Lightning Talks

Speakers

Tim Little from Kudos Innovations "Role playing incidents for better incident handling "

Bio: "I've been working in systems engineering for over 10 years. My background is system administration as well as managing teams of operators support mailing infrastructure and web applications. Now working with Kubernetes and Cloud native applications"

Mohammed Abubakar from AltoStack Moving on from IaaS and PaaS

Cloud Computing has come a long way but there're are still a lot of inefficiencies and waste of both time and money when it comes to how organisations consume it. Introducing, EaaS (Environment-As-A-Service) a governance driven way of consuming the public cloud securely and more efficiently backed by IaC (Infrastructure as Code) and automation.

I'm the Founder of AltoStack, a DevOps and Cloud Transformation Consultancy helping startups and enterprises operate on the Cloud and adopt DevOps without the need for internal hires.

I've had the pleasure of working as a DevOps Engineer for companies such as Deloitte, McKinsey&Company and British Gas.

Alex Dalitz from NUM Technology

In this talk, I’d like to introduce our open-source technology for storing machine-readable contact information (or any other structured, hierarchical information) in the DNS (acting as a potential whois replacement in one scenario), as well as discuss the huge devops challenge of making this dynamically scalable up to many billions of queries a day, globally.

My name is Alex Dalitz, and I work (amongst other things) as the Chief Technical Adviser at NUM Technology. I’ve been in the IT industry for over 20 years, and have run a successful consultancy, as well as working as a senior member of the R&D team at Nominet, the .uk internet registry.

Alastair Graham Towards functioning open communities

Communities very rarely just form. They need a set of guidelines and principles as a starting point. In this talk we'll look at some examples of what is required to start to build and grow an open source community.

Alastair is an independent Earth observation consultant. He is a member of the OSGEO:UK committee, an organisation promoting free and opensource geospatial software. He was also one of the founder members of Oxford Lindy Hoppers where he focused on building an open and cohesive community.

Adam Roberts from Elsevier “immutable” Jenkins

Jenkins servers can be a pain to manage, and updating them is a time consuming and often overlooked task. This often leads to big bang upgrades which cause downtime and breakages as plugins are jumped several versions.

I am going to talk about a model where Jenkins servers are updated automatically every week using ASGs on EC2.

My name is Adam and I am a Senior Devops engineer working at Elsevier. I focus on developing reusable platform components which are consumed by multiple dev teams throughout the organisation.

Tom Hirst-Dunton from LabMinds What can a Chemistry Robot learn from DevOps?

Reliability Engineering is at the heart of DevOps: continual development of your products and operational systems is required to ensure your expanding services meet their targets for availability. You want the maintenance burden of expansion to scale efficiently, while also getting new product developments to your customers as soon as possible. But how do we take software-centric practices developed to meet these goals and apply them to physical products and human services?

I work for LabMinds, where we produce automation equipment designed to deliver custom chemical solutions to users in a laboratory environment. We develop and deliver the machines, ship and manage the chemicals, and create and improve the solution recipes.

Jonatan Bjork: Learn Ansible in 5 minutes
Jonatan Bjork, former organiser of Ansible Oxford and DevOps Oxford, will show us the fastest way to get your colleagues from zero to playbook.