Google Cloud Developers North - Manchester Edition

We are back with a GCP North Developers Meet-up on Tuesday 10th of September from 6 pm at Lloyds Banking Group's Manchester offices!

We are currently lining up some great speakers and topics for you but this event will also be about meeting fellow GCP devs in the North. If you have a great story to tell please let us know, this is everyone's event.

Date: Tuesday 10th of September

Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm

Location: Westminster House, 11 Portland Street, Manchester, M1 3HU

Agenda:

6:00 - 6:15pm: Welcome, Drinks, and Food

6:15 - 6:35pm - Enhancing ChatBots with Business Data through Gemini AI's Function Calling Capability - Chima Nwadike CTO @ Spaece

6:35 - 6:55pm - Crawl, Walk, Cloud Run - Paul Gledhill Serverless Engineering Lead @ Lloyds Banking Group

An in-depth session on Google Cloud Run, Google's cutting-edge Container-as-a-Service (CaaS) offering. We will begin by comparing Cloud Run with Cloud Functions, highlighting key differences and use cases. Next, we'll explore Cloud Run's performance across various programming languages and discuss best practices for optimizing configuration to maximize efficiency. Finally, we'll dig into cost considerations, comparing Cloud Run with Google’s managed Kubernetes service, and provide tips on managing expenses to ensure cost-effectiveness. This session is perfect for developers and architects looking to harness the power of serverless containers without breaking the bank.

6:55 - 7:15pm: TBC

7.15 - 7:35pm: TBC

7:35 - 8:00pm: Networking over Drinks and Food

Please share this event with colleagues - food and drinks will be provided.

Agenda

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Hosted By

Nic Ellis, Events Operation Lead

Alistair Grew, Lead Customer Engineer

Rafee Jenkins, GDG Organiser

Complete your event RSVP here: https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-cloud-north-west-presents-google-cloud-developers-north-manchester-edition/.