DevOps Exchange - London

Join us on Thursday 26th June as we tune into talks from three leading tech giants – Google, Capgemini, and our hosts at Zuhlke Engineering as we dive into; smarter incident management, cloud acceleration with Platform Plane and and building platforms that enable Data & AI collaboration.

Ayelet Sachto (Google) will dive into managing production incidents, because even the best systems encounter the unexpected. You will learn how to reduce detection and repair times, strengthen response strategies, and run more effective postmortems. Expect a practical mix of technical approaches and team dynamics to help your organisation respond smarter and recover faster.

Ezhil Suresh (Capgemini) will explore how platform engineers can become the vital bridge between data consumers and AI enablers. This talk explores how they can shift mindsets, break silos, and design platforms that enable seamless collaboration and scalable innovation.

Immo Huneke (Zuhlke Engineering) will explore how Zuhlke's Platform Plane is enabling teams to deliver better software, faster. By handling everything from toolchain selection and GitOps to DevSecOps and observability, this flexible platform takes care of the heavy lifting, so developers can focus on what they do best.

In our usual format, there will be 3 x 20 minute talks. Doors will open at 6:15pm, and talks will begin promptly at 6:50pm to allow time for Q&A after each session.

Drinks and refreshments will of course be available throughout.

Agenda:
6:15pm - Doors open
6:50pm - Ayelet Sachto, Technical Leader @ Google
"​​Maintaining Reliable systems: How to minimise incident impact? Focus on incident management and postmortems"

Incidents are expensive to the business, especially if customers leave us if we are perceived as unreliable. But failures will happen, it's not an issue of IF, but a question of when. So how can we reduce the impact on our users?

In this talk, I will review the production incident cycle, the time that we are not reliable and our users are not happy which includes the time to detect, time to repair and time between failures. I'll share a few methods to tackle each one of those parts in order to minimise incident impact both from technical and people aspects, while focusing on incident response and postmortems.

Bio: Ayelet Sachto is an award winning technical leader, speaker, mentor, and author with 20 years of experience in the software industry. Currently, she's a GCP Reliability Tech Leader at Google and was formerly a Strategic Cloud Engineer leading PSO-SRE efforts in EMEA. Throughout her career, she developed and designed large scale applications and data flows, while implementing DevOps and SRE’s methodologies.

7:15pm - Ezhil Suresh, Principal Technology Lead @ Capgemini
"Evolving role of platform engineers in Data and AI"

There are needs to connect different platform personae to connect consumers and enablers of ubiquitous Data and AI. Platform engineers are best positioned to make these connections possible. However, to be effective they need to learn new concepts and unlearn how they would have treated workloads in cloud and container platforms. Talk in the language that the other persona understands.
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Bio: Spanning nearly three decades, Ezhil Suresh has demonstrated adaptability in developing his knowledge and experience in various tools and technologies. In the last 5+ years he has been on a large Central Government Department, leading engineering teams in complex delivery ecosystem to design, build and operate some of the largest and secure cloud, container and data solutions.

7:40pm - Immo Huneke, DevOps Engineer @ Zuhlke Engineering
"Platform Plane: an accelerator asset for Cloud applications"\

The Platform Plane accelerates your product development process, boosts productivity, and helps you deliver better software faster – across all your teams. This floating platform can be quickly deployed and adjusted to your specific needs. It uses best of breed tools, links them together, integrates existing platforms/cloud solutions, and provides an outstanding developer experience for faster time to market and happier product teams. It can reduce development costs by more than 25% through self service, standardisation, developer efficiency, automation and improved product quality.

To free up developers to concentrate on developing their applications, Platform Plane takes care of all the tedious tasks that projects otherwise have to deal with:

• Toolchain – select from an ever-growing palette
• Deployment to multiple dev and test environments
• GitOps
• DevSecOps
• Centralised security
• Identity and Access Management
• Observability

All without vendor lock in!

Bio: Immo has been a software developer since 1980, and is passionate about advancing the field while ensuring an enjoyable process. Chair of the BCS SPA specialist group and currently a DevOps Engineer at Zühlke Engineering Ltd, he brings expertise across multiple industries and technologies.

We hope to see many of you at this event!

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Thanks,
Leah, Tony and the DOXLON team

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