Name: Highlights from the Cloud Foundry Summits of 2015
Start: 2016-02-11T18:30:00Z
End: 2016-02-11T21:30:00Z
Location: Pivotal Labs

We've invited speakers who presented at all 3 Cloud Foundry Summits of 2015 (Santa Clara in May, Berlin in November and Shanghai in December) to present the "Highlights of the CF Summits". The event will start at 6.30pm with food and drink on arrival, and presentations will begin at 7pm.

• "Opening Remarks" from Colin Humphreys - LOPUG Organiser / Event Host (delivered 3 talks at CF Summit Santa Clara, May 2015)

• "Can You Trust Cloud Foundry to Save a Life? To Save 10,000?" - Ben Dodd, Co-Founder, Armakuni (delivered at CF Summit Europe, November 2015)

The brief: "Never be limited by technology". The result: They haven’t.

Comic Relief, a UK-based charity, runs the wildly successful brand Red Nose Day; It consists of 7 hours of primetime live TV, generating in the region of 26 million viewers on BBC 1. Last year their total fundraised was over a billion UK pounds (£1,047,083,706).

Since 2012, Armakuni has been using Cloud Foundry to deliver the global payments platform that handles the credit card transactions generated through web and call centre traffic. It’s built to handle up to 400 payments per second, 800,000 in total through the night.

Cloud Foundry is key not only to the development practices that enable the success of the platform through automated testing and continuous delivery, but vitally the scalability and resiliency models that deliver confidence in a solution where feedback cycles are a luxury we just don’t have.

• "From Weeks to Minutes...For Real!" - Simon Johansson, Platform Engineer and Daniel Otte, Head of Platform Engineering, Springer Nature (delivered at CF Summit Europe, November 2015)

Going from weeks to minutes for app deployments. 0 to 700 r/s and 0 to 800 apps in a year.

Springer dev teams are globally distributed and there was no standardisation. From commit to production was often more than 2 weeks. Provisioning new VMs, configuring networking, firewalls, load balancing, writing Chef; was a tedious task that nobody wanted to deal with. Tribal knowledge resulted in flaky systems resulting in dev teams becoming dependent on different Ops teams.

When Platform Engineering started to hear the faint whispers, “miiiiicro services”, we knew we needed to do something drastic. This talk is about how Cloud Foundry changed the culture, allowing devs to own their apps in production and care less about operational hassles. And how Platform Engineering simplified operations and reduced costs across the board.

• "Deciphering the Buzzword Bingo" - Abby Kearns, Product Manager, Pivotal Cloud Foundry (delivered at CF Summit Asia, December 2015)

In a world drowning in terminology, how do we make sense of the current trends in IT: XaaS, Cloud Native, Micro Services, Containers, Agile, Continuous Delivery, Platforms, Abstraction, Dev Ops, IoT, Reactive Programming?... What do they all mean? How should we consume them?

This talks reviews recent IT trends and how Platforms like Cloud Foundry instigate change, both technically, and more importantly, organisationally. For example, how do you structure your teams, how does Cloud Foundry help with continuous Delivery? The essence of Cloud Foundry is not what it is, or even what it can do, it is about what it can do for you. That's what this talk will unpack.

Looking forward to seeing you there,

The LOPUG team.

Paula Kennedy

Colin Humphreys

London Platform User Group (LOPUG)

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