Cloud Native London, January 2025

Hi folks!

Welcome to our January Cloud Native London meetup, our first of 2025! Join us to hear from our three great speakers and network with your fellow techies over pizza and drinks, or alternatively chat and following along on Youtube!

6:00 Pizza and drinks
6:30 Welcome
6:45 Navigating LLM Deployment: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques (Meryem Arik, TitanML)
7:15 Platform Engineering untold truths: is it just an infrastructure matter? (Graziano Casto and Rhea Arora, Mia-Platform)
7:45 Wrap up

See you there!

Cheryl (@oicheryl)

Navigating LLM Deployment: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques (Meryem Arik, TitanML)
Meryem Arik discusses some of the best practices in model optimization, serving and monitoring - with practical tips and real case-studies.

Meryem Arik co-founded TitanML with the vision of creating a seamless and secure infrastructure for enterprise LLM deployments. Meryem's training was in Theoretical Physics and Philosophy at the University of Oxford. Beyond her contributions to TitanML, Meryem is dedicated to sharing her insights on the practical and ethical adoption of AI in enterprise.

Platform Engineering untold truths: is it just an infrastructure matter? (Graziano Casto and Rhea Arora, Mia-Platform)
The increasing complexity of software development presents significant risks and inefficiencies, especially for large enterprises. That's why companies require a structured approach to streamline software delivery, with a focus on platform engineering and internal developer platforms. While existing literature often discusses platform engineering in terms of DevOps tool integration and infrastructure provisioning, its scope extends far beyond these aspects. To truly enhance service scalability and quality, platforms must prioritize data encapsulation and composability. This means addressing not just the IT infrastructure, but the entire organizational framework. Infrastructure management represents only the tip of the iceberg; to drive a successful platform engineering initiative, factors like data, ML, APIs, security, privacy, and others are crucial for a better software product lifecycle. Let's delve into the unspoken truths of platform engineering by examining the fundamental principles necessary for a successful platform initiative.

Graziano is a software engineer and passionate about agile development and product management. Formerly a developer of distributed systems in enterprise environments and a product manager, he focuses on sharing the myriad beauties of the cloud-native world. Active in international communities with talks and articles, he mainly deals with architectures, AI, platform engineering, and environmental sustainability in the software realm. More on: https://www.castograziano.com/
Rhea is a Marketing Specialist and Developer Relations advocate at Mia-Platform. Enthusiastic about Platform Engineering and AI with a Gen-Z overview of technology. Passionate about tech events and conferences, and collaborative efforts to share knowledge and ideas. She loves traveling, trying new cuisines, and showering love on every dog she sees.

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