LOPUG Meetup on Thursday 21st May, 6.30pm onwards

The theme for May’s meetup is IBM Bluemix and, as usual, we've got some great speakers as well as beer, pizza and fun.

For this event we've got 2 presentations:

• Dominic Harries, Bluemixologist @ IBM Bluemix Garage

IBM Bluemix - The tl;dr"

IBM's Bluemix PaaS is nearly one year old. Dominic will be talking about what makes it unique and some of the services that are available - including Watson.

Dominic will also cover the support that Bluemix has for Docker and Softlayer VMs, as well as the other developer tools that IBM has integrated.

• Gerhard Lazu, Senior Engineer @ CloudCredo

IBM Bluemix - The What & How Game

As Extreme Programming professionals, we value the distinction between "What to do next?", a project manager concern, and "How to do it?", an engineering concern.

Bluemix, through its extensive service offering and first-class Cloud Foundry, Containers and VM support, enables software engineers to deliver constant business value, quickly.

This talk is about real-world "What to do next?" examples and how we've solved them in the Bluemix Garage.

If you'd like to try Bluemix for yourself, register here (https://apps.admin.ibmcloud.com/manage/trial/bluemix.html?cm_mmc=IBMUKIDeveloperMarketing--LoPUG--05-12-15::30-12-15-_-LoPUGmeetupage) for a free Bluemix Trial!

So if you're interested in hearing from people who are implementing, using and delivering PaaS today then we hope you can make it.

Hope to see you there,

The LOPUG team.

• Beer and pizza
• Good time will be had by all