It's Time For Our Maiden Event

It's time to kick off Cloud Native Cambridge! This will be the first of what I hope will be many events. We're going to be at the Barclay's Eagle Labs Auditorium on Chesterton Road from 6.30pm.

We'll kick off the evening with some food and drinks at 6.30pm. At 7pm it will be time to grab a seat and I (Josh) will talk a bit about the event, its goals, themes, and plans for the future. Then we'll move onto some talks.

The first speaker will be Alex Ellis - Founder of OpenFaaS Ltd:

Title: What your Grandma didn't tell you about Serverless

Abstract: The term “Serverless” was popularised by managed FaaS offerings in the cloud. We are now seeing strong offerings becoming available on Kubernetes such as Knative and OpenFaaS that also includes APIs, static sites, and microservices. That definition of “Serverless as FaaS” is now
causing confusion for some developers who feel that they may need to learn Kubernetes inside out before they can move onto something more advanced.

The opposite is true. Serverless when applied to Kubernetes brings a PaaS/FaaS style experience with easy packaging, scaling, metrics,
eventing built-in using familiar CNCF projects.

The PLONK stack includes Prometheus, Linkerd, OpenFaaS, NATS and Kubernetes for a complete event-driven platform that is scalable and trusted by dozens of companies in production. Attendees will come away with an understanding of how Serverless on Kubernetes is really
about developer experience and it can be easier than maintaining a
mountain of YAML files.

Bio: Alex is a respected expert on serverless and cloud native computing. He founded OpenFaaS, one of the most popular open-source serverless projects, where he has built the community via writing, speaking, and extensive personal engagement. As a consultant and CNCF Ambassador, he helps companies around the world build great developer experiences and navigate the cloud native landscape.

Secondly, I will be talking about KIND - Kubernetes IN Docker.

After the event we'll wind down with some drinks at a nearby pub.

Please RSVP and tell your co-workers and friends! I look forward to seeing everyone there.

Cheers,
Josh