Tech Meetup Glasgow - July 2024
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Join us at Civic House, Glasgow on the first Thursday of each month for our free event featuring two talks on tech with soft drinks and pizza.
June's talks:
✨ Speaker 1: Chris Brown
HTMX: Completing HTML as a hypertext
While HTML is the foundation block of the web, we're often trying to work around its limitations. Discover an alternate approach with this intro to HTMX, an attempt at making HTML feature-complete.
✨ Speaker 2: Eric D. Schabell
Observability for You and Me with OpenTelemetry
Are you interested in dipping your toes in the cloud native observability waters, but as an engineer you are not sure where to get started with tracing problems through your microservices and application landscapes on Kubernetes?
In this session we take you on your first steps in an active open-source project that offers a buffet of languages, challenges, and opportunities for getting started with telemetry data.
The project is called OpenTelemetry, but before diving into the specifics, we’ll start with de-mystifying key concepts and terms such as observability, telemetry, instrumentation, cardinality, percentile to lay a foundation.
After understanding the nuts and bolts of observability and distributed traces, we’ll explore the OpenTelemetry community; its Special Interest Groups (SIGs), repositories, and how to become not only an end-user, but possibly a contributor.
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All are welcome and there is no requirement to have any level of tech knowledge or experience to attend, just a desire to learn. Come along (bring your friends), network and learn something new with us!
To make Glasgow's Tech Meetup welcoming for people joining for the first time we implement the PacMan Rule.
The rule is:
“When standing as a group of people, always leave room for 1 person to join your group.”
More memorably, stand like Pac-Man! You can learn more about this here.
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📣 Agenda
- 18:00 - 18:30, Drinks and Pizza
- 18:30 - 18:45, Opening
- 18:45 - 19:15, Talk 1
- 19:15 - 19:30, Break
- 19:30 - 20:00, Talk 2
- 20:00 - 20:15, Closing
- 20:15, Drinks
Lastly, Tech Meetup couldn’t be brought to you without our awesome sponsors, so a huge thank you to:
We look forward to seeing you all soon.
😎 Meantime, you could follow us for the latest event updates on LinkedIn!
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😊 FAQ
Who should attend?
Tech Meetup is a generalist event for everyone in the Glasgow tech community. We welcome people with all levels of experience . Even if you are starting your journey into tech as a student or bootcamper or your thinking of starting your development career, you are more than welcome.
Why should I come?
As well as learning from your peers at our talks, you get to meet other developers and expand your network, and we also share what is going on in the wider Glasgow developer community. If you are still not sold, we have free drinks and pizza!
Who are the organisers?
Tech Meetup is run by a handful of organisers that work in the industry and have varied experience across the board, of which you can find them on LinkedIn:
- Keith Harrison
- Stephen Hill
- Joel Q Yu
- Rachel McFarlane
- James Boag
If you're interested in volunteering to be part of the organisation of this awesome meetup, speak to one of us at the event and we'll set you up in our group for organising.
I would like to speak at Tech Meetup
If you would like to give a talk please get in touch:
- keithharrisonuk@yahoo.co.uk
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/keithdharrison/
- https://twitter.com/keithdhar
I'd like to do a talk but I've not given one before
No previous speaking experience is required and we really encourage new speaker. In fact lots of people have given their first talk at Tech Meetup. We'll give you all the help and support you need to do your first talk.
Is the venue accessible?
Yes. Our event is held at Civic House. The main entrance has a small number of steps but there is a fully accessible entrance next to the main one. Just buzz and someone will let you in. You can find more information here or contact with any questions: https://agile-city.com/building/civic-house/
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🔔 Stay updated by following us on LinkedIn for the most recent event news!
ℹ️ You can also check out our Linktree for related websites and information on our sponsors: https://linktr.ee/techmeetupglasgow
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Tech Meetup Glasgow - July 2024