May 2019 meetup

Agenda:
17:30 - 18:30 Walk-in
18:00 Food (incl. vegan) & drinks
18:30 Transitioning to teams being end-to-end responsible for their software
19:30 Break
20:00 Platform as a Product - transforming from service delivery into continuous operations
21:30 Wrapping up

Location, food & drinks brought to you by: Xebia

Talks:
#1 - Anna Shepeleva & Erik Swets - De Bijenkorf & Xebia - Transitioning to teams being end-to-end responsible for their software

At De Bijenkorf, we started transitioning our organization to adopt Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) about 1 year ago. With trial and error, we went from having a third-party company monitor and manage our production systems, to teams being end-to-end responsible for the software they write and deploy.

In this talk we want to share our learnings from this transition. How did we get our teams to care about what they release? How did we deal with all the inevitable knowledge gaps? And how do you keep up with the rapid evolution of the cloud space? We will share our goals, how we approached this problem, the things that were a success and that failed, and the things we'd like to try moving forward.

Bio's:
Anna Shepeleva @ de Bijenkorf; Having worked at de Bijenkorf for several years, Anna has had the opportunity to see a small team of 5 developers grow to a powerhouse of 30. Working with an ever evolving team, she has picked up various skills and has been able to overhaul the company's automated testing strategies. From here Anna has seized new challenges within a team now spearheading de Bijenkorf's CI/CD efforts - tasked with migrating current services to Kubernetes.

Erik Swets @ Xebia; Throughout his career, Erik has helped companies to deliver software faster and at higher quality. Be it through applying practices like Behaviour Driven Development or Continuous Delivery, by architecting and implementing automated testing solutions or by building deployment automation solutions. With a background in economics, he is able to strike a good balance between business and IT.

#2 - Michael Coté - Pivotal - Platform as a Product - transforming from service delivery into continuous operations

Most ops groups can’t give developers what they need. Ops is limited by traditional service delivery mindset and tools. Stability & reliability are now table-stakes when you’re releasing software daily. What developers need now from ops is innovation. Operations has rarely takes this innovation-driven, product approach to providing services, & instead focuses on delivering to specification & limiting SLAs. As with development, ops creates value with continuous operations, product managing their platforms and releasing frequently.

This talk covers how ops groups are transforming from a service delivery mindset a platform-as-a-product approach. With examples from Discover Financial Services, Rabobank, the US Air Force, & others the talk covers the concept, technologies & tools commonly used, & ops tactics needed to kick-off a platform-as-a-product strategy.

Bio:
Michael Coté works at Pivotal on the advocate team. He’s been an industry analyst at RedMonk and 451 Research, worked in corporate strategy and M&A at Dell in software and cloud, and was a programmer for a decade before all that. He does several weekly (mostly) tech podcasts, writes a column on Agile & DevOps for The Register, blogs at Cote.io, and is @cote in Twitter.

Parking:
Q park centrum oost, wibautstraat 3