Microservices, Containers, DevOps & Cloud MTL MeetUp Q4

Welcome to the Q4 edition of Microservices, Containers, DevOps & Cloud MTL Meetup.

We'll be using this session to:

• Highlight the benefits of a “continuous improvement” discipline with reference to your SDLC,
• introduce you to different tools and best practices to help increase reliability and speed of software delivery,
• feature diverse open source solutions focused around microservices integrity, security and load balancing capabilities, applicable to use cases we encounter often.

Presentation #1 - Practical Guide to Not Building Silos:
We'll show you how to approach DevOps as a discipline by continuously improving the quality of automation across the entire SDLC. We'll discuss the benefits of when automation and reliability become core tenants of every engineer in your organization, and exhibit conclusive evidence that it will improve the reliability and speed of your software delivery. You should walk away with a much better understanding of your own team’s dynamics and how they may be impacted by choices you make today. You'll come to appreciate that DevOps as a discipline, across your entire engineering organization, is where you'll see the bulk of your efforts pay off. We'll discuss statistics from many published studies over the last 3 years, as well as cover the areas of the DevOps Figure 8 where the most improvement is needed.

Kevin Crawley - Developer Evangelist at Instana
Kevin speaks internationally on topics including distributed computing, microservices, containers, monitoring, observability, tracing, logging, deployment automation, public speaking, alert fatigue and human ops. He is passionate about sharing knowledge and the experiences gained during his career as an application developer, team leader, and site reliability engineer. He has successfully implemented Docker in production utilizing ECS, Docker Swarm/EE, and Kubernetes at many organizations over the past 4 years.

Presentation #2 - Manage Microservices on Kubernetes Using the Open Source Istio Service Mesh from IBM, Google, and Lyft:
We'll explore the global value and architecture of Istio, and walk through key mechanisms for using Istio to drive highly secure microservices. We'll demonstrate the various features of Istio revealing how to effectively load balance traffic between services, conduct A/B tests, release canaries, and more.

Ram Vennam - Technical Offering Manager for IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
Ram is an Offering Manager and Developer Advocate with deep experience in the landscape of web application technology. Ram's worked in many development roles at IBM, with a current focus on IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service. Ram's interests include Cloud, Node.js/JavaScript, microservices, scalability, and performance.

Jean-Philippe Sauvageau - Technical Consultant for IBM Cloud Private
Jean-Philippe is a technical consultant advocating for transformation to Cloud approaches, modern DevOps tooling, and enterprise adoption of open source technologies, such as Kubernetes.

As always, we look forward to networking, sharing ideas and collaborating with the community. We'll be serving food and drinks for your convenience.

A huge thank you to our sponsors for supporting this event:

Opticca - www.opticca.com
SAP Hybris - https://cx.sap.com/en/
RedHat - www.redhat.com
Opticca Security - www.opticcasecurity.com