Make or Break It - Software Engineering/SRE Deep Dives

Our Slack workspace is now open - please join once you have RSVP'd!

Only 9% of people in SRE-related or senior software engineering roles are women. We think that's got to change!

Many women in tech sessions focus on soft skills management, but few create a space where women can interact with other women on engineering subject matters.

That's why we want to deliver women and engineering-led workshops that provide a series of deep dives in software deployment and production engineering, which form part of the foundations for SRE and senior software engineering.

The event will be fully remote, with all communications centralised via an event Slack workspace. All break out rooms, parallel events and call links will be communicated through there.

Agenda (in GMT)

• 09:00 -> 09:30 -- Intros and lightning talks
  We'll be warming up with some lightning talks from experienced software engineers around interesting production issues and how their teams are solving it. The speakers will include (stay tuned for talk titles): Vitalina Clarke, Mai Lubega and Imogen Muir
• 09:30 -> 10:45 -- Managing Infrastructure Resources (Natasha Stokes)
  We'll start the deep dives with a talk on how to manage infrastructure resources from the perspective of an early stage application that's growing to require multiple engineering effort. We'll be answering questions around how to make decisions on choosing a hosting provider and maintaining your infrastructure with code.
• 10:45 -> 11:00 -- Screen Break
  Speaker and attendee screen break
• 11:00 -> 12:15 -- Cue the Queue: Event Driven Systems (Berni Varga)
  Continuing on the theme of scaling applications, we'll be walking through how to grow a system to make use of a queue from the perspective of the same application introduced in the Managing Infrastructure Resources deep dive. This time, we'll be looking at transforming the application to address increased customer demand.
• 12:15 -> 13:15 -- Lunch Break
  Speaker and attendee lunch break :)
• 13:15 -> 14:30 -- 2x Developer Efficiency & Platform Enhancement Rolodox
  We'll break off with a set of 2 deep dives centred on how to improve your developer efficiency and platform scaling. These deep dives will take place at the same time, so make sure you've thought about which one you would like to attend! The subjects will include: How to Inspect Network Traffic (Szymon Czynszak) and Building Production Systems with AWS (Diana Alvarado)