February 2017 meetup

Drinks and food are provided by Travix.

Agenda

17:30 - 18:30 Walk-in
18:00 Pizza & drinks
18:30 Using Rancher for highly available deployment services with GoCD and TeamCity
19:30 Break
20:00 Testing in a Continuous Delivery World
21:00 Wrapping up

Talks

Matthew Skelton - https://skeltonthatcher.com - Using Rancher for highly available deployment services with GoCD and TeamCity

Tools like GoCD and TeamCity are excellent components of advanced Continuous Delivery deployment systems. They help us focus on deployment pipelines and the flow of changes, rather than "builds" or "environments". We can further enhance these tools by using frameworks like Rancher to manage GoCD and TeamCity as highly available, always-on deployment services. In this talk, we'll see how to use Rancher to run deployment pipeline tooling like GoCD and TeamCity, and how this lets us focus on the important parts of Continuous Delivery: getting changes to Production safely and rapidly.

Bio: Matthew Skelton has been building, deploying, and operating commercial software systems since 1998. Co-founder and Principal Consultant at Skelton Thatcher Consulting ( http://skeltonthatcher.com/ ), he specialises in helping organisations to adopt and sustain good practices for building and operating software systems: Continuous Delivery, DevOps, aspects of ITIL, and software operability. Matthew curates the well-known DevOps team topologies patterns at devopstopologies.com and is co-author of the books Database Lifecycle Management (Redgate, 2015), Continuous Delivery with Windows and .NET (O’Reilly, 2016), and Team Guide to Software Operability (Skelton Thatcher Publications, 2016).

Matthew is the leading expert on go.cd in Europe, organizer of the London Continuous Delivery meetup ( http://londoncd.org.uk ), and organizer of the Pipeline Continuous Delivery conference ( https://web.pipelineconf.info , Tuesday 21st March 2017, London)

Wouter Lagerweij - lagerweij.com (http://www.lagerweij.com) - Testing in a Continuous Delivery World

A team that takes on the challenge to release their every commit certainly will take testing seriously. It will need to evolve new ways of testing. It will have new dynamics of testers working with developers. In this talk we’ll look at how continuous deployment changes the dynamics of an agile team. How quality moves even more to the center of the stage. How that changes the role of the tester once again. And of developers, too. How to put the customer center stage again. And how that, too, has testing competencies at its core. And we’ll not forget DevOps, and how monitoring can be a continuous testing strategy.

Bio: Wouter Lagerweij is an independent Agile Coach operating out of The Netherlands.
He loves spending time with teams and organisations to figure out how to improve the way they make software, and make it more fun. To make that happen Wouter uses the knowledge and skills gathered in twenty years of experience applying Agile processes and practices from XP, Scrum, Kanban, Lean and Systems Thinking.
To turn those improvements into real business opportunities, Wouter has added Lean Startup/Lean Enterprise approaches. He's even been known to, occasionally, use common sense.

Location, food & drinks brought to you by:

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Parking

• Piet Hein garage (Piet Heinkade 27, 1019 BL Amsterdam). It is located near the Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ and it has an exit that ends up in the Up Office Building (where Travix is located).

• The parking garage for the Mövenpick Hotel (Piet Heinkade 11, 1019 BR Amsterdam), which is more expensive. You should take the same entrance, but keep to the left for the Piet Hein garage.

• Parking Centrum Oosterdok.