Cloud Native London, January 2023

Hi folks!

Welcome to our January Cloud Native London meetup, our first of 2023! Join us in person to hear from three great speakers and network with your fellow techies over tasty food and drinks, or alternatively chat and following along on Youtube!

6:00 Pizza and drinks
6:30 Welcome
6:45 An engineer's guide to migrating to the Cloud (Aaron East, esynergy)
7:15 3 Pitfalls Everyone Should Avoid with Cloud Native Data (Eric D. Schabell, Chronosphere.io)
7:45 Break
8:00 An ARMful of clusters (Carlos Arilla, Giant Swarm)
8:30 Wrap up

An engineer's guide to migrating to the Cloud (Aaron East, esynergy)
Adapting to change: An engineer’s guide to migrating to the cloud
Adopting cloud native principles
Cascading changes: How an organisations transforms

Aaron has over 15+ years experience working with start-ups, SMEs and large enterprise organisations in financial services, telecommunications, Insurance and government. He has designed large distributed systems and actively worked with teams as a lead and/or Solution architect. Connect with Aaron at https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaroneast1/

3 Pitfalls Everyone Should Avoid with Cloud Native Data (Eric D. Schabell, Chronosphere.io)
The daily hype is all around you. From cloud native, multicloud, to hybrid cloud, this is the path to your digital future. The choices you make as a developer don’t preclude the daily work of enhancing your customer's experience and agile delivery of your applications. With all this delivery and infrastructure, there is a lot of data generated when engaging with any cloud experience. Regulatory and compliance pressures force us to store audit and observability data. Understanding the pitfalls around the collection, storage, and maintenance of your cloud data can mean the difference between bankruptcy and success with our cloud native strategy. Let us take you on a journey, looking closely at the decisions you are making as a developer delivering and dealing with monitoring your applications. Join us for an hour of power, where real customer experiences are used to highlight the three top lessons learned as their developers transitioned their data needs into cloud native environments. Key Takeaways: Attendees to this session will gain insights into the data explosion that is part of the large scale cloud native world. Real customer experiences are used to highlight the three top lessons learned as their developers transitioned their data needs into cloud native environments.

Eric is Chronosphere's Director Evangelism. He's renowned in the development community as a speaker, lecturer, author and baseball expert. His current role allows him to help the world understand the challenges they are facing with cloud native observability. He brings a unique perspective to the stage with a professional life dedicated to sharing his deep expertise of open source technologies and organizations. Follow on https://www.schabell.org.

An ARMful of clusters (Carlos Arilla, Giant Swarm)
ARM processors are disrupting the computer industry on many fronts. First they took the mobile industry and now they are storming PCs and data centers. With an excellent performance per watt ratio and cheaper prices, they look an excellent choice for sustainability and efficiency. Migrating your Kubernetes clusters to ARM processors seems to be a natural step to take advantage of this, but there are several obstacles in the way and you need to be prepared for. Are your apps ready to run in ARM processors? Are your build pipelines ready to generate the needed images? Is your registry ready to manage several architectures for the same images? Can Kubernetes run smoothly on ARM machines? In this talk we will try to answer with different solutions and strategies, based on open source applications like harbor, that can help to run your workloads in a more efficient and sustainable way thanks to ARM architecture.

Carlos has more than 15 years of experience in IT, currently focused on the cloud native ecosystem. He tried once to explain Kubernetes to his wife and then both didn’t understand it. Currently Technical Product Marketing Engineer at Giant Swarm. Father of three. Technology, videogames, movies and music are his hobbies in his (scarce) free time. twitter: @carillan_

See you soon!

Cheryl (@oicheryl)

Check out https://www.oicheryl.com/cloudnativelondon if you're interested in speaking or sponsoring.