Cloud Native Computing Meetup | November 2024

Let's meet at the November 2024 CNC meetup on Thursday, November 7th, 2024 at 16:00 CET.

Location:
VSHNtower
Neugasse 6
8005 Zürich

Agenda:
15:30 – Door Opening
16:00 – Welcome, Intro, & Announcements
16:05 – Porting Legacy Applications to Kubernetes: How and Why (Carole Hamer)
16:45 – 5 minutes pause
16:50 – Managing Geospatial Open Data Serverlessly: paddelbuch.ch (Chris Bingham)
17:30 – 5 minutes pause
17:35 – Source code sovereignty: local alternatives for an independent digital future (Tobias Brunner)
18:00 – Final words, networking & apéro

Porting Legacy Applications to Kubernetes: How and Why
Dr. Carole Hamer, D-INFK, ETHZ

Kubernetes is quickly becoming the industry standard for server operations. New software projects today are typically designed to be cloud-native. However, much of the software still running in the wild predates Kubernetes and containerization. This talk is a practical discussion with real-life examples of deciding whether to port a legacy application to Kubernetes and how to avoid common pitfalls once you've decided to do it.

Dr. Carole Hamer has worked as an IT engineer since 1999, beginning in Software Engineering and gradually moving towards DevOps as the ideas and practices of DevOps developed. Over the past 25 years, she has worked at various firms in France, the US, and Switzerland and has learned important lessons from every one of them. She blogs at https://startup2scalable.com and works in DevOps and System Engineering for the Department of Informatik at ETHZ.

**Managing Geospatial Open Data Serverlessly: paddelbuch.ch**
Chris Bingham, cloudypandas.ch

Over the last few years, I've built paddelbuch.ch, an open-source, open-data project that publishes mapping data for the Swiss paddle sports community.
With the goal of a zero-ops, (nearly) zero-cost system, serverless was the apparent technology approach. However, this was not without its ups and downs!
Let's journey together through the technical successes, service issues, and open-source perils that have made up the paddelbuch.ch story.

Chris Bingham was among the earliest AWS-certified Solution Architects and has worked exclusively on cloud projects for 12 years, with a focus on cloud architecture and consulting engagements for the last decade. In the previous 23 years, he's worked on technology projects for large firms in a diverse range of industries across Europe. He currently volunteers with Swiss Canoe as a member of Fachkommision Seekajak.

Source code sovereignty: local alternatives for an independent digital future
Tobias Brunner, VSHN

The source code is the heart of every digital application and therefore its most important asset. Currently, we store this mainly with American providers, which limits local control and independence. In this presentation, we will address this problem and present possible solutions. Open, alternative options for storing and managing source code will be presented.

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