DevTank March

Hello all, here is the line up for your first DevTank instalment of 2013! Many thanks to Forward for hosting and supplying beer, and Lonely Planet for the pizzas!

Marc Watts – Scaling is Hard

Integration Lead at Lonely Planet (http://www.lonelyplanet.com/)

"At Lonely Planet, we use a lot of great tools. Building and deploying them is only part of the challenge, running them at scale has proven much more difficult. I'll share our stories of scaling open source tools like Logstash and Graphite and discuss the dark side of autoscaling on AWS."

Martin Buhr – Lessons learnt from Loadzen

Founder of Loadzen (http://www.loadzen.com/) – the simple load testing service

"Loadzen launched in January 2012 and in the past year we've experienced first hand the growing pains involved in start up business. I’ll be talking through some of the lessons we've learnt about running, marketing, improving, and scaling our online business – warts and all."

A bit more about Lonely Planet

Lonely Planet’s engineering team is responsible for developing our award winning website and traveller community – www.lonelyplanet.com (http://www.lonelyplanet.com/)

We love tech as much as we love travel, and always look for new and innovativeways to make things better, faster, and more scalable. If you want to get in touch with questions, comments, or anything else, you can reach us at engineering@lonelyplanet.com . You can also check out our blog - http://engineering.lonelyplanet.com (http://engineering.lonelyplanet.com/) and our Github repo - https://github.com/lonelyplanet

We’re also looking to add to our talented team, check out our open roles here http://bbcworldwide.broadbeantech.com/jobs or contact recruitment@lonelyplanet.com

As ever the format for the evening is:

6.30-7.00 - sign in and grab a drink while you catch up with other members7.00-7.30 - first talk7.30-8.00 - enjoy pizza and beer from our generous sponsors Lonely Planet (http://www.lonelyplanet.com/) and Forward (http://forwardtechnology.co.uk/)!8.00-8.30 - second talk8.30ish - wrap up and head to the pub, location to be announced on the night!