How Cloud Dev Environments Are Central & 5 common mistakes in DevOps strategies.

Two exciting topics, two very experienced speakers and much networking opportunity. We are very much looking forward to the next DevOps Meetup Zurich. Here's what's planned for the evening:

17:30 - 18:00 - Arrival and first drinks

18:00 - 18:45 - How Cloud Development Environments Are Central to a DevX-Focused DevSecOps Strategy

18:45 - 19:30 - 5 common mistakes in DevOps strategies

19:30 - 20:30 - Networking, Open Space & More drinks

How Cloud Development Environments Are Central to a DevX-Focused DevSecOps Strategy by Laurent Balmelli

The use of Cloud Development Environments (CDEs) is becoming a staple of an efficient DevOps process with the appearance of self-served infrastructure platforms from major vendors such as GitHub Codespaces and Google Workstations. In that setting, an CDE delivers a ready-touse development environment, that can be accessed and authored via a cloud IDE (i.e. browser-based) or a local IDE via SSH. Beside yielding benefits around the developer's experience (DevX), I explain how CDEs can also become a mechanism to deploy security best-practices while keeping DevX intact. In particular, I explain how a DevSecOps strategy significantly benefits from CDEs across a variety of scenarios such as data loss prevention, code security and access control to development resources. In addition, I show how important development metrics such as the average build time and others can be computed in real-time across a workforce thanks to CDEs online accessibility.

Laurent Balmelli

Strong Network, Co-founder, CEO and Head of Product

Co-founder of the company Strong Network, backed by top European VC OpenOcean with a Seed round of CHF 5.2m closed in March 2022 and major customers such as Broadcom and SwissRe.

He sold his last cybersecurity start-up, Strong Codes to the US company Snapchat in 2016 (Bloomberg Technology article) and led cybersecurity efforts at Snap during a three-year earn out period from 2016 to 2020. He left Snap to create Strong Network with Ozrenko.

After earning his PhD from ETH in Switzerland in 2000, he also worked 12 years at IBM Research Division and CTO office in New York and Tokyo before moving back to Switzerland.

5 common mistakes in DevOps strategies by Jan Moser
Devops is one of the buzzwords of the recent years and thus many companies felt the urge to jump the hype train and implement what they considered to be Devops. In this talk i highlight 5 of the most common issues i met during my career when companies implemented their Devops strategy and explain why i consider them issues, and propose potential solutions.

Jan Moser

Lead Enterprise Architect at TWINT

Jan Moser works since many years in different software architecture positions for national and international companies. With a background in software engineering, he successfully planned, designed and helped implement solutions in various business fields such as defence, automotive, pharma or finance. Jan works at the moment as lead enterprise architect at TWINT and helps to simplify peoples daily payment processes.

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