Leeds DevOps

Our first speaker is Sam Williams, Sam has been in the IT industry for nearly 15 years. Having qualified in the pharmacy industry his career has been tightly coupled with healthcare. He has worked primarily on the operational side of IT, for the last 7 years providing technical solutions for delivering large enterprise applications to NHS organisations for EMIS Health. Today he focuses on how they can deliver faster and to more complex environments.

Sam will walk you through how EMIS are exploring and adopting a hybrid on-prem-cloud solution along with the Hashicorp toolset, to provide more efficient DevTest environments for some of their monolithic applications in a very traditional Microsoft stack software house.

Our second talk is from Nicolas Corrarello of Hashicorp. He says "The times, they are a changing. Generalised splat operators, GRPC, for loops. Join me on a quick tour of the new features of Terraform 0.12”

Nicolas Corrarello's background includes 6+ years of Unix and Windows Server system administration roles, managing AIX/Solaris/Linux and different versions of Windows Server (2000 AS and above) systems in different companies. Nicolas also worked two years as a support engineer and instructor/examiner for Red Hat delivering RHCE/RHCA courses. As an open source enthusiast, he has more IT in his house than appliances. While he spent years doing things manually, he’s now a firm believer that the IT practice needs to evolve and rise to the challenges of current times. He's currently the Regional Director for Hashicorp’s Solutions Engineering team in Europe.

Once again we say a massive "Thank You" to Infinity Works for sponsoring the refreshments and lodgings for the evening, ensuring there are plenty of our favourite refreshments and soft drinks in supply.

Venue

The ODI Node Leeds is situated at Munro House, on Duke Street. If you want to find out more about the ODI details can be found at http://theodi.org/nodes/leeds

Code Of Conduct

Please note that we have now added an anti-harassment policy and code of conduct in order to support the inclusive nature of the meetup. All attendees, speakers, sponsors and volunteers at any LeedsDevops event are required to agree with the code of conduct.

Tickets Tickets are free and are available over on eventbrite or meetup.com

Our first talk is from Simon Thurman who is a Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft, he'll be showcasing Microsoft's latest toolchain, covering the components of the system such as pipelines, test plans, artifact repos, boards and more. Simon will demonstrate the steps involved and interactions as code moves from commit to production in Azure Devops.

Our headline speaker is Simon Westcott a hands-on architect with 10+ yrs experience of building high traffic websites. In late 2016 Simon moved into the world of platform engineering to help re-imagine Sky Betting & Gaming's delivery approach and drive operational efficiency. Delivery agility is key to Simon and his Team's success. As their engineering team grows, they have an increasing number of greenfield products to comission, as well as monolithic applications to decompose into microservices. To manage this they need a platform that can keep pace, both in the cloud and on-premise. Simon will explore with you why they choose Kubernetes, how they're adapting both on AWS and on-premise and the challenges they faced.

As an extra treat we'll also be giving away 2 tickets for the upcoming DevOpsDays Edinburgh conference on the 1st and 2nd of November.

Once again we say a massive "Thank You" to Infinity Works for sponsoring the refreshments and lodgings for the evening, ensuring there are plenty of our favourite refreshments and soft drinks in supply.

Venue The ODI Node Leeds is situated at Munro House, on Duke Street. If you want to find out more about the ODI details can be found at http://theodi.org/nodes/leeds

Code Of Conduct Please note that we have now added an anti harassment policy and code of conduct in order to support the inclusive nature of the meetup. All attendees, speakers, sponsors and volunteers at any LeedsDevops event are required to agree with the code of conduct.

Tickets Tickets are free and are available over on eventbrite or meetup.com

Our first speaker is Neil Crawford who is head of technology at Findmypast after serving as software architect and technical lead. He made his start in games programming but found his passion for web development working on Lives of the First World War. He blogs on the Findmypast tech blog and is an active member of the local JavaScript meetup in Dundee, Scotland.

His talk discusses why a True North is an impossible vision of perfect operations. It is a set of guiding principles that deliver direction and clarity in decision making. Direction and clarity are essential to solving your biggest problems. A True North aligns everyone towards your perfect vision of operations."

Our second talk is from Indy Bains and Doug Thomson of Capgemini and is entitled "Hyper Cloud, Hyper Scale, Hyper V". It covers a demonstration on how Terraform can be utilised to build a globally dispersed multi-OS container platform, spanning numerous cloud providers.

Indy is a highly experienced platform architect, software engineer, RedHat 7 Certified System Administrator and AWS Certified Solution Architect with over a decade of delivery experience on UNIX/Linux platforms on large-scale enterprise projects. He specialises in creating continuous delivery and deployment environments, and implementing infrastructure-as-code.

Doug is a Platform Automation Engineer with over 17 years experience working on large scale Enterprise services in the Public Sector. Main interests include AWS, open source tooling, Platform Automation and culture/organisation­al change. Doug is also co-organiser of the Birmingham Digital and DevOps Meetup.

Once again we say a massive "Thank You" to Infinity Works for sponsoring the refreshments and lodgings for the evening, ensuring there are plenty of our favourite refreshments and soft drinks in supply.

Venue

Platform is located a above Leeds Rail Station and we're way up on the 10th floor, please sign in at reception when you arrive.

Code Of Conduct

Please note that we have now added an anti harassment policy and code of conduct in order to support the inclusive nature of the meetup. All attendees, speakers, sponsors and volunteers at any LeedsDevops event are required to agree with the code of conduct.

Tickets

Tickets are free and are available over on eventbrite or meetup.com

Our first speaker is Richard Rose who is a lead platform engineer with over 20 years of experience working on complex infrastructure and software architecture. As a founder of the Leeds Google Developer Group, he is very interested in all form of technology, especially Cloud and Android. In his spare time, he loves to read and experiment with different technologies. You can find him on Twitter as @coder_rosey as he is more generally loving the holy trinity of beer, films and coding.

Richard’s talk is an introduction to Google Cloud Platform and discusses the highs and lows of working in a Google-centric universe versus the more well-publicised market competitors. Depending on your perspective (developer or operations) you may be surprised by the approach taken by Google and also at the range of packages on offer within this environment. The talk will cover the primary components of using the platform and offer some advice on getting started, general architecture patterns and where to go when it all goes wrong ;-)

Speaking of stuff which breaks. It’s one of the basic fundamentals of IT, but there are some things you expect to just work. But what happens when these things decide to let you down, especially when part of a large distributed system?

Our second talk is from Ed Hiley and Dan Rathbone who offer an overview of the technical renaissance going on in parts of the NHS, where things are being done in a modern way. Ed and Dan explore a recently launched data processing system that utilizes Apache Spark, Riak, and Python and discuss the events they encountered along the way where things they took for granted just stopped doing the things they expected. Ed and Dan dive into some of these events to debunk the assumptions they made and explain how they troubleshot and fixed the issues.

Edward Hiley is a principal systems engineer with NHS Digital, where he has worked on national services such as SUS+, a ground-up full replacement of the current Secondary Uses Service (SUS), which involves myriad challenges, including immutable infrastructure, disputed compute clusters, and multi-data-center deployments. Previously, Edward was a solution architect for the Health and Social Care Information Centre and an associate director for the National Institute for Health and Clinical excellence.

Dan Rathbone is cofounder and technical director of Infinity Works, a 200-strong consultancy and software house based out of Leeds and London, where he builds and operates high-scale and high-performance systems for Infinity Works’ clients. Most recently, Dan has been working with NHS Digital to drive the modernization of critical national services, reengineering them using FOSS, end-to-end DevOps teams, and Agile and Lean delivery techniques. Over his career, Dan has held a number of varied roles focusing on areas from infrastructure to frontend development and most things in between.

Once again we say a massive "Thank You" to Infinity Works for sponsoring the refreshments and lodgings for the evening, ensuring there are plenty of our favourite refreshments and soft drinks in supply.

Venue

The ODI Node Leeds is situated at Munro House, on Duke Street. If you want to find out more about the ODI details can be found at http://theodi.org/nodes/leeds

Code Of Conduct

Please note that we have now added an anti harassment policy and code of conduct in order to support the inclusive nature of the meetup. All attendees, speakers, sponsors and volunteers at any LeedsDevops event are required to agree with the code of conduct.

Tickets

Tickets are free and are available over on eventbrite or meetup.com

For those of you who squeezed into the ODI for our February meetup you will have heard from William Hill about their use of Kafka, we've invited Robin Moffat from Confluent to come and give us a deep dive in all things Kafka and streaming data.

Robin is a Partner Technology Evangelist at Confluent, the company founded by the creators of Apache Kafka, as well as an Oracle ACE Director and Developer Champion. His career has always involved data, from the old worlds of COBOL and DB2, through the worlds of Oracle and Hadoop, and into the current world with Kafka. His particular interests are analytics, systems architecture, performance testing and optimization. He blogs at https://www.confluent.io/blog/author/robin/ and http://rmoff.net/ (and previously http://ritt.md/rmoff) and can be found tweeting grumpy geek thoughts as @rmoff. Outside of work he enjoys drinking good beer and eating fried breakfasts, although generally not at the same time.

Robin's talk us "Look Ma, no Code! Building Streaming Data Pipelines with Apache Kafka and KSQL" - Have you ever thought that you needed to be a programmer to do stream processing and build streaming data pipelines? Think again! Companies new and old are all recognising the importance of a low-latency, scalable, fault-tolerant data backbone, in the form of the Apache Kafka streaming platform. With Kafka, developers can integrate multiple sources and systems, which enables low latency analytics, event driven architectures and the population of multiple downstream systems. These data pipelines can be built using configuration alone. In this talk, we'll see how easy it is to stream data from a database such as MySQL into Kafka using the Kafka Connect API. In addition, we'll use KSQL to filter, aggregate and join it to other data, and then stream this from Kafka out into multiple targets such as Elasticsearch and MySQL. All of this can be accomplished without a single line of code!

Our second talk of the evening is from Phil Cornelius who is an Ansible Specialist for EMEA. He joined Red Hat in 2016 from Credit Suisse where he was responsible for the developer tools and services for 3000 applications, developed by 8000 developers globally. Phil's background is primarily application development, specifically Enterprise Java. Phil brings over 18 years of experience in what is now commonly called DevOps.

As you introduce Ansible into your organisation there are additional requirements to make running Ansible ‘Enterprise Grade’. This session is a live demo of some of key use cases for Ansible in the Enterprise. You will get to see Ansible Tower with a specific focus on Application Lifecycle Management.

We are again delighted to have Infinity Works sponsor the refreshments and lodgings for the evening, ensuring there are plenty of our favourite refreshments and soft drinks in supply.

Venue

The ODI Node Leeds is situated at Munro House, on Duke Street. If you want to find out more about the ODI details can be found at http://theodi.org/nodes/leeds

Code Of Conduct

Please note that we have now added an anti harassment policy and code of conduct in order to support the inclusive nature of the meetup. All attendees, speakers, sponsors and volunteers at any LeedsDevops event are required to agree with the code of conduct.

Tickets

Tickets are free and are available over on eventbrite or meetup.com

We are delighted to welcome back Claire Agutter for our first talk entitled "VeriSM - making sense of digital transformation". Claire is a service management trainer, consultant and author. In 2017 she was recognised as an HDI Top 25 Thought Leader and was part of the team that won itSMF UK’s thought leadership award. Claire is the host of the popular ITSM Crowd hangouts, and Chief Architect for VeriSM.

In the last 5 years, the world of IT has exploded with buzzwords, new ways of working, and the ever present demands to do more with less. Digital transformation is the latest phrase, but what does it actually mean? Claire is going to talk about the changes that are needed at the personal and organisational level for digital transformation to actually deliver results, and how the VeriSM approach has been written to help.

Or second speaker is Bob Walker, Bob is one of the organising team behind DevopsDay London and claims to have been doing devops since before it was called devops and has been doing on call longer than that. bob is currently working at dxw as System Operations Engineer but has been the Supreme Ruler of the YAML engineers at the UK Government Digital Service and has only recently stopped being on call for GOV.UK.

Bob’s talk is "Questions you should ask at your "DevOps" interview" - Ever wondered how best to respond when an interviewer asks if you have any questions? Drawing on his experience from both sides of the table, bob offers some suggestions for questions which will not only make you look well-prepared but also help you decide whether you want to work there.

We are again grateful to have Infinity Works sponsor the refreshments and lodgings for the evening, ensuring there are plenty of our favourite refreshments and soft drinks in supply.

Venue

The ODI Node Leeds is situated at Munro House, on Duke Street. If you want to find out more about the ODI details can be found at http://theodi.org/nodes/leeds

Code Of Conduct

Please note that we have now added an anti harassment policy and code of conduct in order to support the inclusive nature of the meetup. All attendees, speakers, sponsors and volunteers at any LeedsDevops event are required to agree with the code of conduct.

Tickets

Tickets are free and are available over on eventbrite or meetup.com

First up we have from Leeds, Ben Abramson and Robert Knowles of William Hill. They will be talking about their experiences of building a Low-Latency, High-Throughput Pipelines with Kafka from Scratch. Covering the story of what they built, what went well, what didn’t go so well and what they learnt. This is a story of how a team of developers learnt (and are still learning) how to use Kafka. They hope that you will be able to take away lessons and learnings of how to build a data processing pipeline with Apache Kafka.

Then we are joined by Dan Finneran a Solutions Architect at Docker, Dan describes himself as someone who spent "Thirteen years of breaking and fixing IT Infrastructure (but mainly breaking) that led to the realisation that there have to be better ways of doing things. This talk will cover the how's and why's of the Docker Engine, orchestrating your container environment and some of the tools in the Moby Project that can provide immutable and scalable infrastructure", So wether you are completely new to container technology or an old hand there will be something for you to take away.

We are again grateful to have Infinity Works sponsor the refreshments and lodgings for the evening, ensuring there are plenty of our favourite refreshments and soft drinks in supply.

Venue

The ODI Node Leeds is situated at Munro House, on Duke Street. If you want to find out more about the ODI details can be found at http://theodi.org/nodes/leeds

Code Of Conduct

Please note that we have now added an anti harassment policy and code of conduct in order to support the inclusive nature of the meetup. All attendees, speakers, sponsors and volunteers at any LeedsDevops event are required to agree with the code of conduct.

Tickets

Tickets are free and are available over on eventbrite or meetup.com

We are delighted that Microsoft’s Marcus Robinson will be joining us again, Marcus wowed the crowd last year with his Azure demo packed talk, but this time he returns to talk about something very different.

His talk is entitled "How We Use Value Stream Mapping to Identify Where to Focus to Achieve Maximum Impact". Creating a software development Value Stream Map is an exercise to identify delays caused by people, processes and tools. Over the past 12 months Marcus has been running DevOps focused "hackfests" with customers. Prior to each event we meet to create a Value Stream Map of the software development processes. In addition to improving understanding of the existing state the exercise enables opportunities for improvement to be identified.

During the session Marcus will describe Value Stream Mapping and the process carried out. Looking at a number of real world case studies and discuss some of the more interesting areas of waste that had been identified.

Hannah Foxwell describes herself as a long time member of London’s DevOps community, organiser of the HumanOps MeetUp, DevOpsDays London committee member. Wannabe adventurer, climber of mountains, HumanOps champion, HugOps evangelist, recovering DevOps consultant and craft beer nerd.

Building resilient systems is what we do and we do it well, but how much time do we spend working on our own personal resilience? In the ever changing world of technology, how do we ensure we are flexible, adaptable and resilient in the face of challenges and setbacks?

In this talk we’ll look at ways in which we can improve the resilience of our organisations, our teams and ourselves. Because if your team isn’t ready for change, your platform isn’t either.

Once again our friends Infinity Works have agreed to sponsor the refreshments and lodgings for the evening, ensuring there is a plentiful supply of our favorite beverages, soft drinks and as it's Halloween a bumper supply of sweets!

Venue

The ODI Node Leeds is situated at Munro House, on Duke Street. If you want to find out more about the ODI details can be found at http://theodi.org/nodes/leeds

Code Of Conduct

Please note that we have now added an anti harassment policy and code of conduct in order to support the inclusive nature of the meetup.

Tickets

Tickets are free and are available over on eventbrite or meetup.com

We are delighted to welcome Bernard Jauregui from BJSS, this talk is about Bernard's time as a test lead, focusing on minimising platform overheads. He takes the discussion beyond the obvious concerns of cost; looking at risk, motivation and solution longevity. A well architected cloud solution can meet demand with elasticity, hear about getting a robust approach to right-sizing, potential pitfalls and cloud specific complications. The talk highlights some key considerations:

   Metrics for elastic architectures

   Risks and rewards

   Weird outcomes and gotchas

   Effective refactoring of infrastructure as code

Our headline speaker for the evening is Matt Jarvis is a developer advocate at Mesosphere, his job is to engage with the communities around DC/OS and Mesos. Matt has spent more than 15 years building products and services around open source software, on everything from embedded devices to large scale distributed systems. Most recently he has been focused on the open cloud infrastructure space, and in emerging patterns for cloud native applications. His talk Mesosphere 101 showcases the Apache Mesos project as a distributed system for running other distributed systems, often described as a distributed kernel. It's in use at massive scale at some of the worlds largest companies like Apple, Netflix, Uber and Yelp. DC/OS is an open source distribution of Mesos, which adds all the functionality to run Mesos in production across any substrate, both on-premise and in the cloud. In this talk, he'll introduce both Mesos and DC/OS and talk about how they work under the hood, and what the benefits are of running these new kinds of systems for emerging workloads.

As it's our 4th birthday bash and Halloween we thought we'd introduce a little trick or treat fun - we're going to have a prize giveaway for the best Halloween costume, so turn up in your best spooky outfit and the best one will win a small but perfectly formed Raspberry Pi Zero! No one leaves LeedsDevops empty handed so we have commissioned a set of beautifully crafted artisan LeedsDevops stickers, all attendees may take one home and decorate their laptops as they see fit. Once again Infinity Works have agreed to sponsor the refreshments and lodgings for the evening, ensuring there is a plentiful supply of our favorite beverages, soft drinks and as it's Halloween a bumper supply of sweets!

Venue The ODI Node Leeds is situated at Munro House, on Duke Street. If you want to find out more about the ODI details can be found at http://theodi.org/nodes/leeds

Code Of Conduct

Please note that we have now added an anti harassment policy and code of conduct in order to support the inclusive nature of the meetup.

Tickets

Tickets are free and are available over on eventbrite or meetup.com

Our first speaker is Bryan Boreham the Director of Engineering at Weaveworks, an Open Source technology company whose mission is to make developers successful with Docker. Tonight he's sharing an "Introduction to Kubernetes Pod and Service Networking" - Kubernetes has two simple but powerful network concepts: every Pod is connected to the same network, and Services let you talk to a Pod by name. Bryan will take you through how these concepts are implemented - Pod Networks via the Container Network Interface (CNI), Service Discovery via kube-dns and Service virtual IPs, then on to how Services are exposed to the rest of the world.

Closing the evening is Matthew Clark who leads the architecture for many of the BBC’s websites and apps. He’s overseen the design and operation of some of the BBC’s biggest online events, including the Olympic Games and UK elections. He lives in Manchester, England. His talk is entitled "Watch out! The nanoservices are coming" - Welcome to the world of nanoservices: smaller than a microservice, bigger than a function, they are the perfect unit of software. Nanoservices are flexible, manageable and scalable, and a great way to do serverless computing. This is the story of how to get nanoservices right, from the BBC, who now have over a thousand in production.

Once again Infinity Works have agreed to sponsor the refreshments and lodgings for the evening, ensuring there is a plentiful supply of our favourite beverages and soft drinks.

Venue

The ODI Node Leeds is situated at Munro House, on Duke Street. If you want to find out more about the ODI details can be found at http://theodi.org/nodes/leeds

Code Of Conduct

Please note that we have now added an anti harassment policy and code of conduct in order to support the inclusive nature of the meetup.

Tickets

Tickets are free and are available over on eventbrite or meetup.com

ANTI HARASSMENT POLICY LeedsDevops is dedicated to providing a harassment-free meetup experience for everyone, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, age or religion. We do not tolerate harassment of meetup participants in any form. Sexual language and imagery is not appropriate, including talks. Meetup participants violating these rules may be sanctioned or expelled from the meetup and future meetups.

Harassment includes offensive verbal comments related to gender, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, age, religion, sexual images in public spaces, deliberate intimidation, stalking, following, harassing photography or recording, sustained disruption of talks or other events, inappropriate physical contact, and unwelcome sexual attention. Participants asked to stop any harassing behavior are expected to comply immediately.

Sponsors are also subject to the anti-harassment policy. In particular, sponsors should not use sexualised images, activities, or other material. Organisers and helpers (including volunteers) should not use sexualised clothing/uniforms/costumes, or otherwise create a sexualised environment.

If a participant engages in harassing behavior, the meetup organisers may take any action they deem appropriate, including warning the offender or expulsion from the meetup and future meetups.

If you are being harassed, notice that someone else is being harassed, or have any other concerns, please contact the organiser immediately.

We expect participants to follow these rules at all meetups, all LeedsDevops related social events and on all online communication platforms related to LeedsDevops.

CODE OF CONDUCT I. I am an attendee at LeedsDevops, learning from and sharing with other LeedsDevops attendees in an effort to better myself and my industry. I co-create the experience with fellow attendees. I am prepared to give my energy, presence and sensitivity to creating the best possible experience for myself and others.

II. I am coming to LeedsDevops to interact with people. I understand that imagery and language which is suggestive or derogatory will offend and make people uncomfortable. I also understand that people may have boundaries and sensibilities different from my own. I will accept without question when informed that something is offensive or unacceptable in the context of the LeedsDevops meetup.

III. I will never intentionally harass or offend another attendee relating to but not exclusively: gender, sexual orientation, disability, appearance, size, race, age or religion and will not abide another attendee being harassed or offended. If I am aware that anyone is uncomfortable or unsafe, I will notify those giving offense and the LeedsDevops meetup organisers.

IV. If I am offended or harassed, I will inform people around me who make me feel safe and the meetup organisers. If I feel safe, at my discretion, I will inform those giving offense of the specific actions with the hope that the other party is well intentioned and ignorant, but I am under no obligation to do so.

V. I understand that people are different and I attempt to be forgiving of others actions at the level of their sincere intent, but my priority is protecting my safety and the safety of others. I will act without hesitation or reservation until there are no question of the safety of all parties.

VI. I trust the LeedsDevops organisers and attendees will endvevour to co-create the best possible experience for everyone involved, as I will. I believe LeedsDevops is about empowering people and I will not forget I am empowered to create a safe and nurturing environment. If I or any other attendee violates this aspect of the meetup, I expect the meetup organisers to protect the attendees by direct action, including expelling those in violation.

Contacting the Organisers

Our first speaker is the benevolent dictator and organiser of Leeds Devops Andy Burgin. Andy has spent the last year visiting and talking at Devops events around the UK, he's met some of the thought leaders in the devops field and also many people still trying to get started. Although devops is 8 years old much of it's core values, principles, techniques and history are over shadowed by talk of tools, job titles and emerging technologies. So this talk will go back to basics and explore the roots of devops and try and answer the unanswerable question "What is Devops?" - you may be surprised to find it has more to do with the 1970s classic Austin Allegro car than the latest container tech.

Our second talk is from Gwen Diagram who is a Senior Automation Tester at Sky and co-organiser of the Leeds Testing Atelier. Her talk discusses how monitoring and logging can provide vital information for all members of the Software Development team, be they functional or cross functional. We'll look at different layers of monitoring and different levels of logging, providing information on how to create logging and monitoring to build a system where the state is known.

Our headline talk is from Jon Sandles Director of Engineering and Jason Simpson Engineering Manager at Anaplan. Jon will talk about how devops is evolving at Anaplan, some of things they have learnt and hopefully share some things that should be avoided when going on a Devops journey. Then Jason will talk about what it means to be a truly autonomous development team, where Anaplan are now and where they want to be.

Again our friends from Infinity Works are sponsoring the refreshments and lodgings for the evening, ensuring there are plenty of our favorite  beverages and soft drinks in supply.

Venue

The ODI Node Leeds is situated at Munro House, on Duke Street. If you want to find out more about the ODI details can be found here

Tickets

Tickets are free and are available over on eventbrite or meetup.com

Our first speaker is Simon Davy who is a Developer at Canonical. Canonical have been on the familiar-sounding journey of evolving their fewer larger services into many smaller microservices.  A key goal in that work has been the standardisation of how their microservices are run, to combat the additional operational complexities of microservices. They wanted powerful and standardised ways to provide logging, metrics, error reporting, request tracing, tooling, versioning, security, debugging and configuration. In both development and in production. Simon will present their journey so far with this idea, covering their design goals and assumptions, and introducing Talisker, a new tool which runs their services and attempts to provide all of the above, to some degree or other.

We are delighted that Matthew Skelton of Skelton Thatcher Consulting has found time to squeeze a preview of his upcoming talk for Devops Enterprise Summit into his busy schedule. Matthew explains that for effective, modern, cloud-connected software systems we need to organise our teams in certain ways. Taking account of Conway’s Law, we look to match the team structures to the required software architecture, enabling or restricting communication and collaboration for the best outcomes. This talk will cover the basics of organisation design, exploring a selection of key team topologies and how and when to use them in order to make the development and operation of your software systems as effective as possible. The talk is based on experience helping companies around the world with the design of their teams.

We are again honored to have Infinity Works sponsor the refreshments and lodgings for the evening, ensuring there are plenty of our favorite  beverages and soft drinks in supply.

Venue

The ODI Node Leeds is situated at Munro House, on Duke Street. If you want to find out more about the ODI details can be found at http://theodi.org/nodes/leeds

Tickets

Tickets are free and are available over on eventbrite or meetup.com

We're delighted to welcome back for his third appearance at LeedsDevops Ian Masingham the Chief Evangelist EMEA Amazon Web Services. Back in November at the AWS re:Invent event in Las Vegas the latest tools and tech from Amazon were announced, Ian will give us a whistle stop tour of the new features and services.

Chris is our second speaker and works as UK Technical Lead at Rancher Labs. Rancher is a platform for deploying and managing containers. Chris will talk about the benefits of containerisation, why your organisation should have a strategy for their adoption, where to start and the gotchas to avoid. Finally Chris will demo the features of Rancher and explain how it differs from other container platforms .

We are again chuffed to have Infinity Works sponsor the refreshments and lodgings for the evening, ensuring there are plenty of our favourite beverages and soft drinks in supply.

Venue

The ODI Node Leeds is situated at Munro House, on Duke Street. If you want to find out more about the ODI details can be found at http://theodi.org/nodes/leeds

Tickets

Tickets are free and are available over on eventbrite or meetup.com

Dr Neil Richardson is a Senior Lecturer at Leeds Business School, he will be talking to us about Service Marketing. Wether you run a set of tools/platforms or you use ones provided by an internal team or a 3rd Party - it's important that there is a good vendor and customer relationship for the service to be successful. Neil will be sharing his experiences of what makes a service apealing to a customer and how you can build and maintain the relationship.

Our second talk of the evening is presented by Ed Hiley who is a Principal Systems Engineer with NHS Digital, and Dan Rathbone who is Technical Director at Infinity Works. They will be sharing a case study about a  highly resilient multi-data centre processing system utilising cloud techniques with bare metal servers. They'll cover how they built automated performance tests, an immutable infrastructure and a NoSQL data store with support for versioning data.

We are again grateful to have Infinity Works sponsor the refreshments and lodgings for the evening, ensuring there are plenty of our favourite beverages and soft drinks in supply.

Venue

The ODI Node Leeds is situated at Munro House, on Duke Street. If you want to find out more about the ODI details can be found at http://theodi.org/nodes/leeds

Tickets

Tickets are free and are available over on eventbrite or meetup.com

It's almost 8 years since the first Devops Days event and our thinking on tools, tech and culture has transformed the way modern software is built, delivered and run. But where is Devops heading? how are skills evolving ? what's the next big thing ?

Our first talk sees the welcome return of James Hall from Parallax, he'll be explaining his hands-on experience with AWS Lambda for a project that crowd-sources the UEFA 2016 Anthem. He'll explain his take on the "serverless" movement and what gotchas his team ran into and how the service scaled quite happily to thousands of concurrent users without breaking a sweat. It's not perfect for every use case but he'll discuss when and where Lambda is a good solution to real-world problems.

So having looked at an emerging technology in the Devops space, we ask a panel of experts to share their thoughs on the future of Devops skills and careers, We'll be asking:

How has the role of Devops evolved in the last 5 years

How has the Tech landscape changed in Leeds in that time ?

What are skills in demand now and what are the trends ?

What should people do to get employed or keep employable ?

Is there a skills gap and what is being done about it ?

Where is the next generation of engineers coming from ?

How will the job market and employers adapt to the changes in demand over the next 5 years ?

We'll be asking those and other searching questions to our assembeled panel of experts:

Amy DeBalsi - Founder of HERD & Leeds Digital Careers fair

Ed Marshall - Director at Infinity Works Consulting

Kirsty Styles - Head of talent and skills at TechNorth

Wendi Adams - Computer Science Lecturer at Leeds City College

Andrew Maeer - Director at Amsource Technology

We are again grateful to have Infinity Works sponsor the refreshments and lodgings for the evening, ensuring there are plenty of our favourite beverages and soft drinks in supply..

Venue

The ODI Node Leeds is situated at Munro House, on Duke Street. If you want to find out more about the ODI details can be found at http://theodi.org/nodes/leeds

Tickets

Tickets are free and are available over on eventbrite or meetup.com