry and then deployed to a container orchestration like Kubernetes. In this talk, I would like to show you how nix, the purely functional package manager, can replace and improve over docker in the development and build phase of the applications' lifecycle.

As always, we have quite a tight capacity, so please register as soon as you can to avoid disappointment.

We have been at capacity at the venue for many of our recent events, and have had to turn people away, so please do change your RSVP if you can no longer make it in order to free up your space.

Look forward to seeing you there,

All the best,

Tony (https://www.linkedin.com/in/tonychapmanlinux/), Luke (https://www.linkedin.com/in/luke-gunn-61b4107b/), David (https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidgildeh/), and the rest of the DOXLON team

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