Behind The Buzzword: Event Driven Frameworks, Docker, & Is Cloud Always The Way?

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This is our last event before Christmas, but don't worry, we have something special planned for December...

For those who haven’t joined us before, Behind The Buzzword is an event by Reed Technology designed to bring the tech community together, and offer everybody the chance to learn something new, regardless of what level you’re at. We'll be doing a 20 minute presentation from each speaker followed by a Q&A - you do not need to code along.

We're very fortunate that for this event we're being sponsored by CarFinance247 for the event. They'll be providing us with goodies including Udemy and Pluralsight licenses to give away to some lucky attendee winners.

This means that we’ll be giving away plenty of goodies to those who join us for the event!

So far our confirmed topics are the below:

Garrard Kitchen - Principal Engineer at CarFinance247: The benefits of event-driven frameworks, language features & runtimes and their abstractions

In this session, I will cover how frameworks such as NestJS and APIs such as Dapr and their abstractions can help you write less code to do more, with a renewed emphasis on business logic negating the need to create the usual glue and boilerplate code that you write time after time after time.

This session will include aspects of microservice architecture, resilience, high availability, scalability and caching, with elements of AKS, KEDA and observability.

John Cooke - Senior Software Engineer at Insight Investment: Docker: Going beyond "it works on my machine"

An overview on Docker, covering the below.

1. Some history and illustrating common issues
2. Why docker helps
3. Demo moving app into a container
4. Maybe something on orchestration need to work out timings

Lukas Jaks - IBM Z Ambassador: Is Cloud Always The Way?

Is cloud really the future? Learn why 71% of Fortune 500 companies still use Mainframes and what makes it the preferred choice and why cloud might not be suitable. This talk focuses on the use of mainframes and a look at how a mainframe works vs the cloud. Will the big iron hold up to survive the influx of cloud in this area?