DevOps Engineering with Containers to Enable Microservices

Join us in person as Rich Mills talks to us about DevOps Engineering with Containers to Enable Microservices.

Agenda:

• 6:00 pm: Networking, food and beverages, welcome from our sponsor- Steampunk
• 6:15 pm: Rich Mills- DevOps Engineering with Containers to Enable Microservices
• 7:00 pm: Q&A, general discussion

DevOps Engineering with Containers to Enable Microservices
You’re trying to follow the industry and shift from a monolithic system to a widely distributed, scalable, and highly available microservice architecture. You’ve already shifted to Agile delivery models, but your teams are struggling to keep up with the rate of change in the technologies of these systems. Your DevOps team has thrown a bunch of automation in place to help this, but it seems to be creating a bigger, different mess that results in a bunch of broken systems that never seem to work together. This microservice thing isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. To succeed, we need to properly design and implement our delivery process with the right technology stack to support our software architecture, then structure our teams around that process. We call this DevOps Engineering.

This talk is intended for Agile and DevOps practitioners who have started their journey into containers and microservices. You will gain some examples of how we have designed pipelines to both deliver containerized microservices but also use containers to make the DevOps pipeline more flexible and easier to support. Rich will show you some patterns of how you can package and integrate your tests with your microservices to enable you to more easily run the right tests at the right time during delivery. And he’ll talk about some factors to consider when organizing your teams and hiring/training the right skills to be successful.

About Rich Mills (Twitter: @armillz)
Richard Mills has more than 25 years of experience in software engineering with a concentration on pragmatic software process and tools. Rich has a specific focus in Agile development methods and is passionate about DevOps, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Delivery. Rich is dedicated to helping customers build software better, faster, and more securely by coaching and mentoring in agile development methodologies, automating software delivery (builds, tests, and deployments) and integrating strong security measures into development practices. He has spent his career working in the areas of static and dynamic software analysis tools, configuration management, and automated software delivery. Rich is an alumnus of Bucknell University where he earned a BSEG in Computer Engineering.