DevOps Utrecht November Meetup

2019 is almost done, great moment to do another DevOps Utrecht Meetup.

18:00 - Doors open. Food & drinks provided by One Shoe

19:00 - Talk #1: Is there a future for DevOps, by Kris Buytaert

19:55 - Break

20:10 - Talk #2: DevOps in a machine learning world, by Petra Heck

21:00 - Networking and beers

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Talk #1: Is there a future for DevOps
Docker has solved all of our problems, the ones left behind were solved by Kubernetes. Everybody and their neighbour is Scrum certified now and we are all happily sipping cocktails on the beach. Or not? Why after almost 10 years of pushing culture change, teaching about Infrastructure as Code, teaching about Monitoring and Metrics … and help people to share both their pain and their learnings are most organisations still struggling with software delivery.

I’ve spent the better part of the last two decades helping both large and small organisations to deliver their software faster with Open Source tools. Somewhere half way that journey we started a conference that lead to the #devops movement. Some of those organisations succeeded in their goals, some didn’t, yet they are talking about their huge successes at conferences preaching the #devops word.

With the knowledge that to a lot of people the word #devops has lost it’s meaning is there a future for #devops? This talk will bring you some ideas about that future … and why we still have to keep teaching people what DevOps is really about.

Kris Buytaert is a long time Linux and Open Source Consultant. He's one of instigators of the devops movement, currently working for Inuits

He is frequently speaking at, or organizing different international conferences and has written about the same subjects in different Books, Papers and Articles

He spends most of his time working on bridging the gap between developers and operations
with a strong focus on High Availability, Scalability , Virtualisation and Large Infrastructure Management projects
hence trying to build infrastructures that can survive the 10th floor test, better known today as the cloud while actively promoting the devops idea !

Talk #2: DevOps in a machine learning world
Engineering machine learning applications is different from engineering traditional rule-based software. We do not specify the rules ourselves, but instead deploy self-learning algorithms that discover the rules from data. This changes the game for both developers and operations and thus constitutes an important future development for DevOps. I will explain the challenges that DevOps faces when engineering machine learning applications and present tools and solutions available to face those challenges.
Petra Heck has been working in ICT since 2002. She started as software engineer, then quality consultant and now lecturer Software Engineering at Fontys Applied University. Petra holds a PhD. (quality of agile requirements) and started a research project on Applied Data Science and Software Engineering in February 2019. Petra speaks on a regular basis and is author of several publications, amongst which the book (in Dutch) "Succes met de requirements".