DevOps Exchange - May @ River Island

London's DevOps Exchange in May will be hosted by the one of Britain’s most well known high street fashion brands – River Island on the 15th. The event will take place in the heart of Shoreditch, with another 4 interesting and varied talks organised.

We have a tight limit this month so RSVP early.. See you there!

Agenda

7pm Alessandro De Maria @ Synthace
Introducing Kapitan into your startup: first 100 days at Synthace

Synopsis: Introducing Kapitan into a real startup to simplify processes and gain control over Kubernetes deployments.

My experience of joining a fast-moving startup and initial strategy to gain control over deployments.

Bio: Alessandro De Maria recently joined Synthace, a London Biotech company, as Head of SRE. Prior to joining Synthace, Alessandro was Head of DevOps and Production Systems at DeepMind Health. Alessandro joined DeepMind in 2013 before the Google acquisition, and during the 6 years there he was able to contribute during several start-up / fast growing moments of the company, including DeepMind Health which grew from 6 to 150 in 2 years. Whilst at DeepMind, Alessandro and his team created the Open Source project Kapitan, which is used to manage complex configurations and is especially suited for Kubernetes

7:20pm: Peter Flood and David Edwards @ River Island
DevOps transformation at River Island, a product team perspective

Synopsis: The journey of a fledgling project team into a maturing value led product team embracing DevOps culture. This presentation will include some of the challenges faced and the technologies/processes used to overcome them.

Peter Flood: Golang developer currently working with River Island (contractor). I tend to work on highly-available distributed applications, experienced at all levels of the stack including architecture.

David Edwards: A retail technology expert with lots of experience implementing successful high-quality solutions using quadrant leading vendor and open source technologies covering most parts of a retailers enterprise architecture.

8pm: Daniela Petruzalek – GoCardless
Pac Man from Scratch

Imagine that: a Pac Man clone written in Go that runs on the terminal… with emojis! The purpose of this game is actually to provide a fun way to learn the Go programming language, instead of the traditional API and/or CRUD tutorials out there. While the game itself is very simple and the use of the terminal as a “screen” abstracts the need for using graphical libraries, we are still able to show some powerful features like the use of goroutines and channels.

Bio: A Software Engineer at GoCardless and a Google Developer Expert in Google Cloud. Daniela’s main area of interest is backend programming, but also likes to explore big data and machine learning.

8:20: Phil Thompson @ Bloomberg
The challenge for DevOps isn't Dev, and it isn't Ops either

The content will be on leadership and systems thinking, about how DevOps can be seen as a local optimisation within a system, and solely focusing there may actually worsen the system as a whole.

Bio: A deep believer in people and that things can be better than they are. Has worked with companies across many industries to improve their delivery of value by focusing on accepting and adapting to the complexities of their environments. Better is the goal, and won't be achieved through a focus on the adoption of any tool or process. People will naturally make places better if permitted, we just need to create the environments where they are permitted and will thrive.

It looks to be a great event and we're excited to see you all there!

All the best,
Doxlon team
@doxlon

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