DevOps & Platform Engineering MeetUp June 2024

Hey Everyone!

We are excited to announce that our next DevOps & Platform Engineering MeetUp will be taking place on Wednesday June 26th and we are inviting you to join us!

We will have new speakers giving their unique talks on all things DevOps.

With the success of our last event, we will be hosting the next one in the same location, The Academy building on Pearse St, Dublin 2.

It will be another informative evening, featuring talks by expert speakers on the latest trends in cloud computing and virtualization, along with best practices in DevOps and Platform Engineering.

It is a great opportunity to meet new professionals in your field, collaborate and share wisdom and hopefully learn something new!

Where: The Academy, 42 Pearse St, Dublin, D02 YX88
When: Wednesday June 26th from 6:00pm

Agenda for the evening...

There will be two guest speakers on the night, each giving their own talk on their DevOps & Platform Engineering related topic. Each speaker will have about 20 - 30 minutes and will have a Q&A at the end. Once the talks are finished, we can move out to the Lookout terrace which has 360 views of Dublin’s city skyline, where we will have some food and drinks and plenty of time for networking with everyone and taking in the views.

Speaker 1: James Belchamber
James is an engineer with over 15 years of experience, from Linux Systems Administration through to Platform Engineering. He still considers DevOps to be a philosophy (not a job title), and will probably die on that hill. Currently he is leading an observability transformation project for a major airline.

Topic: "Getting started with Distributed Tracing"
"Observability" has become a must-have for many businesses, and in response many monitoring companies have simply rebranded their offering as "observability". But simply re-badging logs and metrics avoids an exciting innovation - distributed tracing.
James's talk will give an introduction to traces and go through the key terminology, before spinning up a demo and leveraging auto-instrumentation to introduce distributed tracing to an app with no changes to the app's code.

Speaker 2: Ju Park
Topic: Transitioning into Site Reliability Engineering
Join us for a talk from Ju Park, an SRE Lead in IBM who started her career in software engineering. Ju will be talking through her journey into Site Reliability Engineering. She will share how she adapted software engineering cultures, methodologies, and automation into her role. Learn about her experiences, the challenges she faced, and the solutions she implemented in the field of site reliability engineering.

Who we are:
At Amach, we provide the expertise needed to meet ever-evolving Aviation IT sector requirements. As Ireland's first AWS Advanced Tier Services Partners with Amazon Connect Delivery Status, we support our customers globally with the industry specific skills and knowledge to deliver successful Cloud Transformation and Customer Service and Experience projects. Leveraging tried and tested tools, alongside cutting edge GenAI and LLM, our services are designed to deliver fast and effective business value to challenges faced by Airlines including; Cloud Architecture, Software Development, MRO, IROP’s, Contact Center, Special Assistance, Legacy Systems Transformation, DevOps, FinOps etc.). Headquartered in Dublin, Amach were formed in 2013 and currently have more than 300 technical experts supporting our customers global reach from more than 15 countries.

Check us out here: https://amach.com/