Dog Days of DevOps 2024

August.
Summer's gotten long.
The kids aren't back to school yet.
People are taking vacations.
It's hot.
Tech meetups lag.

We have the antidote for these summer doldrums! CloudAustin's Dog Days of DevOps, like our Twelve Clouds of Christmas, is a fast, furious, fun style meetup. Here's a past event for review: https://www.meetup.com/cloudaustin/events/293953044/

Other meetups joining us include Austin DevOps and more! (If your meetup wants to join in, just leave a comment below with a link!)

Thank you to our sponsors!

• Q2 is providing the venue!
• Coder is providing the food!
• Clumio is providing drinks!
• JFrog is providing a serious discount for swampUP only to attendees!
• (And this could be your company! More info below.)

We'll have a dozen (or more) 5 minute lightning demos/talks delivered by all of you! To speak, comment below with your name and the talk's title and 1-sentence blurb to get on the list. Any cloudy, devopsey, containery, high-tech-y talk or demo is welcome. No sales jobs but other than that all are welcome!

1. Nick Silkey - How I Stepped Up My Slack Game
2. Christa Meck - Transferrable Skills: Wrap Up of Austin DevOps' July Event
3. Brad Knowles - Autism and DevOps
4. Dave M. - automating CloudFormation linting and testing with open source tools
5. Dean Whitaker - how to create value quickly when starting a platform engineering initiative
6. Justin - how to train tech topics effectively
7. Troy - How to use container/serverless and Gen AI in your day to day
8. Peco K. - Navigating the expanse - tools of the ancients
9. Daniel H - Backstage, ArgoCD, Kubernetes, TF-Controller, BAKT a Platform Overview
10. Luke - ssh and git made easy with fido2
11. Cef A. - How to deploy a simple production-ready Kubernetes cluster using Terraform, Helm with logging using Fluentbit/Opensearch and monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana
12. ~~Mani C. - Reducing 50% of time in Software Release Cycle. lessons we can learn from Thanos~~ (cancelled)
13. Evan N. - How I Used LLMs to Design a GameBoy Game to Propose to My Girlfriend
14. Ian L. - Quick notes on EC2 storage (feat. EBS and instance store)

Other user groups are invited to join us for the event, just email us or comment below and tell us you're in, then advertise the meeting on your own meetup or whatever.

Speakers
Lightning talks, 5 minutes max! Anything you know, that someone else doesn't and is interested in. Sign up in the comments below with name and talk title and optional one-sentence blurb.

Sponsors
We're looking for sponsors for everything ranging from food to drinks to door prizes! You get a 2-min pitch, and we've got more information on what you get to do that we can send over.

Want to sponsor? Let us know here