Cape Town MS Developer User Group (@CPTMSDUG)

Accso is in Suite 302 in the Clock Tower building. Nearest parking is in the Clock Tower parking.

This event is 17:30 for 18:15. The session content will start promptly at 18:15 PM. Attendees are welcome to arrive earlier for networking and snacks!

Agenda

Community Intro and Welcoming

18:15 - Community Intro and Welcoming

18:20 - MAYDAY! Monkeys on the loose in Production!

A mischievous primate let loose in your production environment, gleefully creating chaos to test your system's resilience. Its job? To find out if your application can handle unexpected disruptions, from random instance terminations to network outages.

How to Use It Correctly:

1. Prepare for Mayhem: Start in a staging environment. Only a brave soul would unleash Chaos Monkey straight into production!

2. Define Your Chaos: Specify the types of faults you want to inject. Will it be a server crash, a latency spike, or an entire availability zone going down?

3. Monitor Like a Hawk: Keep a close eye on your systems. Log everything. You’ll want to know exactly what that monkey's up to.

4. Analyze and Adapt: Use the results to strengthen your system’s resilience. Patch the holes that Chaos Monkey finds.

5. Gradually Escalate: Increase the scope of the chaos over time, moving towards production as your confidence grows.

Unleash the chaos, learn from the mayhem, and emerge with a battle-hardened, resilient system. Just remember, the monkey might be cheeky, but it's there to make your system stronger! 🐒💥

Speaker: Hennie Francis

19:00 From Zero to Agent : Building an AI Agent with LangChain

In an era of information overload, we need more than chatbots — we need intelligent agents that can ingest, reason, and respond over unstructured data.

In this session we will learn how to create a powerful, customisable AI agent built using LangChain and LangGraph that transforms PDF documents into dynamic, conversational knowledge bases.

Speaker: Lemi Masalu

20:00 - Closing and SWAGS exchange