Name: Fail Fast, Ship Faster: Learning to Orchestrate Instead of Implement
Start: 2025-11-19T18:00:00+10:00
End: 2025-11-19T20:00:00+10:00

**November Full Stack User Group with Microsoft MVP Gordon Beeming "Fail Fast, Ship Faster: Learning to Orchestrate Instead of Implement"**

Fail fast and often - that's DevOps wisdom, right? I've never failed more productively than in 2025.
This talk walks through a year of shipping real projects by learning to orchestrate instead of implement: natural conversations that become documentation, virtual specialist teams handling complex work, refactoring lessons learned the hard way, and git investigations that run while you make coffee.
You'll see the productivity experiments, the spectacular failures that taught me what NOT to do, and the security patterns that make it production-ready.

**Agenda (AEST):**
6pm - 🍕 Pizza & Networking
6:30pm - Tech News with Adam and Eve Cogan (live from SSW Sydney).
Then **"Fail Fast, Ship Faster: Learning to Orchestrate Instead of Implement" with Gordon Beeming live from SSW Brisbane!**

Gold Coast Full Stack User Group - Azure + .NET + More

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Rob Renwick

Adam Stephensen

Thiago Passos

Adam Cogan

John Bristowe

Paul McCarty

Darren Chapman

Gordon Beeming is a Solution Architect at SSW in Brisbane. He's passionate about solving complex problems with clean, effective technology.

For him, DevOps is more than just a set of tools, it's a mindset that revolutionizes how we approach software development. He's been working within the Microsoft ecosystem since .NET 2.0 and has been a champion for Azure DevOps since its early days as TFPreview. His dedication to the community and technology has been recognized with the Microsoft MVP award every year since 2014.

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He's had the incredible opportunity to share his knowledge by co-authoring several books and contributing to ALM Ranger guidance documents. Today, you'll find him designing and building solutions in 
Azure, helping teams write better C#, and sharing my discoveries on my [YouTube channel](https://www.youtube.com/@gordonbeeming).
Outside of tech, he's a husband and father who loves to unwind by training for his next swim, bike, or run event.

Gold Coast Full Stack User Group - Azure + .NET + More

Fail Fast, Ship Faster: Learning to Orchestrate Instead of Implement

Gold Coast Full Stack User Group - Azure + .NET + More

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