March 2021 Meetup

Join us for an evening of great discussions.

What's the plan?:
18:00 - Welcome and run through the agenda
18:10 - Talk by Gavin Campbell
18:40 - Q&A with Gavin
19:00 - Open Space
19:30 - Retro and Good Bye

Talk: 'Delivering Data Platforms' by Gavin Campbell

In recent years, we have learned a great deal about delivering application code and infrastructure as code. However, delivering those aspects of our products that relate to data and databases has often turned out to be a slightly more complicated problem. This talk will attempt to address a few common questions that arise in data platform delivery, such as:

• Who is responsible for the database anyway? And what about the data in the database?

• Are databases applications or infrastructure?

• What about "NoSQL" databases?

• Has "the cloud" solved all of these problems?

• What about testing?

We'll try to steer clear of too much product-specific detail, whilst attempting to strike a balance between the latest buzzword technologies and the relational databases we all have buried at the back of the data centre.

Gavin is a consultant currently working to improve delivery practices in Data Engineering teams.